Mysterious autoforwarding...

[nelsonmanhattan]

Outlook 2010 is autoforwarding email messages but there is no corresponding rule under 'Manage Rules and Alerts' which requests that it does.

In sent items I can see a little 'i' information icon which then says "This message was Autoforwarded".

I wonder whether 'conversations' may be the culprit, but I cannot find any way of discovering where, how or why these messages get autoforwarded.

Anybody come across this type of gremlin?

 

[Diane Poremsky]

Conversations wouldn't forward. Are they messages you also replied to or just random messages?

 

[nelsonmanhattan]

Thanks for your interest and support; I thought I read somewhere that Conversations could autoforward, but I guess I imagined that.

Somehow last summer I initiated a forwarding request to copy members of my family with news I received regarding the election from a number of different PACs. I don't remember how I did it but can only assume that I set up a rule, as I understand how they work. Now that the election is over I no longer want to keep bombarding my family with these emails which now really interest only me. But there is no rule!!

Does Outlook have any other mechanism to Autoforward?

 

[Diane Poremsky]

In a pop3 account there is one way to autoforward: rules. Well, 2 - a VBA macro.

Rules are stored in the pst file if you use a POP3 account. The rule should be listed in the Rules wizard when you are in the account's inbox but if not, try closing Outlook then restarting with the /cleanrules switch.

Press windows key + R and type the following in the box then press Enter

outlook.exe /cleanrules

and see if that fixes the problem.

 

[nelsonmanhattan]

Thanks. Have done that. All my rules are gone. And hopefully the phantom rules as well! Will post once I have checked outgoings over the next day or so.