E-mails Sent to Unwanted Parties

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Bret

I sent an e-mail today to answer a qustion on a product
I'm selling on Ebay. I sent an e-mail to the questioner
and my e-mail got sent to family members as well. The e-
mail still shows I only replied to one person but several
(unrelated people) got the reply as well.

Why did my e-mail go to other people that were never on
any cc' list and not a part of the original e-mail? Do I
have a bug that is send a copy of all of my e'mails to
unknown people? The people that received my e-mail both
work at authorize.net and they have no idea why they
received it.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance,

Bret
 
Hard to know for certain. Try this: right click on the
original email message you recieved and select "options".
In the dialogue box that opens, search through the message
header to see if the mystery recipients are listed. If
so, then they were either BCC'd or masked in some other
way. If you see their addresses listed there, the sender
copied them on the original message.
 
I sent an e-mail today to answer a qustion on a product
I'm selling on Ebay. I sent an e-mail to the questioner
and my e-mail got sent to family members as well. The e-
mail still shows I only replied to one person but several
(unrelated people) got the reply as well.

Why did my e-mail go to other people that were never on
any cc' list and not a part of the original e-mail? Do I
have a bug that is send a copy of all of my e'mails to
unknown people? The people that received my e-mail both
work at authorize.net and they have no idea why they
received it.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance,

Bret
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Wish I could help you Bret but I'm experiencing a similar problem. You
can see the discussion I had with Ben Schorr in this group about this
matter by reading postings with subject "Unwanted Recepient" (Recipient
was misspelled). So far I've not been able to resolve this issue. It
doesn't occur enough to be able to establish a pattern quickly. I have
scrutinized all the "To", "Cc", and "Bcc" fields in the messages that
went to unintended recipients without a hint as to what is going on. If
you come up with a resolution to this problem please let me know. I have
been an Outlook user for at least 15-years and consider it one of
Windows' most stable applications. I'm at the point where I about ready
to wipe the system clean and install everything from scratch. Again if
anyone has any idea of where to look for the cause of this problem I'd
appreciate hearing about it.
BTW, I am running Outlook 2000 SP-3 on two systems. The desktop is using
Windows 2000 as the O/S and the laptop is using Windows XP Professional
as its O/S. The laptop system is the one with the problem. Could this
be some incompatibility between XP and Office 2000?
I've done several searches of the Microsoft Knowledge Base without
turning up anything relevant. If anyone has ideas of key words to use
for searching the Knowledge Base this would be appreciated also.
 
What version of Outlook are you using? What sort of mail accounts? I don't
know of any problems like this in Outlook, but that's not to say that there
isn't a strange case in which it might happen.
 
What version of Outlook are you using? What sort of mail account? Has this
ever happened to you before?
 
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