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[David S]

I fowarded an e-mail from my PC which didn't have an attachment to three
contacts. One of the contacts received a PDF file attachment with the
message. The PFD file was one which is on our server. The other two contacts
received the message only and in my sent box, there was no attachment on the
e-mail.

I then forwaded the message again to the person who had received the
attachment and she received the mail, this time without the attachment.

I have checked my PC for viruses etc. but there seems to be nothing wrong
and there are no other cases f this happening and no strange behaviour. I
would have thought that if there was a virus or other, the attachment would
have been sent to all three contacts.

There was a storm when I originally forwarded the mail and the lights were
flickering, could this have been the reason ? We do have UPS battery backup
but you never know.

Any thoughts out there ?

 

[Brian Tillman]

I fowarded an e-mail from my PC which didn't have an attachment to
three contacts. One of the contacts received a PDF file attachment
with the message. The PFD file was one which is on our server. The
other two contacts received the message only and in my sent box,
there was no attachment on the e-mail.

If using Word as you mail editor, check to make sure your Word template
doesn't have the attachment. Check that you don't have and PDF-making
add-ins enabled. Check with your server admins to make sure the server
didn't add it.

 

[David S]

Brian,

Thaks for your reply and help. I have looked at the word template Normal.dot
and there is a ticked box saying "validate document against attached schemas"
but there aren't any attached. I don't think I have any PDF plug ins, I just
have the basic free version 8. We don't have a server administrator, we are a
small office of 4 people, and I cna't imagine why the server would attach a
file of its own accord.

I now have another problem today in that I have received an out of office
mesage from someone to whom I have not sent an e-mail and who is not a
contact.

What happened is that I replied to a message (cc three other contacts) which
originally had a few previous messages underneath the text. This person from
whom I received the out of office message was copied on one of the previous
messages, however when sending my reply, I deleted all previous messages so
that only my reply was on my message.

I cannot work out what could have happened and am now very concerned as the
information in my message was confidential and should not have gone to anyone
other than my contacts.

I am completely mysitifed.

David

 

[Brian Tillman]

Thaks for your reply and help. I have looked at the word template
Normal.dot and there is a ticked box saying "validate document
against attached schemas" but there aren't any attached. I don't
think I have any PDF plug ins, I just have the basic free version 8.
We don't have a server administrator, we are a small office of 4
people, and I cna't imagine why the server would attach a file of its
own accord.

Well, I'd still delete normal.dot and let Word recreate it. I's also delete
any email.dot you find.

I now have another problem today in that I have received an out of
office mesage from someone to whom I have not sent an e-mail and who
is not a contact.

Is the person from whom you received the OOA message at the same company as
one of the other recipients of your message? If so, that person may be a
delegate of the recipient and, consequently, will also get your message,
triggering the OOA message. I don't think it had anything to do with the
history of the other messages.

 

[David S]

Well, I'd still delete normal.dot and let Word recreate it. I's also delete
any email.dot you find.


Is the person from whom you received the OOA message at the same company as
one of the other recipients of your message? If so, that person may be a
delegate of the recipient and, consequently, will also get your message,
triggering the OOA message. I don't think it had anything to do with the
history of the other messages.

Hi Brian,

I shall delete normal .dot as you suggest. I often have messages about it
that it's in use when I'm closing Word and changes should be saved to a
different file. Also, my macros keep disappearing. Should I delete on the
server and my PC ?

No the person was not related in any to the people to whom I sent the message.

David

 

[Brian Tillman]

I shall delete normal .dot as you suggest. I often have messages
about it that it's in use when I'm closing Word and changes should be
saved to a different file. Also, my macros keep disappearing. Should
I delete on the server and my PC ?

It's a file local to your PC, so delete there.

No the person was not related in any to the people to whom I sent the
message.

Then I can't explain it. Sorry.

 

[David S]

It's a file local to your PC, so delete there.


Then I can't explain it. Sorry.

OK thank you for your time and trouble.

best regards,

David