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Windows Live Mail – stuck while ‘Executing’ outgoing mail

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Archived post from December 25, 2013. Product: Windows Live Mail – no longer developed by its maker. Details may be out of date.

Question asked on Dec 25, 2013
I was cleaning up a family member's Live Mail. There were two old emails in the outbox that had incorrect email addresses. I deleted them, I deleted 100+ emails from drafts, I deleted hundreds of email from the Spam folder,  I emptied the deleted mail folder. 

When I closed and restarted Windows Live Mail (in Windows 7), the Windows Live Mail dialog box comes up with "Send 2 message(s) using 'pop server address here'". The status is 'Executing'. Starting and stopping does nothing. It doesn't time out, there is no error message. 

I ran the Repair All Windows Live programs from Programs in Control Panel. It restarted Windows Live but did not fix the problem. 

Any suggestions?

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