"Your message....was read"

J

jim

I've got a user who claims that every time she sends a message to a
particular group of people (about 20), she always gets a read receipt email
from somebody it wasn't sent to. I've checked all the recipients mailboxes
and i can't find any rules or delegate access that would account for this.

I tracked the message on the Exchange server (2000/SP3) and the only thing
it shows is that she definitely sent the message and the unintended
recipient definitely received it. Based on the tracking info it looks like
she intended to send him the message, but looking at the email directly you
can see that she clearly did not.

Is there a simple way i can track down how this message is being
misdirected? All parties are using Outlook2k3/SP1. We're running
Exchange2K in native mode.

Thanks in advance!

*Incidentally, this KB article was no help at all:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;222163
 
M

Matthew Byrd [MSFT]

Hi Jim,

It is most likly that the email is being sent to the unwanted user thru one
of three means:

1) Nested DL:
Ensure that if there are DLs within the DL that the Originator is sending to
that the unintended recipient does not exisit in any of nested DLs or any
DLs nested within the nested DLs

2) AD side configuration to forward all mail to mailbox X:
It is possible that one of the users in the DL has been configured in AD to
have all of their mail forwarded to a given user, contact, or DL. You can
check this by looking at the properties of all of the users in the DL in AD
and looking at the Exchange General Tab under Delivery Options. You will
want to look for the forwarding address.

3) Someone has configured a rule that forward the email to the unintended
recipient:

For #3 or for other forwarding you may need to go thru a process of
elimination. Take all of the users out of the DL except one ... send a test
messages from the originators outlook to the DL ... Repeat for each user in
the DL until you locate the users that is causing the email to get sent to
the unintended recipient.

Hope this helps,
--
Matthew Byrd
Microsoft PSS

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J

jim

So there's no simple way to track the path of the message? It's going to
take a while to parse through every mailbox.
 
B

Brian Higgins

or just save some time and do a general process of elimination... send 1
message to half the users, another to the 2nd half, see which message gets
the return from. keep cutting users in half till you've narrowed it down...
it's allot faster then one by one.
 
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