-=PCTechTalk=- Re: Outlook Express Question
- From: GMan <gman.pctt@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 01:54:51 -0500
Hi Don,
The line "... when the person hits reply, their from line shows an
entirely different email they have" in Judith's original post explains the
issue clearly to me. It could just be clear to me because I have had the
same exact problem several times since I started using OE many moons ago. I
know from my own experience with it that it's not limited to a certain
version of OE, but I have never been able to establish anything resembling a
pattern that causes the problem. To that end, I am also having a hard time
imagining how OE could make that mistake.
In my experiences with this, there seemed to be absolutely nothing wrong
with ANY part of the messages. In fact, I even tested it on a PCTT post
that I had already replied to previously. The original reply (sent weeks
earlier) worked fine, but the second test attempt brought up a different
account of mine in the From field. On that occasion, the problem was only
affecting a small group of consecutive posts (by date) inside a single
subfolder (my main PCTT folder). Since they were old posts, I just forgot
about it after a while. But it later dawned on me that a bunch of
consecutive posts inside a single subfolder in OE means that it could be a
problem with a small part of the DBX file that is used for storing those
messages. It makes sense that those messages would be right next to each
other in the DBX file since they came into the file at, or close to, the
same time frame. So, if it's a corruption issue, compacting them MIGHT have
the effect of cleaning up the issue. Of course, I would first run CHKDSK on
that drive to ensure that the data is as clean as it can be before the
compact process starts trying to manipulate them.
Finally, I have never done anything to look into this problem other than
experiment. lol
Peace,
GMan
"The only dumb questions are the ones we fail to ask!"
----- Original Message -----
From: "DSWabc" <dswabc@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 8:41 AM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: Outlook Express Question
> How do we know it is the reply function in her (the author of the reply to
> the reply) OE? I agree that is the most logical point to start at but I
> missed the data that pinpointed it as the source of the problem.
>
> I am trying to imagine how OE could make a mistake like that unless there
> was a problem in the reply-to line or the account configuration got
> corrupted. My lack of programming skills is not helping. :-)) That is
> why
> I suggested looking at all the accounts and emails and headers.
>
> When the problem happened did (or next time it happens will)you go look at
> the headers of the messages you were replying to? Was/is the correct
> address in the Reply-to: line? Was/is the incorrect address used anywhere
> else in the headers? Was/is there anything in common with all of the
> messages? Such as... were all the messages you replied to replies to the
> same message or did they all share the same error in the headers or were
> the
> replies all from the same author using the same account to write replies
> to
> different messages from only one of your accounts or from more than one of
> your accounts?
>
> I wonder what line of thought gave you the idea to try compacting the
> folder
> next time it happens. My knowledge of compacting a database file is
> lacking
> anything that suggests it might help. But then my knowledge of database
> file compacting is limited to dBaseII, III and IV from the good old days
> of
> DOS.
>
> Has this problem been looked for in or submitted to the forums at Tom
> Koch's
> site http://insideoe.tomsterdam.com?
>
> Don
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "GMan" <gman.pctt@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 3:42 AM
> Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: Outlook Express Question
>
>
>> Don,
>> You can't confuse ME that easily. hehe
>>
>> The problem here is that her Reply function is malfunctioning and
>> trying
>> to use the wrong address without that wrong address being specified in
>> the
>> first addy's preferences. For example, the addy I use for this group
>> (GMan.PCTT@xxxxxxxxx) is set to use itself as the reply addy. However,
>> about 3 months ago I discovered that replying to a certain collection of
>> older posts would bring up a reply window that was using one of my other
>> addys. Each of these affected posts brought up the same unwanted addy,
>> even
>> though I have 11 email accounts set up in OE. Instead of just clicking
>> Send, I had to first make sure it was being sent through the correct
>> addy.
>> Once in a while, I would forget and the reply would bounce right back to
>> me
>> twice. The first was an unaccepted post to a subscription based group
>> (like
>> I wasn't a member) and the other came through the moderator address as a
>> non-member submission to the group awaiting my approval. What a pain!
>> lol
>>
>> Peace,
>> GMan
>
>
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