Re: Emails sent by me to friend only received but also returned to me!

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From: Michael Santovec (michael_santovec_at_prodigy.net)
Date: 11/13/04 

Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 11:45:19 -0800

To tell for sure what is going on, I'd need to see the full headers of both the original
message and the returned one. That includes all the Received header lines, as well as
From, To, CC, etc.

Besides this being a Read Receipt, it could be a message rule on the recipient's end
(either in his mail program or mail server), an anti-spam program bouncing the message as
spam, etc.

If you like, you may e-mail me with the information and I'll take a look at it. 

-- 
Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm
"Xylophone" <m-rharrison@tiscali.co.uk> wrote in message 
news:edyatUbyEHA.1292@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
>I have XP Home and use OE6.  I send a lot of emails, and recently, in the
> case of two regular addressees (out of many), my emails (I use text format,
> and HTML format only rarely) have literally been bounced back to me, i.e. I
> send a message and a few minutes later it comes back to me, addressed to me,
> which it was not when I sent it.  The source of one of these messages
> bounced back, minus the text and identifying stuff is as follows:
>
> From: (me)
> To:
> Subject:
> Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 18:49:12 -0000
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> Content-Type: text/plain;
> charset="Windows-1252"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
> X-Priority: 3
> X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
> X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1437
> Disposition-Notification-To: (me)
> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1441
>
> In the case of the above addressee, I telephoned him about a message I sent
> him five minutes before (which had already been bounced back to me) and he
> said he had received it.  So a message sent to X reaches X and at the same
> time is returned to me as if I had sent it to me.     I cannot imagine the
> reason for this behaviour, and the only cure I can think of is disabling
> read receipt messages, as they are the only communications on sent emails
> that I know come back to me.  Advice/solutions?
>
>

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