Outgoing mail gets stuck in my Mail program...

I was sending a photo file to someone when I realized that it was larger than I had intended it to be (about 6MB) and so I deleted it from the outbox while it was in mid-send. Now, whenever I send an email, it just goes to the outbox and stays there, stuck. Is the large photo file clogging the way or something?? How do I clear up my outgoing mail route?
Help :P
Mac Book Pro Mac OS X (10.4.6)

You would be better posting your query in the Mail application forum...
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=753
This one is for the mail services part of OS X Server - so folk do not necessarily know the ins and out of the Mail client.

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Desperate user need help. My GPIB instrument get stuck with my labview program frequently

Hello to all labview users,
i am a beginner in using labview. I am currently writting a labview program to automatically control a digital control rotator HD201e and a network analyzer 8720a to work with the anechoic chamber. The program receives an initial position, amount of increment and # of steps. My program will then ask the controller to rotate to the initial position and at the meantime, the program will monitor the position of the rotator to ensure the requested position is reached. After that, at the position, the program will ask the NA to perform a reading of the measurement. Once the reading is done, the program will ask the controller to rotate to the next position and does a reading of the measurement and so on.
My program seems to be able to perform the tasks; however, the dig.controller part seems to get stuck around 50% of the time when running the program. Sometimes, even the controller receives the requested position (can be seen from the lcd screen of the controller), the rotator just simply would not rotate; also, sometimes, the controller just simply does not respond when sending the command of moving a position, as in the debug mode (the one with a lightbulb), i see that i got "ok" on all the blocks in the writing portion ofthe program, but the controller just doesnt seem to receive the position (as seen no new position received from the lcd screen) and the cursor on the lcd screen blinks weirdly, due to that problem, my program will then get stuck in an infinite loop.....
Usually, that problem occurs after few positions have been reached.....
so, when that happens, i have to stop my program and re-run it. that means the program will have to re-do the measurement that were read previously....
sometimes i have to stop and re-run my program several times to get all the measurement of all the positions done.....so...that bug renders that program to be an unefficient program.
I have been trying to resolve that bug for weeks...but no success....i have tried to put some wait time between each block....result is not much different...
I have also tried putting "clear" block before and after the "write" block.....same problem.....
I have heard that the serial GPIB "flush" block may help...but i tried..but it seems the controller doesnt recognize/accept flush....
i have also tried using the "Visa open" and "Visa close" block to see if ithat reduces the stucking thing....but seems that the controller can still get stuck....
i have also even tried using "lock asyn" and "unlock asyn" block...but didnt seem to work....
Has anyone experienced such problem.? Is it a known problem with some gpib instrument?
Is there any discrepancy or bugs in my program that i am unaware of that causes this problem?
Any advice and or opinion would be greatly appreciated....
PS: i attached the controller part of my program and the overall program
desperate happyguy......
Happy guy
~ currently final year undergraduate in Electrical Engr. Graduating soon! Yes!
~ currently looking for jobs : any position related to engineering, labview, programming, tech support would be great.
~ humber learner of LabVIEW lvl: beginner-intermediate
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hi xseadog
i got what you meant about the gpib reference
actually, that final frame works because the gpib reference is already done inside that subvi.
but my problem doesnt arise from that. most of the time ive seen, it arises between the writing frame and the while loop frame. as i mentionned, sometimes. the controller just simply doesnt rotate even i can see the requested position display on the controller lcd screen; also sometimes, just the controller is stuck without acknowledging the write position command. but in labview...while in debug mode. it is shown ok on the block.
Happy guy
~ currently final year undergraduate in Electrical Engr. Graduating soon! Yes!
~ currently looking for jobs : any position related to engineering, labview, programming, tech support would be great.
~ humber learner of LabVIEW lvl: beginner-intermediate
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Cursor for update get stuck while running the program

Dear
i am using below mention program but work and get stuck. please any idea how can reslove this.
declare
l_segment1 VARCHAR (100);
CURSOR req_number_cur
IS
SELECT TO_CHAR (current_max_unique_identifier + 1)
FROM po_unique_identifier_control
WHERE table_name = 'PO_REQUISITION_HEADERS'
FOR UPDATE OF current_max_unique_identifier;
BEGIN
fnd_client_info.set_org_context (101);
mo_global.set_policy_context ('S', 101);
dbms_output.put_line('testing');
begin
OPEN req_number_cur;
FETCH req_number_cur
INTO l_segment1;
IF req_number_cur%NOTFOUND
THEN
--do something
NULL;
--insert statement
UPDATE po_unique_identifier_control
SET current_max_unique_identifier = current_max_unique_identifier + 1
WHERE CURRENT OF req_number_cur;
END IF;
CLOSE req_number_cur;
end;
END;
---thanks
appreciate you help.

