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That definitely seemed like overkill and really at that point I was starting to consider just giving up on Outlook altogether. Some of the possible solutions I’d found online suggested that I create a new PST file and delete all of my accounts and re-create them in the new PST file, and then move over my messages. In fact, the infinite loop still occurred (I wasn’t really sure why it was still trying to connect to anything, but it was). I tried switching to Offline mode, but that didn’t help. I was able to see the message in the outbox but attempting to delete it did nothing, and attempts to abort sending the message resulted in an error. I downloaded MDBVU32.EXE on the advice of some other blogs, which let me view my PST file and attempt to manipulate its contents. While this loop was going on, Outlook was unusable and the Send/Receive dialog would flicker, taking focus from other windows, which basically forced me to close OULOOK.EXE from Task Manager.

Some of my online research suggested this might mean that my Address Book was out of sync with my contacts, but following the steps in that post revealed that this wasn’t my issue.

It would generate “Successful” account synchonrization messages over and over again (racking up hundreds of such messages per minute). However, this became much more of an annoyance when Outlook would, from time to time, get into some kind of an infinite loop while trying to send messages. It was italicized, and if I tried to open or delete it, it would inform me that Outlook was already trying to send the message and thus I couldn’t do anything to it. I tried to send an email on Sunday and for whatever reason it got stuck in my outbox.

Forum with some tips for trying to delete messages.

Download MDBVU32.EXE (see previous link for why).

How to troubleshoot mail stuck in Outbox in Outlook 2000.

Here are some resources that may help you if my fix does not: I found a bunch of things on the Interwebs that looked like they might be useful, but none of the fixes there did the trick for me (of the ones I tried – some fixes were more extreme than I wanted to attempt). Last week I encountered a problem with Outlook that I’m happy to report I’ve just solved.

Outlook read receipt wrong time office 365