Have to send email twice in Outlook Express!

...the message states: "Your mail was unable to be sent because your connection was unexpectedly disconnected. Please go into your Send box and resend it from there."

I go into the Send box as directed and the email will go from there.

Any ideas on how to fix?

Thanks!

Assuming you're on dial-up is your connection disconnected when this message appears? Easy to check in the connection properties in the task bar. And it was connected before? Then the question becomes: when does it disconnect. Investigate and tell more.

Kees

...and all the lights are on on the DSL modem. I have asked ppl whom I have sent emails to if they are receiving one or two emails, and they tell me that they are receiving two. So even though I am getting the error message that the email is not being sent, apparently it is being sent the first time. So now the question is, why am I receiving this error message if the mail is in fact being sent?

Thanks again for your help!

Outlook Express isn't part of MS Office. It's far better if you pose your question as has developed in the Computer Help forum. Much more people there than here, so much more help. It might be some setting, but it's strange.

Experiment: try to send with a bcc to yourself. It might be intercepted by your ISP (no need to send to the sender), but just as well it might arrive. Using an alias or another email-address (make one at hotmail or yahoo if you only have one) will surely work. Then you can check for yourself that it really arrives the first time. Just to be sure.


Kees