Not Read messages sending from Outlook 2007

[Hunter]

I keep receiving autoreplies and messages from people that I have received
emails from that say they have received an email from me. The subject line
is "Not Read" and then whatever the subject of the original email was. I am
not sending these emails and they don't show up in my sent folders. It is
bad that outlook is sending messages that I have no control over.

Does anyone know how to stop the ghost emails from being sent from my
Outlook 2007?

 

[Brian Tillman]

I keep receiving autoreplies and messages from people that I have
received emails from that say they have received an email from me.
The subject line is "Not Read" and then whatever the subject of the
original email was. I am not sending these emails and they don't
show up in my sent folders. It is bad that outlook is sending
messages that I have no control over.

Does anyone know how to stop the ghost emails from being sent from my
Outlook 2007?

One scenario that could lead to this is that your address has been hijacked
by a spammer who is also including read receipt requests on the messages.
The recipients of these messages recognize the spam or they have antispam
software and the messages are being deleted without being read. Since your
address shows as the sender, you get the receipts.

 

[Hunter]

Brian,

They are using actual subject lines from emails that I have received from
them. When I look at the sender information it says that it is sent from my
hotmail account, but is actually being sent from another email account I have
linked in Outlook. There is nothing in the email except a winmail.dat file
that no one can open or see. No one has said that it is asking for a read
receipt.

I think it might be happening when Outlook deletes an email from my trash
after a certain number of days and that email has not been opened. Thanks
for the help.