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Hi everyone - has anyone had issues with sending emails using Outlook 365 for Macs? Especially a red error box that appears at the bottom (attached) and says "Message failed to send Open" The email is then stuck in drafts with the option to continue editing but it is simply frozen in drafts and the only way is to delete and try again. Alternatively, you can go to the webmail version of outlook, find the drafts folder and send from there. This has been happening on/off for several weeks now, no pattern, just happens occasionally.
This version of Outlook 365 is absolutely **** with so many issues
Using older versions of Outlook for Mac for personal email and calendar
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Yup, I keep finding them in my drafts hours later when I'm sat wondering why someone hasn't responded. It's causing major issues.
If I load the drafts folder on my phone (Outlook app) or OWA and send from there it's fine so it's 100% an Outlook software issue.
Hello,
I recently started having this same issue on Mac. I haven't canvassed all of our Mac users, so I'm unsure how widespread it is at our company, but this is super annoying. I can go get my draft on the web and send it.. but the issue comes when I hit send, then move on to the next thing and DON'T NOTICE that my email didn't leave my drafts. This is going to bite me on something super critical at some point.
Version 16.86 (24050613)
Same issue here. On a Mac. Only temporary fix is once I get that error I just go to Outlook Web. It saves in my drafts instantly so I just go to my Drafts and hit send from the web and continue on with my life.
What's annoying though, is if you send it from the Web, the email doesn't show up in your sent on the Mac Outlook App...only if you look in your Sent folder on the Web.
Super frustrating...
Same issue here. Cant get it to stop.
Getting this constantly today on Version 16.84 (24041420) and Mac OS 14.4.1 (23E224).
Seems to work after closing and reopening outlook