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I realize this is probably not an Outlook issue but wondering if someone here

can help with this. Mail server is at ISP; boss is running Outlook 2002. He

repeatedly gets email addressed to one of 3 other employees. His address is

referenced by X-Rcpt-To field. What is this, what causes this and is there

any way to block these from his Inbox? Can't find rule for when "not in To or

CC field". Mail actually reads as addressed to someone else, have to check

header to find his email addr. Emailed ISP help twice regarding this but no

response.Thanks.


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"Lynn" <Lynn@discussions.microsoft.com>wrote in message

Is it real mail? Is there any possibility that he's being BCC'd on

messages? Have you contacted the original sender to see if they are BCC'ing

the boss?



The X-RCPT-To field indicates that when the message was delivered to the

ISP, his address was used in a MAIL TO command.

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f.h.





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They are all spam messages, forgot to mention that, sorry. ISP's spam

filtering leaves much to be desired, which is why we will be making changes

at some point. Weird part is that he is the only one this happens to, and it

is always the same 3 other employee's mail that shows up. I have checked mail

acct settings for both boss and other 3 employees, nothing in there that

would cause this that I can see.



"F.H. Muffman" wrote:

They are all spam messages, sorry, forgot to mention that. ISP's spam

filtering leaves much to be desired, which is why we will be making changes.

Weird part is that it he is the only one with this problem, and this mail is

always addressed to one of only 3 other employees. I have checked mail acct

settings locally and at ISP for both boss and 3 others, cannot see anything

out of the ordinary.



"F.H. Muffman" wrote:

Lynn wrote:

Is it *only* spam messages? If it's only spam messages, you've never seen

spam come in without your name on the To or CC line? I would probably first

check all three machines for viruses/spybot type stuff with up to date

definition files, but, it doesn't sound like these messages are actually to

the coworker, but are actually to the boss. The coworkers address is just

put in the header of the message.



There are two parts to an SMTP conversation/message. First is the envelope.

That's the part of the conversation between two machines where a 'client'

machine tells a 'server' machine 'Here, this message is for ADDRESS A and

from ADDRESS B.' The header of that message, the part you see when looking

at the internet headers, does not necessarily need to match up. In fact,

some server, somewhere, is adding that X-RCPT-To header to show that this

message was sent to that address.



You may also want to investigate the purchase of a spam filter for outlook

if the built in filters aren't working good enough.

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f.h.







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