Re: "ghost" message sent each send/recieve

From: Jeff Stephenson [MSFT] (stephenson_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/12/04 

Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 09:46:10 -0800

Outlook is trying to send a read-receipt for a message that you read or
deleted, and your ISP's server is refusing to accept it. The reason is
right there in the error message - "MAIL FROM is not allowed to be empty".
This behavior violates the Internet email standards, which *require* both
delivery and read receipts to be sent with an empty MAIL FROM, and
*requires* mail servers to accept such mail. Tell your ISP to fix their
servers. I'll be happy to point them to the relevant Internet standards, if
they don't believe that they're violating them. 

-- 
Jeff Stephenson
Outlook Development
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights
"Fred" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:b38601c40794$d0830c20$a401280a@phx.gbl...
> I have a serious problem that my ISP can't fix.  I'm
> using outlook 2003 with Office Professional 2003.  About
> two weeks ago I attempted to send a .pdf file to someone,
> and it kept sending it over and over, even though
> the "outbox" is empty.  Finally it quit sending that
> particular file, but now whenever I send/recieve I get
> error ". . . 0x800CCC0F . . . the server responded: 550
> MAIL FROM is not allowed to be empty".
>
> My outbox is EMPTY, and I get this every send/receive.
> If I send one message, I get 1 of 2 items being sent.
> Sometimes my real message makes it, sometimes it sits in
> the Outbox for several tries.
>
> What is this mysterious message?  I have 1) uninstalled
> and re-intalled Outlook 2) deleted and re-set my account
> 3) stumped my ISP's excellent techies.  I have two other
> PC's on my home network, and no problem with them.  So it
> is something local on my PC.
>
> Any help/suggestions would be appreciated before I go the
> sit-on-hold route with MSFT.
>
> Fred

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