Docpro said:
Recently, I forwarded a message to a friend. A few days later, he tried
to
send me a mail. He sent the message to the adress shown on the
properties.
It didn't went through. He called me to say he sent the message to the
adress shown on the properties. It was in fact my old E-mail address. It
looks like my new one does not appear. Why? And what should I do to
resolve
this problem?
Well, did you ever edit the account definitions in Outlook (or use the Mail
applet in Control Panel) to change your e-mail address in those accounts?
The contents of the Name and E-mail fields are just data that gets put into
the header portion of your outbound messages. It is NEVER used to route
mails nor is it every qualified against your actual server mailbox that you
put the correct values in those headers. It is *data* that your e-mail
client adds to your message, so you need to edit your account defintions to
make sure your data is up to date.
If the Name and E-mail fields in the account definition looks correct,
perhaps you have more than one account, some of them have not been updated,
and you sent your outbound mail through a yet-to-be-updated account.
When you compose a message, the account that is defined AT THAT TIME gets
recorded into your message. If you then edit your accounts to change your
e-mail address or other *data* fields, Outlook isn't going to scan through
every outbound item to get them in sync if you have old outbound items that
were created before you made changes to your accounts. You cannot change
this account data that was entered at the time you started the compose of
that mail. You will have to delete it and send a new mail to use the new
data that you changed in your account definition(s).
