Hide address in Outlook Express

[AyJayEL]

The Problem
We have a mature single lady dealing with email requests for a local History Society. There is a mailbox for the society that redirects mail to her personal account but when she replies it discloses her own email address.Recently she has been getting offensive SPAM and is getting upset by it. Demon say they can do nothing. I suggested changing her email address but of course whenever she replies to a History Society enquiry it will be disclosed again. Now your starter for 10 - in Outlook Express is there a way of hiding/encrypting your address ? I have received mail with the sender hidden
- how did they do it ? Learn something new every day *:->*

 

[petermeachem]

Could she not set up another account in outlook express and put a made up name in it. Then if selects that account (from the drop down) the address will be non-existent. That ought to cut down the replies. Peter Meachem
peter@accuflight.com

 

[AyJayEL]

Peter

Well I went home and tried to do as you said in my outlook express but I can't see how to do it without using an address. Am I being extra thick here? Is there something I am missing?

Ah... as I'm typing this I think I do know what you mean. You mean put in an email address such as freddybloggsy@hopemail.cod perhaps? I can't try it again till I get home..... Learn something new every day *:->*

 

[petermeachem]

Thats right. Peter Meachem
peter@accuflight.com

 

[AyJayEL]

Well I have tried all sorts! I still can't get it to do anything that works but doesn't show the address. Any other ideas? Learn something new every day *:->*

 

[petermeachem]

Ok full chapter and verse:-

Tools / Accounts

Click Add Mail

Type whatever you want for display name. Click next
Select 'I already have an email address'
Type in diddle@doddle.com or whatever. Click next
Put in the in and out mail addresses. Click next
Put in the account and password. Click next and finish.

Click new mail.
The From edit box is a drop down. Select the one you've put in. And finish the email.

I've just myself one like this and the message source is below. The only reference to me is the To address which is fair enough.

Received: from 90.0.0.2 by nt4work ([90.0.0.1] running VPOP3) with SMTP for <peter@accuflight.com>; Wed, 25 Apr 2001 22:01:44 +0100
Message-ID: <018601c0cdca$fe21cdd0$0200005a@nt4work>
From: &quot;Peter Meachem&quot; <diddle@doddle.com>
To: &quot;Peter Meachem&quot; <peter@accuflight.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 22:02:09 +0100
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=&quot;iso-8859-1&quot;
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600
X-Server: VPOP3 V1.4.0c - Registered
Subject: this works


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Peter Meachem
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[AyJayEL]

Thank you Peter. I will do that. Learn something new every day *:->*