New behavior with Outlook attachments

[Chris Varner]

We use Office Pro 97 with Outlook 2000. We have recently
experienced a change in the behavior of the product when
documents are sent as attachments through Outlook. The
product now copies the sender when attaching files to
email messages. This began about two weeks ago. Perhaps
coinciding with the application of Microsoft security
patches. For exasmple, if a user is in Excel 97 and
selects "File", "Send To", "Mail Recipient...", an
Outlook message opens with the current Excel file
attached. The user fills in the email address of the
recipient, adds a subject and some text, and sends the
message. The expected (prior) behavior is that the
message is sent to the recipient only. What has been
happening recently is that the message goes to the
recipient AND the sender. Does anyone know why this
would suddenly begin happening? It has happened with
several users in our office so I don't think it's a
specific issue with one user.
Thanks!
-Chris

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Do you have the option set to keep a copy in the same folder with the sent
message? Does this person have an automatic CC set under View->Options?

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer, Chris Varner asked:

| We use Office Pro 97 with Outlook 2000. We have recently
| experienced a change in the behavior of the product when
| documents are sent as attachments through Outlook. The
| product now copies the sender when attaching files to
| email messages. This began about two weeks ago. Perhaps
| coinciding with the application of Microsoft security
| patches. For exasmple, if a user is in Excel 97 and
| selects "File", "Send To", "Mail Recipient...", an
| Outlook message opens with the current Excel file
| attached. The user fills in the email address of the
| recipient, adds a subject and some text, and sends the
| message. The expected (prior) behavior is that the
| message is sent to the recipient only. What has been
| happening recently is that the message goes to the
| recipient AND the sender. Does anyone know why this
| would suddenly begin happening? It has happened with
| several users in our office so I don't think it's a
| specific issue with one user.
| Thanks!
| -Chris

 

[Chris Varner]

Those options are not set, but I found the culprit:
We had installed a new version (v. 2.0) of Brightmail's
Outlook Plugin for their server-based anti-spam product.
For some reason, this plugin causes the problem.
Removing the plugin makes the issue disappear.
Thanks for your help.
-Chris