Do you realise that this is a flawed approach?
Performance in a multi-user and multi-process database system is about the ability to do things simultaneously.
Simple analogy. You have a McDonalds. You have a 100 customers wanting to be serviced. What will be better? Having the customer all queuing in a single long queue to be serviced by a single cashier?
Or 10 cashiers, 10 queues, and the ability to service 10 customers at the same time?
It should be very obvious that the ability to service 10 customers at the same time is a lot better than only servicing a single customer at a time.
Likewise, Oracle can service 1000's of different sessions all inserting data.
Now you want to create a single queue for all insert transactions - and give each one a unique and sequential identifier. This will literally kill performance. It will turn a 32 CPU server into a 1 CPU desktop as all that extra CPU power can never be used as all the sessions need to get into a single queue and be serviced one at a time.
Also consider the functionality of your approach. Session 1 gets a 5 unique identifiers as it wants to insert 5 rows. Session 2 gets the next 3 sequence numbers. Session 1 aborts and rolls back its transaction (numerous practical reasons exist for why this can and do happen).
What is the status now in the database table? 5 numbers are now "missing".
So despite your severely flawed attempt to enforce serialisation and sequential numbering, it will fail. So why then even contemplate turning the Oracle database from being able to service multiple concurrent sessions at the same time, to a slow single-user/single-process database that can only service a single request at a time?
The CORRECT approach in Oracle is to use a sequence generator (see the CREATE SEQUENCE command in the <i>SQL Reference Guide</i>). Use it. Do not try a flawed approach that WILL fail and that WILL have a very severe performance impact.

Outgoing emails get stuck in outbox-WHY?-help me doctor!!

looked at connection doctor -all is fine, tried sending test to myself-is stuck in outbox, small picture files are also getting stuck there-2mb
previous to that I have noticed that emails are coming in blocks/ pairing up with previous emails from the inbox-why again, I ask!??
Message was edited by: armchairtraveller

AAAHH HAA; I GOT IT!!!!!!!
The problem is your CONTACTS. STOP deleteing and playing around with the deleting the outbox, that ain't it. I found a post from some guy named Russ who is a Microsoft MVP, and the issue is that some of your contacts are messed up. Its got to do with the display of your contacts, and adding them using a Phone/PDA. Easiest fix is when this problem happens do the following: 1. Click File and Work Offline; 2. Go to the Outbox and open the email; 3. Double click EACH email address you are trying to send it to (when you double click; it SHOULD open the contact card, BUT eventually you will get one with an error). Obviously the one/many with the error are the problem. Just go into your contacts and either fix the "DISPLAY AS" blank or just simply create a new contact card for the person.
Then try to resend: VOILA!!! Problem solved. I have done MUCH testing on this, and spent about 5-HOURS. Thanks MS. There are a TON of postings all over the web for this, and HOPEFULLY people will find this post.
***The problem has something to do with importing contacts via an iPhone or ANY phone for that matter. Its not just the iPhone, even Windows Mobile phones have the issue.
After you recreate the Contact the messages will not be stuck in the Outbox anymore. If it happens again, just follow the directions cause you probably have another contact that has an issue.

10.5.3 can't turn off my mac and programs get stuck

I've installed the latest OS X Leopard update (10.5.3) and since then I'm having serious problems with my Macbook Pro. The iMac of my girlfriend has the update as well but everything is working fine there.
Problem 1: Can't turn off my mac
When I want to turn off my mac I end up with my background and a little spinning wheel. This goes on forever, it seems my mac gets stuck at that point.
Problem 2: Programs get stuck
Since 10.5.3 programs get stuck much faster and when they do Force Quit doesn't work anymore. The program gets stuck and restarting the program can't be done.
Affected programs: Mail, Safari, Camino, NewsFire, Dock
Does anyone has the same problems or does anyone knows what's going on?
My Macbook Pro:
MacBook Pro 15"
Intel Core Duo 2.16 GHz
2 GB RAM

HI Guust - yeah having a similar problem with an application freezing, although it is just Photoshop CS2 and I can force quite after 2 goes though!! I hope you get a result from this forum - I have been a mac user for 12 years plus and yes there were always problems with updates but never quite as dramatic as this and there were normally fairly easy solutions!
GOOD LUCK!

