Mail.app – This message can’t be saved to the outbox
Posted by brendo | Posted in rant | Posted on 25-08-2009
Tags: gmail, google, google apps, leopard, mail, mail.app, osx, this message can't be saved to the outbox
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The annoying, uninformative error message.
This message can’t be saved to the Outbox.
The message contains one or more attachments that are too large to be saved in the Outbox. Try deleting some attachments.
Have you ever got this error message before? I use Mail.app IMAP’ing from my GAFYD (Google Apps for Your Domain) account and thought I was going insane when I was getting this error message the other day.
I went in and emptied trash, cleared out a bunch of emails – basically got back to 50% free space, which was moooore than enough for the 5mb attachment I was sending. I also checked my local hard-drive to ensure I had plenty of free space, and I did.
It turns out this error message actually means that the attachment that you are trying to send on hasn’t finished downloading yet.
A more descriptive error message would be nice!