cwaiii said:
I create a new message and send it using one email account (POP3) in Outlook
2007. I get an undeliverable message that shows the sending address (which
should be the address I sent the message from) is a totally different address
- also POP3.
The content of the Undeliverable email is strange as well (this is the total
message):
------------------------------------------------------------------
Your message did not reach some or all of the intended recipients.
Subject: RE: Our Vacation!
Sent: 1/10/2010 10:09 AM
The following recipient(s) cannot be reached:
------------------------------------------------------------------
example:
address I send the messaage from:
[email protected]
address that is reported as the sending address in the undeliverable
message:
[email protected]
Obviously the NDR (non-delivery report) e-mail had to get sent back to you
for you to see it. So does this NDR specify an account that you don't own
(i.e., you haven't a clue as to whose account it belongs) or is it one of
your other accounts?
From your example, supposedly
[email protected] is the account through
which you sent the e-mail (regardless of what you claimed was your e-mail in
the From or Reply-To headers). You sent the e-mail through that account.
You then get an NDR that says the original but undeliverable e-mail had
[email protected] shown as the sender. Okay, but that does not tell
us that
[email protected] is YOUR account. If you had said:
sent from:
[email protected]
NDR reports sender as:
[email protected]
then we would know
[email protected] was your e-mail address rather
than
[email protected]. Since you don't even give the domain,
we don't know if you are using a common e-mail provider, like Hotmail,
Yahoo, or your ISP, or if you actually are running your own mail server on
your host (or a webhosted one) that is in your registered domain.
- You sent the e-mail through
[email protected]. That's your account or
perhaps one of several at mydomain.com. We don't know.
- You never identified how many accounts are defined within Outlook.
- We don't know if
[email protected] is an account owned by you.
- We don't know if
[email protected] is another account you defined
within Outlook.
- We can't be sure that
[email protected] and
[email protected]
aren't actually the same account. There are "family" accounts where there
exist just ONE mailbox but has multiple aliases to it. There might be a
dozen different e-mail addresses but they all point to the same mailbox.
- We don't even get a full copy of the NDR e-mail because you didn't include
the headers and snipped off the body. Just munge out the usernames in the
e-mail addresses (leave the domains unless it happens to be your registered
domain and you think you need to hide that, too). Hard to analyze a partial
exhibit.
