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Lizzy
This is a tricky one. I have searched this problem for awhile and I am still
clueless, which doesn’t happen very often. The problem most probably arising
from some virus that made some changes in either the registry keys or maybe
in outlook itself. The problem: one of the email accounts is trying to send
emails which do not exist in the outbox.
The layout: One Pentium 200 running windows XP professional which only
serves as an SMTP server with the IP 191.168.1.1, one portable computer
Pentium 4 running windows XP professional.
On the portable computer I have 2 email accounts lets say A and B. This
portable computer has also and SMTP service installed. Account A sends its
mail through the Pentium 200 thus having is outgoing mail (SMTP) set to
191.168.1.1 account B uses his local SMTP server thus having his outgoing
mail (SMTP) set to 127.0.0.1 the computers local IP, which I use when I am
traveling to send my mail.
I noticed the problem when I started to receive delivery confirmations (both
accounts ask for delivery confirmation) from Account B for mail I never sent
(or at least not consciously) the email names are all spam addresses, so
obviously some virus. Naturally I scanned my computer with various virus
scanners (Norton, bitdefender, adware). Only bitdefender found one virus file
which it could not delete and which I had to get manually rid off in
Safemode. Now no virus scanner finds viruses or the like but nevertheless
that email account keeps sending mail. I shut down the local SMTP service
(127.0.0.1). Now off course in the outlook send/receive progress window the
account B gives me a send error. As it always took about 45 seconds before I
got that message and could continue working normally with outlook I decided
not to include the send option for Account B when pushing the general
send/receive button. So where the outlook send/receive progress window first
showed account A sending and receiving, account B sending and receiving I now
had account A sending and receiving, account B receiving. Very strange
though is the following. After about 5 seconds the outlook send/receive
window disappears for a split second then also includes a separate account B
sending, thus resulting in Account A sending and receiving, account B
receiving, Account B sending. So something is even activating the sending
command of that account when I push the send/receive button.
Question: Anyone any idea how I can find out which program, virus, or other
thing is trying to send these mails which I can not see and do not appear in
my outbox. Or do I have it entirely wrong and is my problem something
entirely different. I honestly don’t know. Maybe some of you experts can
give me some hints.
I know I can just reformat the hard drive and start from scratch, but form
experience I now it takes me about a week to have every program installed and
configured back the way it was. So honestly rather not. That’s last resort.
Thanks in advance for reading and giving it some thought.
Cheers,
Lizzy
clueless, which doesn’t happen very often. The problem most probably arising
from some virus that made some changes in either the registry keys or maybe
in outlook itself. The problem: one of the email accounts is trying to send
emails which do not exist in the outbox.
The layout: One Pentium 200 running windows XP professional which only
serves as an SMTP server with the IP 191.168.1.1, one portable computer
Pentium 4 running windows XP professional.
On the portable computer I have 2 email accounts lets say A and B. This
portable computer has also and SMTP service installed. Account A sends its
mail through the Pentium 200 thus having is outgoing mail (SMTP) set to
191.168.1.1 account B uses his local SMTP server thus having his outgoing
mail (SMTP) set to 127.0.0.1 the computers local IP, which I use when I am
traveling to send my mail.
I noticed the problem when I started to receive delivery confirmations (both
accounts ask for delivery confirmation) from Account B for mail I never sent
(or at least not consciously) the email names are all spam addresses, so
obviously some virus. Naturally I scanned my computer with various virus
scanners (Norton, bitdefender, adware). Only bitdefender found one virus file
which it could not delete and which I had to get manually rid off in
Safemode. Now no virus scanner finds viruses or the like but nevertheless
that email account keeps sending mail. I shut down the local SMTP service
(127.0.0.1). Now off course in the outlook send/receive progress window the
account B gives me a send error. As it always took about 45 seconds before I
got that message and could continue working normally with outlook I decided
not to include the send option for Account B when pushing the general
send/receive button. So where the outlook send/receive progress window first
showed account A sending and receiving, account B sending and receiving I now
had account A sending and receiving, account B receiving. Very strange
though is the following. After about 5 seconds the outlook send/receive
window disappears for a split second then also includes a separate account B
sending, thus resulting in Account A sending and receiving, account B
receiving, Account B sending. So something is even activating the sending
command of that account when I push the send/receive button.
Question: Anyone any idea how I can find out which program, virus, or other
thing is trying to send these mails which I can not see and do not appear in
my outbox. Or do I have it entirely wrong and is my problem something
entirely different. I honestly don’t know. Maybe some of you experts can
give me some hints.
I know I can just reformat the hard drive and start from scratch, but form
experience I now it takes me about a week to have every program installed and
configured back the way it was. So honestly rather not. That’s last resort.
Thanks in advance for reading and giving it some thought.
Cheers,
Lizzy