From field in OL2003 appear as exchange gibberish

[Itai Raz]

Hi There,

I installed office 2003 yesterday, on top of windows 2000 (upgrade? remove
and install? who knows...). Every since, every time I send an email, the
from field in my outlook view looks like this:
/o=GF/ou=GFCORP/cn=Recipients/cn=ItaiR. I want it to show my name, of
course.

Any idea?

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

But what do actual recipients see? That's what matters.

 

[Itai Raz]

Thanks for you response!

Per what I checked (sent myself an email), users see my real name, which is
good. I'm not sure what other exchange users on my server see.

However, having the ugly string in the from field in every outlook view is
annoying as hell, and makes me wish I had stayed with 2000. Isn't this
something that can be resolved ? I want to be able to sort by from, and get
some true results..

--itai

But what do actual recipients see? That's what matters.

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

Well, that's your address, so it's a true result. Did you see something
different in Outlook 2000?

--
Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers

 

[Itai Raz]

I don't get it. What do you mean that's my address? For every other email in
my folder, I see the nice name (not even an email address) of the person. Why
is it that for my own emails outlook can't just put up "Itai Raz" as the from?
And yes - in OL2000 my name appeard as "Itai Raz" in the from - not the x400
string. Can this be changed?

--itai

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

I don't get it. What do you mean that's my address?

It is, on the Exchange server.

For every other
email in my folder, I see the nice name (not even an email address)
of the person. Why is it that for my own emails outlook can't just
put up "Itai Raz" as the from? And yes - in OL2000 my name appeard as
"Itai Raz" in the from - not the x400 string. Can this be changed?

Did you try creating a brand-new mail profile to see if this still happens?

 

[Itai Raz]

I'll try that. It's a shame for me to lose my ost (0.5Gb), but I guess
there's no alternative.

Thanks,

--itai

 

[Brian Tillman]

I'll try that. It's a shame for me to lose my ost (0.5Gb), but I guess
there's no alternative.

It will be created instantly if you sync.

 

[Itai Raz]

instantly is relative when you work across a vpn on regular 1.5Mb DSL. ;-)