Re: Weird Email

Tech-Archive recommends: Repair Windows Errors & Optimize Windows Performance

did you review the message header and the smtp or exchange server logs? this will show if it came from inside the network.

FWIW, my bet is a spammer or exploit and it came from outside the network.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Exchange Messaging Outlook newsletter:
EMO-NEWSLETTER-SUBSCRIBE-REQUEST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Outlook Tips: http://www.outlook-tips.net/
Outlook & Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com

You can access this newsgroup by visiting
http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.mspx or point your
newsreader to msnews.microsoft.com.


"Thomas M." <NoEmailReplies@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:ORERz2K2JHA.5728@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Outlook 2007

We have a weird situation with one of my co-workers. He received a message this morning that has his name in both the To and From fields. He maintains that he did NOT send the message to himself. The message includes the names of other people who work for my employer, but some of the names are misspelled. There are also a number of other misspelled words in the email, as if someone typed it quickly or if the composer of the message was not a native English speaker.

It would be easy to think that someone is playing a joke on him. However, my office sits behind two card access doors to which we control the access. According to the creation date and time on the email it was created and sent at a time when multiple people where in the room, and all report that no one was sitting at that station. Furthermore, it is very unlikely in my opinion that anyone broke his email password in order to play a joke on him because where I work people get fired for that kind of thing.

We thought that maybe someone had hacked his machine, but this one message is the only suspicious message that has gone out from his account, and he has had no other anomalous things happen on this machine.

Proceeding on the idea that everyone is telling that truth and that no one is lying to cover themselves on a joke, any ideas as to how this might have happened, or how to go about finding out how this happened?

--Tom

.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: Exchange 2003, Outlook 2003, VPN Connection Issues
    ... Another suggestion would be to look at Solar Winds, you can download and install for 30 days trial http://www.solarwinds.net/downloads/. ... Ethereal only needs to be installed on the same network segment as your clients. ... I would look at RPC traffic or communications between the OL Client and Exchange when the issue happens. ... Here is a link that also is useful for setting Static ports for Outlook 2007 and Outlook 2003. ...
    (microsoft.public.exchange.admin)
  • Re: Outlook 2003 --cache mode--
    ... Now Outlook doesn't load but does ask me for authentication from ... do you actually connect to an Exchange server? ... via VPN from the remote site to your corporate network? ...
    (microsoft.public.outlook)
  • Re: Takes a long time to add attachments to Email
    ... I tried re creating the mapped network drives and it still has this issue. ... Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook] ... EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange: ...
    (microsoft.public.outlook.general)
  • Re: Outlook 2003 --cache mode--
    ... Now Outlook doesn't load but does ask me for authentication from ... do you actually connect to an Exchange server? ... via VPN from the remote site to your corporate network? ...
    (microsoft.public.outlook)
  • Re: Users prompted to login while in outlook
    ... pro with Outlook 2003. ... Firstly, since you're using Exchange, you should keep ... Secondly, if you must use PST files for some reason, they must be stored on ... users logon to the network the same way. ...
    (microsoft.public.exchange.clients)