How to Solve Email Problems in Outbox ?

A corrupted PST file is often attempted to repair using Inbox Repair Tool (scanpst.exe). The tool is included in all the installation options of Microsoft Office Outlook. But if it fails to fix the corruption, you are suggested to look for powerful commercial applications to repair the file.

For example, consider a situation when you send an email in Microsoft Outlook. You notice that the mail is not moved to Sent Items folder, as expected, but instead gets stuck in Outbox folder. This might happen with each email that you send.

Cause

Some typical reasons causing this issue are:

1.You open and close the email message when it is still in Outbox folder. Outlook attempts to deliver the message after establishing a proper connection with mail server. If you open and close before it actually has been sent, you change its status.
2.You are running Outlook in offline mode
3.You have installed an outdated or incompatibile add-in
4.You used an old account to reply a message. It particularly occurs when you have an old email and have changed the email accounts after receiving that email. By default, Outlook will try to send the reply using the same previous non-existing account and not the current account.
5.The Outlook Personal Folder or Personal Address Book file is damaged


Solution

You can use these solutions to fix the current issue:

1.To correct the changed mail status, you should open the email message and click on its toolbar to Send
2.Clear the Work Offline check box listed in File menu. Use Send/Receive option to send the email message
3.Use Add-In Manager to deactivate the add-in
4.Move the email message from Outbox to Inbox and send a new message to the recipient.
5.Repair the corrupted .pst file using Inbox Repair Tool for MS outlook. Locate the tool with name 'scanpst.exe' using Windows Serach option and browse to the affected .pst file. Start the repair process and restart Outlook. Try to duplicate the above behavior. If it is still an issue, you need a third-party PST repair tool. These software can work even when the Inbox Repair Tool (scanpst.exe) cannot do so.

Outlook PST Repair is an unmatched Outlook Inbox Repair utility to repair and restore corrupted Outlook PST file. It is a safe repair product that works in each instance of PST file corruption. This Inbox Repair Tool is compatible with Outlook 2010, 2007, 2003, 2002 and 2000. It can restore all file contents including emails, notes, journals, appointments, contacts and others. You can use it securely for cases of Inbox Repair Tool (Scanpst.exe) failure.

Inbox Repair Tool Fails to Fix 'An error has occurred which caused...'

Most of the corruption issues encountered in Microsoft Outlook PST files occur due to power failure, not closing the application properly or Outlook errors. The built-in utility, scanpst.exe, is competent to fix minor corruptions with the file. However, most of the PST file corruption problems cannot be resolved by this Inbox Repair Tool. To solve them, you must use a third-party product that could scan the corrupted file efficiently and restore it at a safe location.

To exemplify, consider a situation when you to try start Outlook or open the .pst file, but it reports corruption errors. To repair the file, you run scanpst.exe tool, but it too fails. You encounter an error message, which is similar to below:

“An error has occurred which caused the scan to be stopped. No changes have been made to the scanned file.”

Cause

Two possible reasons for this error to occur are:

1.You are using a Outlook 97-2002 PST file. Scanpst cannot work for the file that is bigger than 2 GB in size.
2.PST is severely damaged and cannot be repaired using Inbox Repair Tool.

Solution

You should consider these suggestions to repair such a damaged PST file:

1. An oversized and corrupted PST file should be first truncated using 2 GB Truncation (Pst2gb.exe) utility. Thus, you can download the tool and use it to crop the file under 2 GB. You can then try to repair the corrupted file by running scanpst.

2. If you are using a Outlook 2003 or 2007 PST file or 2 GB file size limitation is not the issue, you should opt for better solutions of PST recovery. (However, if a valid backup is available, you should delete the damaged PST file and restore from it). There are several third-party solutions available that can repair the damaged PST file.

PST fix tools come with interactive design and advanced scanning algorithms to examine the corrupted PST file efficiently. The tools can work even if Inbox Repair Tool fails to do so. Such software provide you advanced file repair options that prove safe too.

Outlook PST Repair is a fully-featured Inbox Repair Tool with powerful features to repair damaged or corrupted PST file. It is a safe tool with support to Outlook 2010, 2007, 2003, 2002 and 2000. The software is easy-to-use with self-descriptive interface and can repair while Inbox Repair Tool failure. It recovers and restores all PST file objects at a safe location.