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Outlook Express sending to unintended recipients. Not good.

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jlockley

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Nov 28, 2001
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I have recently subscribed to the ATT online message box (terrific idea). I received a message today I needed to forward to my associate, Howard. There is an automated option to forward messages via email, which brings up Outlook (evil) express. I check Forward, enter Howard's address and click send.

What happens next is relatively hair raising:
1) I get the following multiple message
The message could not be sent because one of the recipients was rejected by the server. The rejected e-mail address was 'ed@whatever.com'. Subject 'Document in Form : anewrol.fsl [Data Entry]', Account: 'Mail Account', Server: 'smtpout.secureserver.net', Protocol: SMTP, Server Response: '553 Sorry, that domain isn't in my list of allowed rcpthosts.', Port: 25, Secure(SSL): No, Server Error: 553, Error Number: 0x800CCC79

Now the document in form would be a resume I may or may not have sent to Ed at whatever in the past. I sure don't want to send it to him again.

This message repeats for a dozen or so of my clients with a dozen or so documents and one entire database.

Houston, I'd say we have a security problem. I try again and make sure that only Howard is included.

Same result, same suspects.

This is a relatively new installation of XP64 with n o entries into Outlook/Outlook Express. Fresh install on a fresh drive. I have not imported any information into the program, or set up a program.

I can work my way around it. Using the automatic popup was just too easy, but that is not what concerns me. What concerns me is that outlook express wishes to send unintended documents to unintended recipients.

I really despise both outlook and outlook express, by the way, and do not intend to start using them at any time in the future., Is there a way to lock them in their rooms and throw away the key apart from removing them, which causes numerous little annoyances?

 
Let me add that I have Eudora registered as the default email client on this computer.
 
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