How to Fix Send/Receive Message Errors in Outlook?
If sending or receiving of Microsoft Outlook emails suddenly freeze and Outlook seems to be crash, then it’s a sign of error occurrence in Outlook. Along with a crash, it’s also shows various kinds of errors messages on the screen like “The server could not be found”, 0x800ccc79, Error code: 0x8004210b etc. In worst cases, Outlook does not allow users to access it.
There is Couple of reasons due to which Outlook’s users encounter errors. These errors can be a reason for further damage and corruption of Outlook PST file and others important associated items such as calendars, contacts, attachments and much more.
Might be, lots of users not aware about these errors, their reasons and specially one “How to fix them by following different instructions and by using inbuilt utilities of Microsoft.
We can solve these issues by following a bunch of methods provided by Microsoft. But Before all of that, the user should know deeply about errors (codes) and reason behind these errors.
There are more than dozen of errors which generally occurred in Outlook and lists of them are:
MS-Outlook Error messages along with error codes:
Fix or Resolve Outlook Errors Codes by various ways:
Microsoft always ready to help their users in every aspect, whether it's "Help" section in each Microsoft' product or "Online Customer Support". Even Outlook has lots of features which can easily fix and resolve Outlook errors or simply by following some list of instructions, you can also get overcome from errors in Outlook.
Have a Look on List of methods to Fix and Resolve the Outlook Errors:
- Check Internet Connection: First, check your internet connection and be sure about its connectivity because most of the times bad internet connection mess your Outlook experience.
- Accurate Account Settings: Whether you have an IMAP account or POP3, you should aware about account related information, right server information, email id and other factors also which plays a role in account settings.
- Remove or Delete Suspected Email: Outlook users always keep focus on suspected email because these emails or messages generally create disturbance in Outlook, and become one of reason of errors in PST file. Always delete such kind of emails firstly if you find in your email box.
- Antivirus Configuration: Sometimes antivirus configuration also creates errors and not allows Outlook to perform send/receive action. The user should check complete settings and policies of antivirus so infuture it will not make another problem in Outlook.
- Firewall Authentication: As we all know that Firewall protects our computer from attacks of virus/malware which comes through the internet. Its same work in the case of Outlook, but sometimes firewall's strict check-in policies and wrong assumptions of the emails don't allow emails to move in Inbox and shows errors. So, ensure about port setting and others necessary settings of the firewall.
- Repair Microsoft Outlook: Via this repairing Microsoft Outlook suite, you can get out from errors and resolve Outlook errors easily. It's one of the best ways to handle the errors in Outlook.
- Sure About Email Profile Working: Test proper working of Outlook's profile by sending a demo email to another email account, so you can be sure about email profile working and its correct configuration.
- Run MS-Outlook in Safe Mode: Excess plug-ins or Add-ins in Outlook make it slower and sometimes it leads to corruption and became reason of errors in Outlook. Using Outlook in safe mode can give you error free Outlook interface.
To Run Outlook in Safe Mode: Type "outlook.exe /safe" in the search box. (Window 7)
- Inbox Repair Tool (Scanpst.exe): PST stands for "Personal Folders File" which stores email, contacts, attachments and all others emails items. Corruption in the PST file is one of the common reasons for errors in Outlook and in such cases user not able to send or receive messages. Inbox Repair Tool helps to repair, recover and also provide backup for the corrupt PST file.
- Clear Email from Outbox: Always clear your Outbox from the stuck emails which cause the errors in Outlook.
Most of the times, one of these methods rectify the errors and resolve them, but in other cases when the level of damage and corruption is high, then these inbuilt features do not give any relax from the above errors.
In such circumstances, users have to go for any third party utility which can help them to repair or recover their necessary Outlook’ data and PST file in a healthy way.