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Guest
how to hide who an email is from in OUTLOOk???? I want to send an anomonous
email
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
And you are asking this OUTLOOK question in a WORD newsgroup because...?
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
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JoAnn Paules
Can't be done. And if you don't want someone to know who an email is coming
from - you probably shouldn't be sending it.
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JoAnn Paules
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http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375
from - you probably shouldn't be sending it.
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JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]
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How to ask a question
http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375
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Guest
do you have an answer to this, no one seems to know how to do it
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Have you asked in an Outlook newsgroup? JoAnn says it can't be done, and
that's my guess as well, but neither of us is an Outlook MVP. You might try
googling for "anonymizer."
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
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Fairhope, Alabama USA
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that's my guess as well, but neither of us is an Outlook MVP. You might try
googling for "anonymizer."
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Fairhope, Alabama USA
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Graham Mayor
And if anyone sent me an anonymous e-mail it would go straight in the spam
bin.
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<>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>><<>
Graham Mayor - Word MVP
My web site www.gmayor.com
<>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>><<>
bin.
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<>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>><<>
Graham Mayor - Word MVP
My web site www.gmayor.com
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JoAnn Paules
Amen to that. If I don't know who sent it, pfft! Out it goes.
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JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]
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How to ask a question
http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375
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JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]
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How to ask a question
http://support.microsoft.com/KB/555375
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Dan Freeman
If I don't know who sent it, I don't even see it. My spam filter takes care
of it.
Dan
of it.
Dan
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JoAnn Paules
I've seen some in the past with my ISP before they were purchased by
Comcast.
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Microsoft MVP - Publisher
How to ask a question
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375
Comcast.
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JoAnn Paules
Microsoft MVP - Publisher
How to ask a question
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375
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Dan Freeman
I wouldn't have lasted long with that ISP. Well, not if they expected to
communicate anything to me. <g>
With snail mail, I have a pretty well-established routine. On the way from
the car to the front door, I stop first at the mailbox and then at the
dumpster. If it isn't a) first class mail or b) from a clearly identified
sender or c) something I'm expecting, chances are good it'll land in the
dumpster without ever making it through my front door. Darned little mail
survives the trip past the dumpster, and I have less trash to carry to the
dumpster later.
I treat e-mail the same way. I call it the Klingon approach. The mail must
WANT to get through. It must FIGHT and WIN. <g>
Dan
communicate anything to me. <g>
With snail mail, I have a pretty well-established routine. On the way from
the car to the front door, I stop first at the mailbox and then at the
dumpster. If it isn't a) first class mail or b) from a clearly identified
sender or c) something I'm expecting, chances are good it'll land in the
dumpster without ever making it through my front door. Darned little mail
survives the trip past the dumpster, and I have less trash to carry to the
dumpster later.
I treat e-mail the same way. I call it the Klingon approach. The mail must
WANT to get through. It must FIGHT and WIN. <g>
Dan
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+Bob+
I've seen some in the past with my ISP before they were purchased by
Comcast.
Too bad about the Comcast takeover thing... you're probably losing
legitimate email now.
To the OP: You can send mail "From" anyone although you do have to
pick _someone_. Just go into Outlook and set up your email address to
be whatever you want. Some ISP's server's will reject sending out the
email if if is not from an address in their domain and some receivers
will reject email from phony domains. Also, it's OK to do this for
laughs with a friend, but be aware that your email *can* still be
traced back to you no who you say it's from. You can run, but you
can't hide.
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JoAnn Paules
It was the only cable company in town and I'm not in a DSL area. <shrug>
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JoAnn Paules
Microsoft MVP - Publisher
How to ask a question
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375
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JoAnn Paules
Microsoft MVP - Publisher
How to ask a question
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375
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+Bob+
It was the only cable company in town and I'm not in a DSL area. <shrug>
Yeah, I hear you. Sometimes ya takes what ya can get from the
available choices. I usually feel that way when voting for US
President. Unfortunately Comcast has some rather moronic SPAM
filtering rules and too "corporate large and stupid" to listen to
reason and fix them.
