Mail Delivery Status Notification

[Gloria E]

Mail notices are showing up stating: This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification. Delivery to the following recipients was aborted after 0 seconds.

The address noted is for one of my friends who changed her address weeks ago,the notice lists her old address. I send emails to her almost every day and she receives them and replies. Her address is listed correctly in my Address Book, so how is her incorrect address being found?

Is there some way to correct this error?

Gloria E

[HansV]

Check carefully for which message these notifications are. Sometimes, the mail system will try to deliver a message again and again if it fails. So it might be an old message from before she switched e-mail addresses.

[stuck]

Her address is listed correctly in my Address Book, so how is her incorrect address being found?
Gloria E

Have you checked to make sure that her old address is not in your address book?

Ken

[StuartR]

Is it possible that her incorrect address is in your nickname file?

I know that this can happen in Outlook, but I am not familiar with outlook express.

What do you see if you start typing your friend's name into the To: box?

[stuck]

Is it possible that her incorrect address is in your nickname file?

OE only has one address book file, it has a .wab extension but it can hold multiple entries for a person and display them as real names or nicknames. Autocomplete will match the address book in various ways and it is possible to select the wrong person. For example, if I start to type the first name of a friend, 'm', autocomplete first offers someone else whose first name begins with 'a' but with a surname beginning with 'm'

Also, once you get a name into the To field, you only see the name in what every format you've set to be dispalyed, the underlying email address is not shown

Helpful isn't it?

Ken