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Phantom emails being sent

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by dustyd

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I am wondering about emails that Outlook 2003 reports it is sending when there are none in the outbox. This happens when send/receive is in progress. I have changed the port number for the outgoing mail server to stop them being sent, but want to find out what's up. This happens on only one identity I have set up. There are no messages in outbox in Outlook Express, which I don't use at all.

I am using Norton AV 2003, XP Pro XP2, both Adaware and Spybot S&D, and ZoneAlarm.

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by bfilmfan

Are you using Outlook 2003 in cached mode? That is normal behavior as it is synchronizing with the Exchange server at random intervals.

by dustyd

I'm not using Exchange. Workgroup PC on LAN. It does not contact ISP mail server until I do a 'Send/Receive'. Any way I can see what it is trying to send when nothing is in the outbox? Set up a local account for the smtp mail?

by abaidryk

some mail stuck in out box and deliver repeatedly through office outlook 2003/2007 on windows xp.then I deleted this mail from out box but users receive it repeatedly up to 150 times.
I am in trouble
plz help.
thanks

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