Outlook 2002 phantom messages being sent

[Kirton33]

My email account is generally OK, I can send and receive email normally.
However, recently (in the past few weeks) I have noticed that the send /
receive dialog box is telling me that I am sending a number of messages when
I know I do not have any in my outbox. Nothing appears in my sent items
folder.
I have read the other threads about phantom emails and I have checked the
read receipt setting on my client, and it is set correctly, so I know they
are not automatic read receipts.
I have noticed that the outgoing phantom messages always occur, if they do
occur, on the next send / receive after I receive some spam. I am worried
that I am getting spam that contains a virus. I run NOD32 as my anti virus,
but have this week also tried the free versions of AVG, Ad-aware and
Trendmicro Housecall, and none of them can find anything to report. I am
reporting this as a seperate question because, unlike the other questions, in
my case, my genuine email is working fine.

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

My email account is generally OK, I can send and receive email normally.
However, recently (in the past few weeks) I have noticed that the send /
receive dialog box is telling me that I am sending a number of messages
when
I know I do not have any in my outbox. Nothing appears in my sent items
folder.

There is anecdotal evidence that a recent Office update may be the cause and
Outlook is sending
"not read" receipts. From what I've read, Microsoft has been informed of
the issue via an incident report.

 

[Kirton33]

Thanks for the advice. Because this is anecdotal, I hope you don't mind if I
keep this open. I can say that I have only had this problem for a few weeks,
which is consistent with your update theory. However, Outlook 2002 is in
"support only" modes these days, so I am not sure they are updating it, which
is not supportive of the anecdotal theory. However, I really do appreciate
you taking time to post the reply.
Kirton33

 

[Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]]

Thanks for the advice. Because this is anecdotal, I hope you don't mind
if I
keep this open.

Since messages posted to this newsgroup do not constitute support incidents
and since I don't work for Microsoft, you're free to leave these mesasges
here as long as you wish. No one from Microsoft is likely to see it,
however.

 

[Toby Simmons]

Add me to the anecdotal evidence. I use IMAP for all my accounts (no
Exchange). I've detailed what I found here:

http://www.simmonsconsulting.com/2008/10/26/my-outlook-is-sending-spam-but-not-really/