Outlook, Autoarchive, Permanently Delete, and "Not Read Receipts" - How To Stop?

[John Moyles]

I just had an earlier morning pre-coffee scare:

I had recently set up outlook to permanently delete items older then 5
days in my "deleted" folder via autoarchive. This morning the
autoarchive process ran for the first time.

Coincidently, I had just installed a new SMTP gateway tool on our
email server, and was checking the logs to make sure it was working as
advertised.

What I saw blew my mind: I could see, from the log, The Outlook
client on my pc was logging in via POP3 and sending off messages to
people I didn't know without my knowledge, and not leaving a copy in
the SENT folder.

All of the read receipt requests in this case turned out to be from
spammers. I don't want the spammers harvesting any legit addresses I
may have from my deleted (and unread email).

After some research, I found that all the messages had a subject
prefaces with "not read". I checked my "read receipts" options page
(Tools->Options->Preferences->Email Options->Tracking Options) and saw
that I had my read receipt option set to "Ask Before Sending".

Since the autoarchive is an automated process, do I need to change
this setting to "Never Send a Response"? Or is there another way to
keep autoarchive from firing off "unauthorized" emails?

Anyone have any ideas?

 

[Nikki]

Gosh, that is something I really never thought about. Quite
interesting. I would set it for NEVER SEND RECEIPT.

--
Nikki Peterson [MVP - Outlook]

I just had an earlier morning pre-coffee scare:

I had recently set up outlook to permanently delete items older then 5
days in my "deleted" folder via autoarchive. This morning the
autoarchive process ran for the first time.

Coincidently, I had just installed a new SMTP gateway tool on our
email server, and was checking the logs to make sure it was working as
advertised.

What I saw blew my mind: I could see, from the log, The Outlook
client on my pc was logging in via POP3 and sending off messages to
people I didn't know without my knowledge, and not leaving a copy in
the SENT folder.

All of the read receipt requests in this case turned out to be from
spammers. I don't want the spammers harvesting any legit addresses I
may have from my deleted (and unread email).

After some research, I found that all the messages had a subject
prefaces with "not read". I checked my "read receipts" options page
(Tools->Options->Preferences->Email Options->Tracking Options) and saw
that I had my read receipt option set to "Ask Before Sending".

Since the autoarchive is an automated process, do I need to change
this setting to "Never Send a Response"? Or is there another way to
keep autoarchive from firing off "unauthorized" emails?

Anyone have any ideas?

 

[John Moyles]

I set outlook to never send receipt, and well, it still sends those
bloody "not read" receipts.

Is there anyway in outlook to keep autoarchive from sending receipts
when it's deleting messages? I don't want the spam boys getting any
more info then they should about my active email accounts.

- John