Messages getting stuck in tcp_local Channel

Hi All
Version
Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.1 HotFix 0.01 (built Jun 24 2004)
libimta.so 6.1 HotFix 0.01 (built 12:52:04, Jun 24 2004)
SunOS dakota 5.9 Generic_112233-12 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V440
Background
In the last week we've been experiencing problems with outgoing messages getting stuck in our tcp_local channel. They can stay for up to 4 hours before dequeuing. We plan to install Patch 116568 which is the latest core patch for our version of the Messaging Server.
To date we haven't experienced any DNS problems and have not made any configuration changes.
However I was just wondering if anyone had come across this type of problem before? We're hoping the patch will resolve the issue but would be interested in other alternatives.
Thanks in advance
Paul

You'll have to do more research before I can offer help. . .
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Some outside domains are always slow. If you have many messages queued for such outside domains, they can involve the whole server, and cause mails to queue up behind them.
Many installations create a new channel, such as, "tcp_slow", and use rewrite rules to move messages addressed to these domains (aol, hotmail, earthlink, etc.) into this separate channel. You can "tune" that channel differently, and messages there won't block tcp_local.

How can I get outgoing mail in Mail program to work consistently?

Some times using Mail messages can be sent immediately on any of my several accounts including a gmail account. Other times no mail can be sent perhaps until the next day. It just read sending. If I transfer my outgoing gmail messages to gmail on safari I can send it immediately. I am changing no settings and incoming mail is coming in without difficulty. This is most frustrating if I am trying to response to a message and I can't get it out until the next day. Any suggestions? Thank you

I have had sbcglobal dsl and now Uverse and periodically have had the problem of outgoing mail being rejected by the smtp server. The problem has been changes made at the server by the isp. I make no changes and things go from working to not working. Over the last 6 years I have gotten pretty good and "fixing" the problem by deleting accounts and reentering the data in the Mail program and at the AT&T website. A process they call verification is involved. Now it is broken and it is unfixable.
I have spent the better part of the last 3 days trying to get a third party or vanity email address to verify. The panels say I have successfully verified my address but it will not send. Along the way I have read a lot of stuff on various forums and am thinking that the issue may be the same between at&t and other big providers... they shut down 3rd party address on smtp in their war on spam.
So we called att support and were told we would have to pay for premium support. We asked instead to cancel our service. We signed up with a local dsl service (Houston) and discovered to our dismay that DSL does not equal DSL. The local service has never been able to swap over a Uverse dsl service. So we were back to Uverse to have Uverse dsl canceled and regular at&t dsl installed.... it is like dealing with two different companies. Along the way we discover that at our location we will lose the 6 Mbps service and only be able to get 1.5 Mbps... our modem will have to be changed out and at this point we are sad and weakened. The Uverse rep offers to lower the premium support charge from $30 to $15 so we gave in and signed up for it. The next day I get the very polite and seemingly competent Paulo on the line. We get set up for him to take over the cursor and we start reviewing my settings. Bottomline. I had all my settings perfect... practice, practice etc. They were absolutely correct on every panel. Paulo got to see that the verification does not work and that it is not possible to set up a "reply to" third party address that will work. Paulo was very nice and very baffled. He invited me to call back but he really had no idea about what to do to get things working.
By this time I am feeling pretty defeated and trapped... I cannot reasonably move to another provider and no one at AT&T can make it work. There is a happy ending for me in this though and this could work for someone else which is why I am making this long post. My vanity email is from an email forwarding service where I have had an account for 12 years. My isps change as my job has moved me overseas and back and across the US several times... my email address does not change. The company I use is pobox.com I was looking around at their website and noticed that my service includes use of their smtp server. I printed off the instructions, which they have for about 20 mail clients, pc, mac, et al and within 10 minutes I was sending mail from [email protected]. I got no error messages and when the mail arrived it showed from [email protected] and when we replied to that email it put [email protected] in the to:. Man am I happy! This fix did not cost me incremental $ and it was easy. The service costs $20 per year for a single year subscription... I have a 5 yr which runs me $15 per year. There are other benefits to the service... decent spam filtering and url forwarding.
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My outgoing mail gets stuck???, my outgoing mail gets stuck???

what to do, when your outgoing mail gets stuck in the outbox, the server comes up as offline...grr

