A couple of months ago the B.T. Server governing my outgoing E-Mails suffered
disruption, and by E-Mail service through Outlook 2003 hasn't been the same
since! While I can both send and receive, messages stay in my Outbox a great
deal longer and form a queue which can prove frustrating. I don't even bother
sending anything with an attachment over 1MB as I'd be quicker walking it to
it's destination! In addition, the strangest thing, is that at the bottom of
the screen Outlook tells me that it is sending 'Item 1 of 312' (a number
which keeps increasing) despite the fact I'm not aware of that number of
E-Mails being pending.

Is there something holding these up?

Are these read receipts?

Is there something I can do to release all of these in the hope it might
return my service back to normal?

Thanks in advance for any help and/or advice you can offer.