Rob said:
I set up outlook to recieve emails from both google and yahoo. The mail gets
forwarded to outlook but it has my name in the senders name instead of the
person who sent the email to me. I am not sure what I have done wrong. Can
anyone help me get this straightened out? I would appreciate it much!
Nothing ever gets "forwarded" to an e-mail client. An e-mail client
polls an account to receive [new] items or sends messages to an account.
So just where is this "forwarding" being accomplished?
If you are forwarded messages from one *account* to another account (and
then polling that 2nd account with your e-mail client), those messages
forwarded from your 1st account could look like they came from you.
Some forwarding services will forward an exact copy of the e-mail which
means they do not alter the headers (other than perhaps prepending a
Received header). Some forwarding services aren't forwarding services
at all. Instead they are remail services. The inbound e-mail gets
deposited into a mailbox and then a rule or script sends on those
messages just like it were e-mailing them (i.e., just like you doing a
forward operation in Outlook). A real forwarding service doesn't even
have a mailbox because the e-mails don't get received to sit in a
mailbox.
I have no idea where the "forwarding" is actually involved in your
scenario. You might be using a rule in Outlook to forward received
e-mails from a mailbox to then e-mail them out to another mailbox. If
so, well, you are e-mailing those messages so they will look like they
came from you. If you are polling a 2nd account to which messages are
getting forwarded from your 1st account, you'll have to look at your 1st
account to see if you are using their forwarding service (and if it
actually forwards rather than remails) or if you define a rule there
(which means the messages have to arrive into a mailbox and then the
rule *remails* those messages).
You have a Yahoo and Google account. Are you forwarding e-mails from
your Yahoo account to your Google account? If so, how? By an
auto-forward option or by a rule? Or did you configure Gmail to poll
your Yahoo account (to pull e-mails from your Yahoo account)? Is
Outlook involved in forwarding (which it can't do and can only remail
messages that it receives) and it is elsewhere that those "forwarded"
e-mails look like they came from you (like you are looking at the
message in the mailbox to which Outlook is forwarding, er, remailing the
items that it receives)? You give way too little information about what
is your e-mail setup.
Yahoo account
- Do you poll this account using POP in Outlook?
- Is it forwarding its received e-mails to somewhere else?
- If forwarding, is that by an option or rule?
Google account
- Do you poll this account using POP or IMAP in Outlook?
- Is it forwarding its received e-mails to somewhere else?
- If forwarding, is that by an option or rule?
- Or are you using its "Other Accounts" feature to use POP to pull
e-mails from your Yahoo account?
Outlook
- Are you only polling your accounts using POP or IMAP?
- Is Outlook doing any forwarding (which can only be done by a rule)?
- Do the headers actually show the sender as you (when it isn't)? Or
are you merely asking about the columns that are shown in the Inbox?
