Windows Live Mail strange notice

[Gloria E]

Just now when I closed Live Mail a message appeared that read: When you send email messages, it will be saved to your Outbox folder and will be sent the next time messages are sent and received." I closed the email client.

Another notice appeared, right after it was closed, that said: You have unsent mail in your outbox. Do you want to send them now?

I am using WLM 2011 (Build 15.4.3555.0308.

Has anyone seen such a notice and why has this started happening?

Gloria E

[HansV]

Open Windows Live Mail.
Do you see "Working Offline" in the lower right corner? If so, click Go Online in the Home tab of the ribbon.

[DaveA]

What are the settings in "Options, then the Send Tab"?

[Gloria E]

Open Windows Live Mail.
Do you see "Working Offline" in the lower right corner? If so, click Go Online in the Home tab of the ribbon.

I didn't notice is working offline was in the window at the time of receiving that message. It says working online now, I'll take notice if it happens again and make the appropriate changes.

So simple to fix if you only knew what to look for.

Thanks Hans, one more thing I learned how to do.

[Gloria E]

What are the settings in "Options, then the Send Tab"?

All 5 are ticked under Settings, so that couldn't have been the cause. That message hasn't appeared again. I hope it was just one of those one time things that happen every once in a while.

[Leif]

I would expect you to get warnings like that if you close your email client with something in your Outbox, regardless of whether you are off-line or on-line.

If you were sending a large email that might take (say) 5-10 seconds to upload, it is quite easy to click on Send and close your client before sending is completed.

[Gloria E]

I would expect you to get warnings like that if you close your email client with something in your Outbox, regardless of whether you are off-line or on-line.

If you were sending a large email that might take (say) 5-10 seconds to upload, it is quite easy to click on Send and close your client before sending is completed.

I don't remember how large the email was, but it's possible that it was a large one. Next time I will take notice of how large the object I was sending is before I click Send and close WLM. Now that I think about it, I believe I was forwarding a newspaper article that was quite large.

Thanks for the heads up.