'Ghost' e-mails

[Oldexpat]

HI there

I am running Win XP Pro on 6 month old desktop, I use Outlook as an e-mail
client and it polls and retrieves all of my pop e-mails from 6 or 7 different
servers.

I get a lot of spam through one or two of them (Compuserve and Netvigator).

I do all of my e-mail sending through my primary ISP server - although some
of the other server accounts have outgoing mail server settings correctly
installed I have set outlook to send from the primary ISP account only.

Lately when I send, I get a Send Receive signal showing that Outlook is
trying to send through both Compuserve and Netvigator and failing - this is a
worry because I have not enabled sending through those servers. In addition,
even with no mail in my outbox I get a 'sending' message when I hit
send/receive. I have run Virus checks (using up to date McAfee) and spyware
using SpyBot and an on-line scan (Housecall) and found nothing.

It is as if I have 'invisible' messages which the machine is trying to send
and which the servers are rejecting Have I been hijacked by a spammer?

In addition, my e-mails are not getting through to some servers, as if they
have been blocked.

Any advice?

 

[seedee 2]

I am experiencing the same issue, although I only have one SMTP account. I
am going to try to delete some "read receipts" I ok'd to send using
outlookspy. If it works I will reply again with the steps. Although, MS
should fix this issue and not require us to download an outside program to
fix an issue that according to the posts, seems pretty common.