Inbound POP3 email; every message saved in separate file on c:\ dr

[Guest]

Outlook 2003, SP2
1-Exchange email account; 2-pop3 email accounts

I have Outlook installed on my work computer. It is setup to access my
corporate email and I have 2 personal POP3 accounts as well. The strangest
thing started happening in September. It appears that every POP3 email that
I receive is saved into a separate ascii file in my root directory C:\. The
email appears properly in my Outlook and is saved in my pst file but another
copy is saved on my c drive. I now have thousands of these files. The file
name continues to increment as it adds new ones. The current naming
structure is s2c4, s2c4.1, s2c4.2....

I have searched all over the web and could not find anything to address this
issue. I have run spybot and the only things found were tracking cookies and
they have been removed.

Any ideas?

Thanks.
-Larry

 

[John]

it looks to me this only can be done by an add in. A bad one, I
suppose.
Check your loaded add-in: Tools | Options, tab Other, click [Advanced
options], check the Com add-ins and other options. Uncheck add-ins you
don't trust and restart Outlook.
Another way of checking add-ins is looking in the registry,
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\Outlook\Addins
Or the same key in the current_user section.

 

[John]

it looks to me this only can be done by an add in. A bad one, I
suppose.
Check your loaded add-in: Tools | Options, tab Other, click [Advanced
options], check the Com add-ins and other options. Uncheck add-ins you
don't trust and restart Outlook.
Another way of checking add-ins is looking in the registry,
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\Outlook\Addins
Or the same key in the current_user section.

 

[John]

Or, did you make or load a macro?
Check your Visual Basic environment: press Alt F11 and check the
modules. There should only be 'thisoutlooksession' and that should be
empty.
All stuff you will find there can be deleted if you don't know why it's
there.

 

[Guest]

That's is the only module I see listed.

Thanks for the idea.