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"The operation failed." Sending email using Contact Items in Outlook 2003
I am using Microsoft Outlook 2003 to send a message to recipients in a Contact Items list in the BCC field. When I hit send Outlook reports "The operation failed." and doesn't provide any further information. Is there any possible way to find out why Outlook is failing, a possible log file?
Things I have tried:
1) Turned off Microsoft Word as the default editor.
2) Tried sending to fewer contacts in the BCC field, sometimes sends, sometimes doesn't-- there is no pattern. Could there possibly be some corrupted entries in the Contact Items that I cannot see?
3) Checked Exchange Server settings for Maximum KB per message and Maximum recipients per message.
Other things to take into consideration:
1) We have just migrated from Exchange 2000 to Exchange 2003.
2) We have just updated all are copies of Microsoft Office 2003 via officeupdate.microsoft.com
3) The email is in HTML format and contains 2 attachments totallying < 2 MB.
I have read most of the solutions regarding the "The operation failed.' error message however none of them have helped solve this bizarre issue. Any help would be greatly apreeciated, I am in a bind to have my fellow co-workers send out an email to several hundred contacts but were receiving this unhelpful error message. Thanks!
Things I have tried:
1) Turned off Microsoft Word as the default editor.
2) Tried sending to fewer contacts in the BCC field, sometimes sends, sometimes doesn't-- there is no pattern. Could there possibly be some corrupted entries in the Contact Items that I cannot see?
3) Checked Exchange Server settings for Maximum KB per message and Maximum recipients per message.
Other things to take into consideration:
1) We have just migrated from Exchange 2000 to Exchange 2003.
2) We have just updated all are copies of Microsoft Office 2003 via officeupdate.microsoft.com
3) The email is in HTML format and contains 2 attachments totallying < 2 MB.
I have read most of the solutions regarding the "The operation failed.' error message however none of them have helped solve this bizarre issue. Any help would be greatly apreeciated, I am in a bind to have my fellow co-workers send out an email to several hundred contacts but were receiving this unhelpful error message. Thanks!
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Just as another note about this; We run PGP for our Outlook clients. Stoping the service and then closing / opening Oulook helped one user. Not sure if this is a fix, but at least helped out for the day.
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I had this same error in Outlook 2007, I only had one message that would not send.
I appears that outlook did not like one of the addresses from the N2K cache (outlook address cache that populates as you type from your history). I entered the addresses manually and the email sent properly.
I'm guessing that one of the addresses in the N2K cache was corrupt, good think I only had to retype 3 addresses.
I had this same error in Outlook 2007, I only had one message that would not send.
I appears that outlook did not like one of the addresses from the N2K cache (outlook address cache that populates as you type from your history). I entered the addresses manually and the email sent properly.
I'm guessing that one of the addresses in the N2K cache was corrupt, good think I only had to retype 3 addresses.
i have tried creating a new profile as well but it didn't work...i need to send out our weekly newsletter and still no success how to solve this problem
I am getting a similar issue in Outlook 2007 with only one distribution list. I have recreated the list and still get the Error "The operation failed" when trying to send. I have corrected the invalid email address in the list but still get the same error.
Found my issue was with a recipients address that had a ' in her name.
Odd thing with this was if I emailed only her the msg sent with out error but if I add her to the DL I get the error again.
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