Unwanted Automatic Outbound Email

[Draco Merest]

Outlook 2002 has two email accounts. One is very old and attracts a few
thousand spam/junk/virus emails per week. Why I persist with monitoring this
accout is outside the scope of my question.

This account has only the email headers downloaded. Read and Received
requests are set to Never Send A Response. The Send/Receive Settings in the
Groups Options are Receive Mail Items Only; not Send. BlackIce by IIS catches
some malformed email headers and tags them as bad when blocking them.
Lastly, I have given a false SMTP server address for this account.

With all these preventative measures, how can an attempt to send email be
made? I occasionally see an error that the outbound email server could not be
found. This error will persist until I restart Outlook. What could possibly
be in an email header which causes Outlook to send?

Thanks for reading to this line.

Draco.

 

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After furious head scratching, Draco Merest asked:

| Outlook 2002 has two email accounts. One is very old and attracts a
| few thousand spam/junk/virus emails per week. Why I persist with
| monitoring this accout is outside the scope of my question.
|
| This account has only the email headers downloaded. Read and Received
| requests are set to Never Send A Response. The Send/Receive Settings
| in the Groups Options are Receive Mail Items Only; not Send. BlackIce
| by IIS catches some malformed email headers and tags them as bad when
| blocking them. Lastly, I have given a false SMTP server address for
| this account.
|
| With all these preventative measures, how can an attempt to send
| email be made? I occasionally see an error that the outbound email
| server could not be found. This error will persist until I restart
| Outlook. What could possibly be in an email header which causes
| Outlook to send?
|
| Thanks for reading to this line.
|
| Draco.

 

[Draco Merest]

Thank you for answering but you are so far from the problem.

"This error will persist until I restart Outlook."
= can fix problem.

"What could possibly be in an email header which causes Outlook to send?"
= Technical query regarding obscure techniques for circumventing Outlook
settings.

Draco...
[o]

 

[Draco Merest]

Ok I caught one. I recall the message arriving. I did not download the body;
only the header. And then some 2 hours later I noticed the send email error
'server not found'. This error was generated due to my faulty SMTP address.

After setting up a packet logger to capture all traffic I gave Outlook the
correct outbound email server address. And the mail was sent.

So what was in this email header that enabled it to send out something???

I am too tired to decipher it. I need more reasech on email protocols and
such. But for those who are interested, concerned or anyone who can elighten
me, the file snippet can be downloaded from

http://www.iinet.net.au/~htjs/temp/winmail_auto_outbound.txt

Draco...
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