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MS Office Forum / Outlook / General MS Outlook Questions / March 2008have found messages sent by my imap accts in spam folder i didn't
i have noticed on several occasions messages sent by two of my e-mail addresses that were caught by by spam folders. both accounts are gmail accounts and are set up using imap. has anyone ever seen anything like this before? dazed and confused here. You're not really clear here. Are these messages sent by you and received by others in the Junk Email folder? This could happen for all sorts of reasons and the solution depends on the Junk Email filter of the receiver. There is not much you can do about that. Free accounts like GMail, Hotmail, Yahoo are often sooner treated as Junk than messages received from other ISPs.  SignatureRobert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook] Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003 http://www.howto-outlook.com/ Outlook FAQ, HowTo, Downloads, Add-Ins and more http://www.msoutlook.info/ Real World Questions, Real World Answers ----- > i have noticed on several occasions messages sent by two of my e-mail > addresses that were caught by by spam folders. both accounts are gmail > accounts and are set up using imap. has anyone ever seen anything like > this > before? dazed and confused here. these are messages i have not created. messages seem to be sent from one of my imap accounts to the same account. the messages are definately spam. it is caught by my imap spam folder before showing up in my imap sent mail folder a copy can also be found in my junk mail folder. > You're not really clear here. Are these messages sent by you and received by > others in the Junk Email folder? [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > this > > before? dazed and confused here. > these are messages i have not created. messages seem to be sent from one of > my imap accounts to the same account. the messages are definately spam. > it is caught by my imap spam folder before showing up in my imap sent mail > folder a copy can also be found in my junk mail folder. Spammer forgeries, most likely. If they appear to be "from" you "to" you, that is a common spammer technique, based on an assumption that the recipient email address will be whitelisted as a "sender". You could run a malware check, just to be certain, but also check the full headers of the email messages for the trace headers. Received: from * by * will often prove the forgery. SignatureNorman ~Oh Lord, why have you come ~To Konnyu, with the Lion and the Drum The following links may shed some light on the problem: Understanding E-mail Spoofing http://www.windowsecurity.com/articles/Email-Spoofing.html Email "Spamming" and Email "Spoofing" http://www.lse.ac.uk/itservices/help/spamming&spoofing.htm E-mail spoofing - Definition http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mail_spoofing Nikki >> these are messages i have not created. messages seem to be sent from one >> of [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > headers of the email messages for the trace headers. Received: from * by * > will often prove the forgery. thanks, i am having a problem understanding the progession the message makes after i have noticed it in my imap spam folder. outlook will show one unread message in the imap spam folder. if the imap folder downloads from the imap server outlook shows one unread message in the imap sent folder. the message will then show in the outlook junk mail corresponding to the imap folder in which the original message was located. if the original message is deleted from the imap spam folder and and purged it does not appear in the imap sent folder. does this mean the message has not actually been sent? > The following links may shed some light on the problem: > [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] > > headers of the email messages for the trace headers. Received: from * by * > > will often prove the forgery. What I am thinking is that you are getting messages from systems that have received an email that "looks" like you sent it. Spoof email is like that. It appears as if you sent it. When that system gets the email, it sends you a courtesy message to let you know that it won't deliver the email. This is confusing to you because, you didn't send it in the first place. Some bad guy just sent a message pretending to be you. :) Not much you can do about it, just delete the messages. Nikki > thanks, i am having a problem understanding the progession the message > makes [quoted text clipped - 46 lines] >> > by * >> > will often prove the forgery. > thanks, i am having a problem understanding the progession the message makes > after i have noticed it in my imap spam folder. IMAP is not a sending protocol. > outlook will show one unread message in the imap spam folder. That means Outlook downloaded the message to its copy of the account spam folder. IMAP is a reading protocol which synchronizes the local client folders with the account folders on the server. > if the imap folder downloads from the imap server outlook shows one unread > message in the imap sent folder. Outlook should not be showing any email in the sent folder, unless it was sent from the account. That part is certainly confusing to me. > the message will then show in the outlook junk mail corresponding to the imap > folder in which the original message was located. > > if the original message is deleted from the imap spam folder and and purged > it does not appear in the imap sent folder. does this mean the message has > not actually been sent? Because Outlook synchronizes its folder contents with the folder contents on the server, whatever Outlook is seeing is what is on the server folders. Which service is this? SignatureNorman ~Oh Lord, why have you come ~To Konnyu, with the Lion and the Drum Its most likely the spammers are trying to fool you and faked your address on the From field. It's a very common methods they use to get past filters. SignatureDiane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook] Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours Need Help with Common Tasks? http://www.outlook-tips.net/beginner/ Outlook 2007: http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/ol2007/ Outlook Tips by email: dailytips-subscribe-request@lists.outlooktips.net Outlook Tips: http://www.outlook-tips.net/ Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com Subscribe to Exchange Messaging Outlook newsletter: EMO-NEWSLETTER-SUBSCRIBE-REQUEST@PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM ** Please include your Outlook version, Account type, and Windows Version when requesting assistance ** > these are messages i have not created. messages seem to be sent from one > of [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] >> > this >> > before? dazed and confused here.
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