I had this problem too but I fixed it today.
Go to the mail menu preferences.
Click on account in question.
Select the outgoing SMTP mail server (the one offline), this has a drop down list, click on the edit server list.
Click on the advanced button.
Make sure use default port is checked.
Make sure SSL is unchecked (unless your provider requires it, mine does not work with it checked).
Have authentication set to password.
User name should be your email address for that account.
Make sure correct password is entered (for some strange reason my password box was blank on this account).
Push the ok button.
For me the SSL box was checked and the password was missing. This is strange to me considering I have unchecked the SSL Box on the mail preference advance page. Also, I went through the complete set up account when I first created the account, why was my outgoing server password box empty?
I hope this helps.
Here is a link to some visual aids with the steps from my ISP
http://support.knology.net/content/smtpauth/smtpredirect.cfm

From time to time, my outgoing mail messages get stuck in the "outbox". I'm having trouble resolving the problem.

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Outgoing mail gets stuck in outbox?

Using MacMail. When sending mail, it seems to be getting stuck in the outbox for a long time. It gets sent to "onmymac" rather than the outbox for the particualr mail I'm using.

The solution below was found at: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6351214
It appears to have solved the issue for me.
Linc Davis
Jun 9, 2014 9:53 PM
Re: Mail is getting stuck in my outbox?
in response to Hydro99
Please follow these directions to delete the Mail "sandbox" folders. In OS X 10.9 there are two sandboxes, while in 10.8 there is only one. If you're running a version older than 10.8, this comment isn't applicable.
Back up all data.
Triple-click anywhere in the line below on this page to select it:
~/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail
Right-click or control-click the highlighted line and select
Services ▹ Reveal
from the contextual menu.* A Finder window should open with a folder named "com.apple.mail" selected. If it does, move the selected folder—not just its contents—to the Desktop. Leave the Finder window open for now.
Log out and log back in. Launch Mail and test. If the problem is resolved, you may have to recreate some of your Mail settings. You can then delete the folder you moved and close the Finder window.
This action will delete any custom Mail stationery that you have created. If you want to preserve it, ask for instructions.
If you still have the problem, quit Mail again and put the folder back where it was, overwriting the one that may have been created in its place. Repeat with this line:
~/Library/Containers/com.apple.MailServiceAgent
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My gmail account receives mail, but will not send, forward, or reply...it gets stuck in the spin and then I have to force quick firefox.

My gmail accounts receives mail, but will not send, reply or forward. Also cannot open settings. It gets stuck in spin mode.
I worked with an apple tech, tried several things, and then she suggested I contact Mozilla support.

Hey Butterworth,
You may need to use the information in this article to help you troubleshoot the issue with your outgoing server:
OS X Mail: Troubleshooting sending and receiving email messages
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts3276
Thanks for coming to the Apple Support Communities!
Cheers,
Braden

Help with e-mail getting stuck in Mail outbox

I recently ran into a problem where all the e-mails I tried to send in Mail got stuck in my outbox and were not sent. After reading posts on the Apple Support Communities website and doing some troubleshooting of my own within Mail, I reached a solution to the problem. When I first realized I could not send e-mail using a certain e-mail account of mine, since all e-mails were getting stuck in the outbox folder, I checked my available servers. I did this by opening the preferences window, clicking on the accounts tab, then clicking on the outgoing server pull-down menu. In the pull-down, I saw that the server I wanted to use was listed as "offline." To fix this problem and get the server back online so that I could send e-mail (as I could with my other account that was not listed as "offline"), I selected the outgoing server pull-down once again. In the menu, I selected "edit server list." On the page that pops up afterward, I highlighted the server I wanted to use. This way, I could see the information associated with the server. With this information in front of me, I realized that for some reason there was no password entered in the password field even though the "Authentication" setting was set to password. I entered my password associated with the e-mail account I was having problems with and "walla." The server was back online. I could send e-mails again without them getting stuck in the outbox!
This problem popped out all of a sudden for me and got me quite frustrated. I hope that this brief walk-through helps out some people out there having a similar issue. Best of luck!

That's one of the best walkthrough's i've read, thankyou!
However, I often have email stuck in the out box. And that's not comfortable… or good for communicating to clients.
In the hope that this may help someone:
Internet Connection Problem
A bit random but I found that by keeping an eye on the networked computers or the Dropbox icon tells me the health of my network or the internet connection that's causing a problem and all of the time, it's the Ethernet.
If networked computers are up and on the internet, but my PM isn't:
Solution:
1) Refresh the DHCP license.
2) Switch off the ethernet under system preferences/network then switch on again to refresh the IP addres.
Every time I do this, I find Apple Mail reconnecting straight away. I don't know why this happens.

