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Until recently, I had 2 e-mail addresses listed for one of my contacts (one
contact entry). One of those became inactive, so I deleted it from my address book. However, when I send an e-mail to that contact now, it goes to the present address fine, but I get a "Delivery Failed" notice from my ISP for the old address. I tried deleting the contact completely, and re-entering it with just the new address, but OE is still trying to send to both addresses. I searched my computer for the old address, in case it was lurking somewhere, but nothing showed up. This isn't a major problem, in that the e-mail is actually going out, but it is annoying. Has anyone seen this problem before, and found a fix? Thanks for any help you can provide. Bill. |
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Are you sending a New Message or a ReplyTo his message (where the TO address
is automatically populated)? Is MS Office and/or MS Outlook also installed? -- ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear) MS MVP-Windows (IE, OE, Security, Shell/User) AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net DTS-L.ORG http://66.39.69.143/ Billy Canuck wrote: Until recently, I had 2 e-mail addresses listed for one of my contacts (one contact entry). One of those became inactive, so I deleted it from my address book. However, when I send an e-mail to that contact now, it goes to the present address fine, but I get a "Delivery Failed" notice from my ISP for the old address. I tried deleting the contact completely, and re-entering it with just the new address, but OE is still trying to send to both addresses. I searched my computer for the old address, in case it was lurking somewhere, but nothing showed up. This isn't a major problem, in that the e-mail is actually going out, but it is annoying. Has anyone seen this problem before, and found a fix? Thanks for any help you can provide. Bill. |
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Take a look at the message in the Sent Items folder, viewing the Message
Source (Ctrl-F3). Look at the TO an dif present CC and BCC headers. What e-mail address or addresses do you find? If just the one good address, then the problem is not on your end. He may have some automatically forwarding set up in his end. When you have multiple e-mail addresses in a contact, with one exception, OE only ever uses the Default one. To use the non-default one, you have to open the address book, right click the contact and select Action in order to get to it. -- Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm "Billy Canuck" wrote in message ... Until recently, I had 2 e-mail addresses listed for one of my contacts (one contact entry). One of those became inactive, so I deleted it from my address book. However, when I send an e-mail to that contact now, it goes to the present address fine, but I get a "Delivery Failed" notice from my ISP for the old address. I tried deleting the contact completely, and re-entering it with just the new address, but OE is still trying to send to both addresses. I searched my computer for the old address, in case it was lurking somewhere, but nothing showed up. This isn't a major problem, in that the e-mail is actually going out, but it is annoying. Has anyone seen this problem before, and found a fix? Thanks for any help you can provide. Bill. |
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![]() "Michael Santovec" wrote: Take a look at the message in the Sent Items folder, viewing the Message Source (Ctrl-F3). Look at the TO an dif present CC and BCC headers. What e-mail address or addresses do you find? If just the one good address, then the problem is not on your end. He may have some automatically forwarding set up in his end. When you have multiple e-mail addresses in a contact, with one exception, OE only ever uses the Default one. To use the non-default one, you have to open the address book, right click the contact and select Action in order to get to it. -- Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm "Billy Canuck" wrote in message ... Until recently, I had 2 e-mail addresses listed for one of my contacts (one contact entry). One of those became inactive, so I deleted it from my address book. However, when I send an e-mail to that contact now, it goes to the present address fine, but I get a "Delivery Failed" notice from my ISP for the old address. I tried deleting the contact completely, and re-entering it with just the new address, but OE is still trying to send to both addresses. I searched my computer for the old address, in case it was lurking somewhere, but nothing showed up. This isn't a major problem, in that the e-mail is actually going out, but it is annoying. Has anyone seen this problem before, and found a fix? Thanks for any help you can provide. Bill. I'm sending the messages as "New Messages", not responding or forwarding them. I don't have either MS Office or Outlook installed (I use Corel WP for word processing, and only OE for e-mail). I checked the "Sent Msg" folder, and used ctl F3 to check the address. There was only one address, the one that the message is actually going to. No CC or BCC addresses, and no sign of the phantom address. I guess there must be some sort of external link going on there. I checked with the contact, but he doesn't know anything about that. He's using "My Space" for his e-mail, so who knows what that is doing. Anyway, thank you both for the replies. I am satisfied that OE is OK, and that this is happening from the My Space site. It's not a real problem, just an annoyance. Again, thanks for the great help, as per normal here. Bill. |
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Access the Address Book via Start | Programs | Accessories | Address Book.
