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November 17, 2005 at 7:03 pm #2178367
Outlook – Blank To: field after sending
Lockedby gav@melbourne · about 16 years, 9 months ago
Sent items for this user occasionally don’t have a name in the To: field (completely empty).
There are no other recipients. The email is sent successfully, but there is no way or seeing exactly who the email went to, on screen or in print (bad for filing).
Seems to be occuring when the user sends as a delegate (on behalf of her boss). Using Outlook and Exchange 2003.
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November 18, 2005 at 3:29 am #3132270
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by sandeeppanayil · about 16 years, 9 months ago
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if you send the mail with the email ids to BCC then the recepient cannot see the TO :
This portion will be totally blank.This is done generally when people doesnot want,who all are the recepeint.-
November 22, 2005 at 4:18 pm #3121783
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by gav@melbourne · about 16 years, 8 months ago
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November 22, 2005 at 4:17 pm #3121784
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by gav@melbourne · about 16 years, 8 months ago
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I’m am reffering to the sender, not the recipient (“Sent items for this user…”)
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February 21, 2007 at 7:45 am #2511205
Blank To field in Sent Items
by Anonymous · about 15 years, 5 months ago
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We have this problem too…. it only occurs when sending to an address outside of the domain. Also, if you open the sent item and hit Reply to All, you will see all the addresses the email was sent to. At that point, if you try and add the address to contacts, you will get a double quote mark in the Display Name.
I still haven’t found a solution…..have you??
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June 22, 2007 at 12:42 pm #2593076
Same Problem here: email reaches recipient, but sender views & no To addy
by btemple · about 15 years, 1 month ago
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Our sender with the missing “to” field is not BCCing and not sending on behalf of anyone. The emails reach their recipients but when viewed in Sent Items there is nothing in the To field.
It is intermittent and we cannot recreate it at will. We run Exchange 2003.
Please forward me a solution too if it does not post here. Thank you! -
August 24, 2007 at 2:25 pm #2612954
Blank To field in Sent Items (IMAP)
by mcrudo · about 14 years, 11 months ago
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Just checking in…has anyone found a solution to this issue yet? We have a single user who is experiencing the same issue daily.
Problem:
-User uses Outlook 2003/SP2 @ desk
-When off-site, user uses a browser-based email (squirrel mail) to access email.
-When user returns to desk and opens Outlook, all of his sent items sent using Squirrel Mail have blank names in the “To” field until the user opens or previews each message in a reading pane.Any ideas about this?
Thanks,
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November 21, 2007 at 1:31 am #2629472
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by david_hymers · about 14 years, 8 months ago
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Anyone have a solution for this yet, I have a user who is getting this problem quite often.
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January 24, 2008 at 2:01 pm #2665174
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by robcne · about 14 years, 6 months ago
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After a LOT of searching I have gotten down to the bottom of this problem. There are actually 2 similar ways that this problem can occur. Both of them boil down to basically the same problem (lack of a Display Name).
1. When the user creates a new email the recipient’s address will come from the cache file. If the email address doesn’t contain a Display Name the Display Name ends up being “, and when you view the item in your Sent folder you’ll see a blank name.
2. When the user does a Reply/Repy-to-All and the address doesn’t contain a Display Name you’ll notice that the address is
. Note: The offenders are always displayed in “<" and ">“. You can correct #1. by updating your contacts that don’t contain a Display Name, so that future messages WILL contain one.
You can also correct #2 by being careful when using Reply. If you notice an address inside of “<" and ">“, right-click on the address, pick Outlook Properties…, and update the Display Name field.
If Outlook were a bit smarter then perhaps it would use the email address, if Display Name == “”, but until then keep an eye out, mainly when replying to email.
The following link helped me figure all of this out…
http://www.outlookpower.com/issues/issue200311/00001126001.html
Rob
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December 17, 2008 at 9:04 am #2972619
Same problem
by daniel.marquis · about 13 years, 8 months ago
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I have the same problem after recently migrating from Lotus notes to Outlook. One of our users when trying to search for certain emails in his ‘sent’ folder – the ‘to’ field is blank so he can’t find the mails he needs to. It is Outlook 2003 SP2 running alongside office 2002 on XP SP2.
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April 26, 2011 at 1:13 am #2880182
Blank To field in Sent Items
by mo76ine · about 11 years, 3 months ago
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we have the same problem with “Blank To field in Sent Items”
any help i appriciate thanks
Mo
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March 9, 2012 at 4:10 am #2441621
Same here
by insx72 · about 10 years, 5 months ago
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I have the same problem. Occasionally one of our users will send an email (the last one was a “reply to all”) and the sent item has no recipients (no internet headers at all). The email does not go anywhere. This could be really unfortunate if the message is urgent.
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