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I don't know what Apple did today, or very recently, but my Snow Leopard systems can no longer get to my email account, which is a MobileMe to iCloud conversion. Its been working just fine prior.
It looks like the server names for MobileMe dropped off -- either a screw up or permanently. Here's what I did.
Firstly, the server names have changed, from "mail.me.com" to "imap.mail.me.com", and "smtp.me.com" to "smtp.mail.me.com".
So, if you go into your preferences in the Mail program, if you had previously set up a MobileMe account, you will notice that it will not let you just punch in new values. What to do? If you try to create a new account with same email address, it won't let you! Should you delete the account and then create a new one? I felt quite uncomfy doing this, as I have huge amounts of email stored in various boxes.
Being a geek, here's what I did instead. Closed the Mail program. Go to the preferences file for it, which is the Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist file. Edit the file (with TextEdit or Plist Editor). Find the item 'MailAccounts". Find the account that has your "@mac.com" or "@me.com" address. Change the AccountType item from "iToolsAccount" to "IMAPAccount". Save the file.
You can now relaunch the Mail app, go into the prefs and correct the incoming and outgoing server names as mentioned above.
Hope this helps someone!
And I hope, that with all the bucks Apple has, they actually learn how to support their stuff that is older than a week!
Cheers,
-Rick

It should be at the far right of the New Message pane. You might need to enlarge your window. If not, do View > Customize Toolbar to put the icon where you want it.

Mail gets 'stuck' doing a send & receive

Hi,
Since upgrading to Mac OS 10.6.5, Mail regularly gets 'stuck' doing a send and receive. I have three IMAP mail accounts in Mail: one MobileMe and two GMail. I can't send any mail (messages get stuck in the Outbox). No new mail comes in. I can't Quit Mail. I can only Force Quit Mail (although the Force Quit app does NOT say that Mail is not responding - it thinks everything is OK). I use three Mail plugins: MailActOn, MailTags and Mail Attachments Iconizer. Neither restarting Mail or restarting my Mac helps - Mail just gets stuck again. I know it's an issue with the Mail software because other clients (e.g. Mail on iPhone and iPad) access my IMAP mailboxes just fine.
Here are some screenshots...
First, the Inbox and Sent folders have a continuously spinning wheel:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/310720/spinning.jpg
Second, when I open Mail's Activity Viewer, you can see a whole heap of frozen processes (if I click any of the red "stop signs", they won't stop):
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/310720/activity.jpg
Does anyone have any tips?
Thanks,
Greg

After analysing Mail's Activity Viewer messages I thought perhaps Mail was getting stuck when downloading messages from my two POP accounts. I logged into both accounts via webmail and deleted the messages in there. Volia! Mail is now unstuck. This is clearly a serious bug in the program - why should a problem with messages in POP mailboxes cause the entire application (and all IMAP accounts) to freeze?
Cheers,
Greg

Mail in Lion - Emails Get Stuck in Outbox

I just got a brand new MacbookAIr with Lion preinstalled. I have three different email accounts (Exchange, MobileMe and Gmail). When I send an email, from any of the three accounts, it gets stuck in the Outbox for an extended period of time. By closing and reopening Mail, or by deleted and resending the email, eventually it will get sent, but this is crazy.
I called APL-CARE yesterday and the told me because I was in a hotel, the hotel may be blocking some ports. Sounds hard to believe, especially because the mail eventually goes out. Today I am in a different hotel (different chain, etc.) and am having the exact same problem. This can not be a policy of hotels these days, can it?
Has anyone else had this issue with Lion? I had been using Mail with these three accounts on Snow for a long time and its worked fine - never an issue.
I hope I'm not the only one with this issue.
David

Hi,
Thanks for Diane's suggestion. If it still doesn't work, I suggest you post the question in Office for Mac forum to get more specific support:
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/mac
The reason why we recommend posting appropriately is you will get the most qualified pool of respondents, and other partners who read the forums regularly can either share their knowledge or learn from your interaction with us. Thank you for your understanding.
Regards,
Melon Chen
TechNet Community Support
It's recommended to download and install
Configuration Analyzer Tool (OffCAT), which is developed by Microsoft Support teams. Once the tool is installed, you can run it at any time to scan for hundreds of known issues in Office
programs.

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