Help - Roady

[Anver]

Dear Roady,
I am back here with the old address problem but on outlook.
If I configure my outlook (OL2000)email services like:-
General - User info=Anver,
Name=Anver
Organization=personal
emai id= Anver (pls note only a name as email id)
reply address=(nothing)

Under server - Outgoing SMTP - mail.eim.ae(my ISP)

when I send a mail to you, you can see in the from address
a mail came from (e-mail address removed).(infact this is configured
as just a name called Anver)

Now my issue is how can I get rid off this automatic SMTP
address handling.

pls help
Regards
Anver

 

[Roady [MVP]]

Hi Anver,

Sounds like a problem with the mailserver then. You simply need something
behind the @ sign when sending to the Internet. So if you filled in the
information provided by your ISP correctly it is something they need to sort
for you.

Good luck!

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[anver]

Dear Roady,

But when I configure this with Outlook, OL says this is
not a valid email id , do you want to use this? If I say
yes then it accepts as a name.
still is it a mailserver problem.?

help

Anver

 

[Roady [MVP]]

Hi Anver,

Is this the information your ISP provided? When you configure your POP3 or
IMAP account you can configure it with any SMTP address. If you place an
invalid one it will be completed with the configured SMTP server address.

Any particular reason for not configuring it with a valid address?

Regards,
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[Anver]

Dear Roady,

My ISP says it is a loophole from Outlook.
There is no particular reason for not configuring a valid
address, but If I can have a control, suppose some of the
user sending email by using others email id(name) and
configuring as just a name then, the original user will be
wondering what is happening here.

what all I need I simply want to stop the automatic SMTP
address handling.

Any patch or macro can recommend on this.

Help
Anver

 

[Roady [MVP]]

Hi Anver,

Well it's not a loophole in Outlook it's just the way e-mail works in
general; you can impersonate being someone else.

Why don't you configure your valid address given by your ISP?

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[Anver]

Roady,

Well Roady, there is 2 important things one I can stop
atleast sending email by simply typing other's email
instead of a valid email.
No 2 is, you know I have an old MMserver while sending an
email to smtp and the same cc to internal users, this is
also affecting the automatic smtp handling(you know this
problem that I have asked before. one of the exchange MVP
said there is nothing wrong in this, but outlook requires
IIRC-that is the reason of automatic smtp handling)
Is there any way that smtp mail should accept only by
configuring a valid email address other than a name.

Regards
Anver

 

[Roady [MVP]]

Hi Anver,

If I understand correctly you've got two accounts configured in your
Outlook? One is the MMserver (still not up for an upgrade? ;-) and one is a
POP3 account.

When you send a message and address it to an internal recipient and an
external recipient the mail gets delivered wrong for the internal recipient
if you enter a valid SMTP address for the POP3 account

When you send a message and address it to an internal recipient and an
external recipient the mail gets delivered wrong for the external recipient
if you enter an invalid SMTP address for the POP3 account

Is this correct?

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