Problem with McAfee Addin and Outlook 2016

[MagicBob58]

Running McAfee Total Protection all up to date.

Running Windows 10 Pro version 1803, Office 365 Home version 1808.

I have an odd problem with Outlook that is related to the McAfee Addin. Disabling the McAfee addin gets rid of the problem.

A little background. I recently installed Office 365 on a new Dell XPS8930. All ran well for about a week or so, then this problem popped up. Earlier in the day all was well, then it started happening. Could have been after a McAfee update, but cannot iknow for sure.

First, I do not have the messages set to send immediately upon sending to the Outbox. When I hit send the message goes into the Outbox waiting for me to hit ‘Send/Receive All’.

The problem is that when I send the first message to an empty Outbox, it cannot be transmitted. It has that icon at the left end indicating that the message is not ready to be sent. When I send a second message to the Outbox, it is ready to be sent. If I hit ‘Send/Receive All’, it goes. After sending if I send another message to the Outbox, it will also transmit.

If, however, I send a third message to the Outbox, the icon on the second message will change and it will not be ready to transmit, but the third message will be ready to send.

Confusing, huh?

As an illustration I created two test messages, test 1 and Test 2. Sending the first message to the Outbox, the message is not ready to transmit. When I send the second message to the Outbox it is ready to transmit (See screen shot below).

Another symptom, If I continue to add messages to the outbox, only the last one will be transmitted. I have to transmit after every message I send to the outbox. Once a message gets to the state where it cannot be sent, I cannot just open it and re-send it to the outbox. It must be deleted and recreated before it is capable of being sent.

I have done both a quick, then a full repair of Office 365 (which basically reinstalls Office 365), but the problem still persists.

 

5/14/2021

It is now May 2021, and this much older than four-year-old problem has cropped up again. It was not happening this morning. A McAfee update musht have enabled the anti-spam scanning of outgoing email fearute. I have the most updated version of McAfee Total Protection, and I am now using Windows 10 Pro ver 20H2 bld 19042-985. I do not want to disable the McAfee add-in in Outlook.  As I said in my original post, outgoing emails are not automatically sent. They are transmitted when I hit 'send/receive all'. If outgoing emails are sent immediately, this problem does not occur.

If I disable anti-spam scanning of outgoing emails, the problem does not occur.

Has anyone ever seen this before? I had it on two older PC which are long gone, and two of my laptops. If I remember corretly, it even occurred on my Windows 7 machine. I am on the second PC since that old Win 7 machine died.

Bob

[sivasubramanian]

@MagicBob58

This is a strange issue. Please let us know the McAfee version installed on your computer. 

Run MVT tool by following the KB TS101111 and reboot the computer. Check the status. 

If the issue still persists, Reinstall McAfee.

Regards
Siva

[MagicBob58]

McAfee Total Protection

Version 16

Release Name 16.0 R16

[MagicBob58]

Thank you Siva for your help.

I ran the MVT and it corrected some an error, but could not fix two others.
Below is a copy of the log.

                  MVT Information
                  MVT Version :8.2.0.335

                  System Information

                  Operating System :Windows 10 Professional Edition(Build 17763)
                  Service Pack :Service Pack 0.0
                  Language :0409
                  Internet Explorer Version :11.1
                  Internet Explorer Language :en-us
                  System Drive Type :NTFS
                  Physical Memory Available :2097151
                  Physical Memory Total :2097151
                  Virtual Memory Available :30392020
                  Virtual Memory Total :38603580
                  System Architecture :Intel64 Family 6 Model 158 Stepping
                  10Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8700 CPU @ 3.20GHz
                  Date Time :10/09/2018 09:24:20
                  Time Zone :GMT -05:00

                  Product Details

                        Product Name:SecurityCenter
                        Product Version:17.5.128
                        Language:en-us
                        Partner:McAfee
                        Health Check Details

                              Registry OK
                              File OK
                              Process OK
                              Service OK
                              COM OK
                              Top Issues OK
                              SYSTEM OK

                        Product Name:Personal Firewall
                        Product Version:18.5.117
                        Language:en-us
                        Partner:McAfee
                        Health Check Details

                              Registry OK
                              File OK
                              Process 2 process(s) incorrect

                                Expected process not running
                                 Expected : running
                                 Existing : not running
                                C:\Program Files\Common
                                Files\mcafee\systemcore\mfefire.exe
                                Expected process not running
                                 Expected : running
                                 Existing : not running
                                C:\Program Files\Common
                                Files\mcafee\systemcore\mfemms.exe

                              Service 2 service(s) incorrect

                                Expected Service not Present
                                 Expected : installed
                                 Existing : not installed
                                 Service: McMPFSvc

                                Expected Service State Incorrect
                                 Expected : The Service is Running
                                 Existing : The Service is Stopped
                                 Service: mfefire

I then restarte my system and the problem remained. Should I now reinstall McAfee Total Protection? If so, I will later this evening and let you know the results.
Should I uninstall McAfee Total protection before reinstalling?
Do you have a McAfee tool to completely remove the program?

Bob

[sivasubramanian]

@MagicBob58

Please do follow our article to reinstall McAfee and update us.

Regards
Siva

[MagicBob58]

In the last two years since I have posted this problem, I have reinstalled Windows 10, Microsoft Office 365, and McAfee Total Security and the problem still exists. It also exists on my laptops. I like this feature, see my original post, but cannot use it.