Send Mail from IE6 defaults to Admin's Outlook Express

[Guest]

I have laptops set up with about 50 different users. It's not pretty but its
the only way to go for the current application.

If a user, say adam.smith is logged into his account and tries to send a
page in IE 6 through e-mail, it tries to use the guy.mcdowell account for
Outlook Express. This doens't work of course. adam.smith would have to enter
my password to send the e-mail. You can see the problem with that.

Any idea how this could have happened or how I could fix it?

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM]

I have laptops set up with about 50 different users. It's not pretty but
its
the only way to go for the current application.

If a user, say adam.smith is logged into his account and tries to send a
page in IE 6 through e-mail, it tries to use the guy.mcdowell account for
Outlook Express. This doens't work of course. adam.smith would have to
enter
my password to send the e-mail. You can see the problem with that.

Any idea how this could have happened or how I could fix it?

Are these different Windows Users?
Or are they all using your Windows Profile?

 

[Guest]

Are these different Windows Users?
Or are they all using your Windows Profile?

Each user has their won Windows Profile. Other than my account, all the
other users are in the Users group.

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM]

Each user has their won Windows Profile. Other than my account, all the
other users are in the Users group.

Unless you have entered your own account into OE for each user, I don't see
how this could happen unless you just copied your own User Profile. If that
is what you did you'll have to delete your account in OE and add theirs for
each User Profile.

 

[Guest]

Unless you have entered your own account into OE for each user, I don't see
how this could happen unless you just copied your own User Profile. If that
is what you did you'll have to delete your account in OE and add theirs for
each User Profile.

Hi Frank,

I should have noted that as well in my original e-mail. Each user has their
own OE account within their Windows account. So if adam.smith logs on and
opens up OE it is only adam.smith's e-mail account (which runs off our
SBS/Exchange server via IMAP, but that's another story.)

What I find the most odd is that this is the first time that this has
happened since deployment last October. I recently changed my Exchange
password, so I think they've been using my account to send from IE all along
and just didn't know it, because they wouldn't have been prompted for a
password.

I suppose the easy thing to do would be to change my Exchange password back
- but of course that represents a real security problem. And it should be
fixed going forward.

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM]

Hi Frank,

I should have noted that as well in my original e-mail. Each user has
their
own OE account within their Windows account. So if adam.smith logs on and
opens up OE it is only adam.smith's e-mail account (which runs off our
SBS/Exchange server via IMAP, but that's another story.)

What I find the most odd is that this is the first time that this has
happened since deployment last October. I recently changed my Exchange
password, so I think they've been using my account to send from IE all
along
and just didn't know it, because they wouldn't have been prompted for a
password.

I suppose the easy thing to do would be to change my Exchange password
back
- but of course that represents a real security problem. And it should be
fixed going forward.

Okay, I'm lost as far as figuring out a reason. I don't know how OE could
do this and am tempted to blame the Exchange server, but I know nothing
about Exchange (and would just as soon keep it that way).

 

[Guest]

Okay, I'm lost as far as figuring out a reason. I don't know how OE could
do this and am tempted to blame the Exchange server, but I know nothing
about Exchange (and would just as soon keep it that way).

I'm thinking it might have something to do with how I created the user
accounts. Your post got me thinking. What if I had set up an OE account on
the Master Image account which then became the template for all the other
accounts? Would that have set IE to assume that my OE account was to be the
default OE account for all instances of IE? Maybe. Seems an odd way to
engineer things.

I'm embarking on a new image - so I'll not set up an OE account on the
Master Image account and see what happens from there. Definitely a point to
be tested once user accounts are being added.

I'll keep you posted for posterity's sake - just in case someone else
encounters the same problem.

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM]

I'm thinking it might have something to do with how I created the user
accounts. Your post got me thinking. What if I had set up an OE account on
the Master Image account which then became the template for all the other
accounts? Would that have set IE to assume that my OE account was to be
the
default OE account for all instances of IE? Maybe. Seems an odd way to
engineer things.

I'm embarking on a new image - so I'll not set up an OE account on the
Master Image account and see what happens from there. Definitely a point
to
be tested once user accounts are being added.

I'll keep you posted for posterity's sake - just in case someone else
encounters the same problem.

Yes, that would have your account installed on all of them.

 

[Guest]

Yes, that would have your account installed on all of them.

Each of the user accounts does not show a guy.mcdowell OE account though,
when I go into OE and look at the accounts. Hmmm.