Emails sent on the New Outlook application are saved in the draft folder and not sent

I was informed by a high level Microsoft employee last week that this is not a bug, but done by design. They didn't get into it any further from there other than to say that the messages will send after a period of time, but it's not instantaneous anymore. This only affects the "New Outlook" desktop client and the web version. The regular client32 version is still unaffected by this change.

Bryan,

I did remove and reinstall but it didn’t make a difference.

I’ve been struggling with this for months.

Seems to be an Outlook 2024 issue. Everything works fine with the Windows 11 mail client.

Thanks,

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I've had this problem since February - I'll compose and send a message, only to realise hours later that it never sent and was sitting in my 'drafts' folder. If I try to send it again from there it never goes, I generally have to copy the text, paste it into a new email and send that. Some days it hardly happens, today it took me four tries to send a four-word email. Incredibly frustrating. I'm in the habit of checking the drafts folder several times a day to make sure there aren't emails sitting in there that I thought I'd send. Would appreciate some response from microsoft on this, even if it's just to confirm it's a known issue and is being worked on.

Same problem. Random new messages and replies get stuck in drafts. Error message, saying in cannot send.

Very annoying and dangerous if you don't check. To solve this problem I copy whole email content of the message and paste into a new message.

It seems to be a known problem and should be fixed.

I did reinstall the previous version of Outlook and it works fine so maybe try that. My issue was the same for my IP email address as well as my Outlook email address.

Thanks for replying and the confirming information that is is an Outlook 2024 issue.