They shut down entire mail servers from sending to them based on the
fact that that server is sending SPAM to their users. That's a good
idea, but they implement it in a bad way. They only look at the server
just before the one that passes the mail to Comcast, instead of the
originating server. What happens is that a whole bunch of users that
have their own domains somewhere at large web hosting firms will
forward their email from their web domains to Comcast. That means lots
of SPAM gets sent to Comcast - in some cases from thousands of
domains. Comcast looks at it and decides that that server (the
legitimate web host) needs to be blocked. All of a sudden, mail from
any domain on that hosted (shared across that web host) mail server,
many, many thousands of domains, is all rejected from Comcast.
If they just looked at the originating server then they'd actually
stop the ones that are spamming, not the legitimate servers of most
large web hosts, but apparently intelligent thought is beyond their
corporate mentality. The bottom line is that Comcast users lose, but
again in that large corporate way of today, no one there cares.
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Dan Freeman
I hear ya. Long after most of the city of Chicago could get either cable
modem or DSL, I was still using ISDN because our little neighborhood on the
near north side couldn't get either.
It took a TWO YEAR BATTLE to get one of the first DSL lines in the
neighborhood (via a 3rd party DSL provider), and on THE DAY that my line
went live I started getting telemarketing calls from the local telco saying
they could now provide DSL. <g>
Dan
modem or DSL, I was still using ISDN because our little neighborhood on the
near north side couldn't get either.
It took a TWO YEAR BATTLE to get one of the first DSL lines in the
neighborhood (via a 3rd party DSL provider), and on THE DAY that my line
went live I started getting telemarketing calls from the local telco saying
they could now provide DSL. <g>
Dan
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
I had just about made the decision to go with BellSouth DSL when
miraculously EarthLink determined that I was not, after all, "too far from
the phone company." Since I really didn't want to have to change my email
address and move all my Web sites (hosted at home.earthlink.net), I was
happy enough to go with EarthLink DSL even though I could have gotten a
faster speed (at a better price) from BellSouth.
Of course, that hasn't stopped BellSouth from constantly nagging us. My
husband has a dial-up account (on a different line) with AT&T; now that AT&T
and BellSouth are one, I'm hoping maybe he'll be able to get AT&T DSL and
stop tying up the phone line (we tried networking our computers, but the
laptop he uses for the Internet turned out to be too old for the network
hardware).
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Fairhope, Alabama USA
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miraculously EarthLink determined that I was not, after all, "too far from
the phone company." Since I really didn't want to have to change my email
address and move all my Web sites (hosted at home.earthlink.net), I was
happy enough to go with EarthLink DSL even though I could have gotten a
faster speed (at a better price) from BellSouth.
Of course, that hasn't stopped BellSouth from constantly nagging us. My
husband has a dial-up account (on a different line) with AT&T; now that AT&T
and BellSouth are one, I'm hoping maybe he'll be able to get AT&T DSL and
stop tying up the phone line (we tried networking our computers, but the
laptop he uses for the Internet turned out to be too old for the network
hardware).
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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all may benefit.
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+Bob+
Of course, that hasn't stopped BellSouth from constantly nagging us. My
husband has a dial-up account (on a different line) with AT&T; now that AT&T
and BellSouth are one, I'm hoping maybe he'll be able to get AT&T DSL and
stop tying up the phone line (we tried networking our computers, but the
laptop he uses for the Internet turned out to be too old for the network
hardware).
I don't think that's possible... if his networking hardware works at
all, you can run it through a router to your cable connection. At the
worst you might need to put a hub or switch in between.
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
We bought new networking hardware (a router for my computer and a card for
his laptop) that was supposed to work. The laptop card claimed it worked
with Windows 98SE, which is what he has installed, but we never could get
his computer to "see" the card and finally concluded that his laptop was too
old for networking. So we returned the stuff to Best Buy. Now that he has a
newer laptop, we'll probably try again.
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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his laptop) that was supposed to work. The laptop card claimed it worked
with Windows 98SE, which is what he has installed, but we never could get
his computer to "see" the card and finally concluded that his laptop was too
old for networking. So we returned the stuff to Best Buy. Now that he has a
newer laptop, we'll probably try again.
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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all may benefit.
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