Your antivurus changes the server to localhost in order for it to intercept
the mail and scan it for viruses before delivery to your in-box. If you
disable mail scanning, change the server name back to the correct one, close
and restart Outlook, you should not see Localhost as your incoming mail
server anymore.
Please note, some firewalls also change the incoming server to localhost.
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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my personal
account will be deleted without reading.
After furious head scratching, digicast asked:
| Thanks Milly for your answer but I don't think that is what is
| causing it. What AV plug-in are you referring to? Are you referring
| to the AV that XP SP2 includes? I should have mentioned this is my
| development machine that is running Windows Server 2003 Enterprise
| Edition with Trend Micro's Office Scan Antivirus software and not XP.
| Any other ideas? Much appreciated.
|
| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|
|| It is your anti-virus changing it. Disable the AV plug-in - it is
|| useless and a major pain.
||
|| --Â
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. Due to
|| the (insert latest virus name here) virus, all mail sent to my
|| personal account will be deleted without reading.
||
|| After furious head scratching, digicast asked:
||
||| Somehow my smtp server settings are being changed in Outlook 2003
||| every time I reboot my computer. It is changing from my ISP's smtp
||| server setting (for example mail.domainname.com) to localhost. Is
||| this a virus or spyware attack trying to use me as an smtp relay or
||| hopefully something more benign that someone else has experienced
||| and knows how to fix? Hopefully it is the latter. Thanks.
