Sending e-mails

[The Tiggster]

I Use Microsoft Outlook for sending & recieving e-mails. I have 3 seperate accounts with different ISP's that usually work well. One account however is insiting in sending an e-mail that doesn't exist. As a result the send & receive progress is constantly going & popping up with an error box.

There is no e-mail in the outbox, so what could it be trying to send & how do I stop it? I've tried the cancel e-mail option but as soon as I need to send legitimate e-mails again it trys to send the phantom e-mail.

Un & re-installing the account has also made no difference. Any help anyone?

Thanks!

[stevie21]

If the email is attempting to be sent from your default email address in Outlook then the worst case scenario is that you have a virus which is trying to email itself somewhere.
In the unlikely event that this is the case, you should scan your PC with your own antivirus prog and also do a free online scan at one of the many websites which offer such a service:
e.g. http://housecall.trendmicro.com/

[Potatoman]

I has this problem once. Scanning for virus and spyware didnt do anything. Also, my Outlook sometimes wouldnt send the email, just hold on to it in the Sent items folder.

[The Tiggster]

Thanks guy's. The problem is there isn't an e-mail in my out box to send. It's a phantom e-mail that is attempting to be sent from an old e-mail account (which is not default) but that I still occasionally have e-mails sent to.

My virus software (Norton) has scanned & shown nothing.

Any other advice?

[Potatoman]

If you have Norton installed, normally a box pops up when u send a mail to scan it first. I had a friend who downloaded an illegal copy and had your problem; about 35,000 were being 'sent' but there was no data leaving her pc. It even happened when not connected! - So she stole another one and that was clean! Iv youve scanned yr system, theres probly no real worry. But personally, i wouldnt trust it.

[The Tiggster]

Thanks Potatoman, my copy of Norton is 100% Kosha so it can't be that.

It's not a major problem I just find it annoying when this error keeps popping up to tell me that it can't send this phantom e-mail.

Aaagghh technology!

[stevedigz]

Have you tried going to the home page of your ISP?
I had a problem like this, I went to the Services section of my ISP home page, then to web mail where I was able to view all incoming and outgoing mail and in my case I deleted the lot while I was in this view. This cleared a problem incoming message and the problem was cleared. Hope this helps.

[The Tiggster]

Still the same, but thanks anyway stevedigz !