Dealing with “No transport provider was available” error in Outlook

Using MS Outlook has many advantages associated with it. Being most popular and widespread email client and personal information manager, it stores all email and other email items in Personal Storage Table .PST file. Sometimes issues arise in PST files making it inaccessible and you need to perform PST file repair.

There are three different manners through which you can configure MS Outlook. These include IMO (Internet Mail Only), Corporate or Workgroup, and No E-mail. IMO and Corporate or Workgroup are the most commonly used configurations of the application. In earlier versions of MS Outlook, you can set up Outlook to a MAPI compatible mail server; whereas modern configurations can be used for connecting to different ISP and underlying SMTP, POP3, and IMAP mail servers.

However, Outlook PST file gets damaged during process of configurations and you might face fatal data loss situations. But not to worry at all, you can take help of PST file repair software in order to repair corrupt PST file accurately and instantly.

Going with a practical situation; you are not able to send an email from your MS Outlook account after corruption to the PST file. Moreover, you come across the below error message while sending an email:

“No transport provider was available for delivery to this recipient.”

This error suggests that the message cannot be delivered and it is reported by the system administrator. Such email is known as NDR or Non-Delivery Report. Following are the causes and possible resolutions of this problem:

1. Removed or damaged installation of MS Outlook Express can cause this behavior. It is due to the fact the MS Outlook does not work in these configurations if MS Outlook Express isn’t installed in your system. Both the applications share some common files. You must reinstall Outlook Express to fix the issue.

2. In case your Outlook PST file is damaged, remove the PST file from your Outlook profile and create a new PST file. To extract data from damaged PST file, you have to use PST file repair software.

3. Damaged contacts in distribution list can also cause this problem. You need to find it, delete it, and recreate it.

4. Microsoft Outlook profile is corrupt. Remove the existing profile and then recreate it.

If corruption in PST file is the main culprit then you must try recovering corrupt email data using an updated and complete backup. However, if backup is not in place, repairing PST file becomes extremely urgent. PST file repair software efficiently recovers messages, folders and appointments, meeting requests, contacts, tasks, task requests, journals and notes from corrupt PST files. This PST file repair software has advanced support to recover large attachments and embedded HTML messages.