Do you see any old addresses here? Delete them. When you searched your computer, did you do an Advanced search and include Hidden Files and Folders? If not, try that and open every one that you find and look for the address. Search for: *.wab -- Bruce Hagen MS-MVP Outlook Express Imperial Beach, CA "Billy Canuck" wrote in message ... "Michael Santovec" wrote: Take a look at the message in the Sent Items folder, viewing the Message Source (Ctrl-F3). Look at the TO an dif present CC and BCC headers. What e-mail address or addresses do you find? If just the one good address, then the problem is not on your end. He may have some automatically forwarding set up in his end. When you have multiple e-mail addresses in a contact, with one exception, OE only ever uses the Default one. To use the non-default one, you have to open the address book, right click the contact and select Action in order to get to it. -- Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm "Billy Canuck" wrote in message ... Until recently, I had 2 e-mail addresses listed for one of my contacts (one contact entry). One of those became inactive, so I deleted it from my address book. However, when I send an e-mail to that contact now, it goes to the present address fine, but I get a "Delivery Failed" notice from my ISP for the old address. I tried deleting the contact completely, and re-entering it with just the new address, but OE is still trying to send to both addresses. I searched my computer for the old address, in case it was lurking somewhere, but nothing showed up. This isn't a major problem, in that the e-mail is actually going out, but it is annoying. Has anyone seen this problem before, and found a fix? Thanks for any help you can provide. Bill. I'm sending the messages as "New Messages", not responding or forwarding them. I don't have either MS Office or Outlook installed (I use Corel WP for word processing, and only OE for e-mail). I checked the "Sent Msg" folder, and used ctl F3 to check the address. There was only one address, the one that the message is actually going to. No CC or BCC addresses, and no sign of the phantom address. I guess there must be some sort of external link going on there. I checked with the contact, but he doesn't know anything about that. He's using "My Space" for his e-mail, so who knows what that is doing. Anyway, thank you both for the replies. I am satisfied that OE is OK, and that this is happening from the My Space site. It's not a real problem, just an annoyance. Again, thanks for the great help, as per normal here. Bill. |
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You are welcome and thanks for posting back.
-- Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm "Billy Canuck" wrote in message ... "Michael Santovec" wrote: Take a look at the message in the Sent Items folder, viewing the Message Source (Ctrl-F3). Look at the TO an dif present CC and BCC headers. What e-mail address or addresses do you find? If just the one good address, then the problem is not on your end. He may have some automatically forwarding set up in his end. When you have multiple e-mail addresses in a contact, with one exception, OE only ever uses the Default one. To use the non-default one, you have to open the address book, right click the contact and select Action in order to get to it. -- Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm "Billy Canuck" wrote in message ... Until recently, I had 2 e-mail addresses listed for one of my contacts (one contact entry). One of those became inactive, so I deleted it from my address book. However, when I send an e-mail to that contact now, it goes to the present address fine, but I get a "Delivery Failed" notice from my ISP for the old address. I tried deleting the contact completely, and re-entering it with just the new address, but OE is still trying to send to both addresses. I searched my computer for the old address, in case it was lurking somewhere, but nothing showed up. This isn't a major problem, in that the e-mail is actually going out, but it is annoying. Has anyone seen this problem before, and found a fix? Thanks for any help you can provide. Bill. I'm sending the messages as "New Messages", not responding or forwarding them. I don't have either MS Office or Outlook installed (I use Corel WP for word processing, and only OE for e-mail). I checked the "Sent Msg" folder, and used ctl F3 to check the address. There was only one address, the one that the message is actually going to. No CC or BCC addresses, and no sign of the phantom address. I guess there must be some sort of external link going on there. I checked with the contact, but he doesn't know anything about that. He's using "My Space" for his e-mail, so who knows what that is doing. Anyway, thank you both for the replies. I am satisfied that OE is OK, and that this is happening from the My Space site. It's not a real problem, just an annoyance. Again, thanks for the great help, as per normal here. Bill. |
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![]() "Bruce Hagen" wrote: Access the Address Book via Start | Programs | Accessories | Address Book. Do you see any old addresses here? Delete them. When you searched your computer, did you do an Advanced search and include Hidden Files and Folders? If not, try that and open every one that you find and look for the address. Search for: *.wab -- Bruce Hagen MS-MVP Outlook Express Imperial Beach, CA "Billy Canuck" wrote in message ... "Michael Santovec" wrote: Take a look at the message in the Sent Items folder, viewing the Message Source (Ctrl-F3). Look at the TO an dif present CC and BCC headers. What e-mail address or addresses do you find? If just the one good address, then the problem is not on your end. He may have some automatically forwarding set up in his end. When you have multiple e-mail addresses in a contact, with one exception, OE only ever uses the Default one. To use the non-default one, you have to open the address book, right click the contact and select Action in order to get to it. -- Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm "Billy Canuck" wrote in message ... Until recently, I had 2 e-mail addresses listed for one of my contacts (one contact entry). One of those became inactive, so I deleted it from my address book. However, when I send an e-mail to that contact now, it goes to the present address fine, but I get a "Delivery Failed" notice from my ISP for the old address. I tried deleting the contact completely, and re-entering it with just the new address, but OE is still trying to send to both addresses. I searched my computer for the old address, in case it was lurking somewhere, but nothing showed up. This isn't a major problem, in that the e-mail is actually going out, but it is annoying. Has anyone seen this problem before, and found a fix? Thanks for any help you can provide. Bill. I'm sending the messages as "New Messages", not responding or forwarding them. I don't have either MS Office or Outlook installed (I use Corel WP for word processing, and only OE for e-mail). I checked the "Sent Msg" folder, and used ctl F3 to check the address. There was only one address, the one that the message is actually going to. No CC or BCC addresses, and no sign of the phantom address. I guess there must be some sort of external link going on there. I checked with the contact, but he doesn't know anything about that. He's using "My Space" for his e-mail, so who knows what that is doing. Anyway, thank you both for the replies. I am satisfied that OE is OK, and that this is happening from the My Space site. It's not a real problem, just an annoyance. Again, thanks for the great help, as per normal here. Bill. Thanks, Bruce, for the info. I checked the address book, and no strange addresses there. I did an "Advanced Search", and included all files and folders as well as system files. That address just isn't on my computer, so it has to be something at "My Space". Thanks again for the response. Merry Christmas. Bill. |
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