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email sent to wrong address

  • 24-08-2007 12:45AM
    #1
    tech77
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,736 ✭✭✭


    Hi.
    I tried to send an email from my pop Gmail account in Outlook Express to my sister's Yahoo account today.
    However the mail i sent came back to my own account on a subsequent send/receive.

    No failure notice just the original email.
    Is this common.

    My sister's yahoo email address is quite similar to my gmail address-
    Would this have anything to do with it.

    I am concerned specifically about any emails i send/receive going to the wrong (but similar) address.

    Any help is appreciated.
    Thanks.
    (Feel free to move my post if deemed not security-related enough btw).


Comments

  • #2
    ethernet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 3,519 ✭✭✭ethernet


    It's fine -- same thing happens me when I send using gmail's webmail and then check using an email client. There's probably a setting you can change on the gmail site. I just drag and drop into my sent folder.

    I suppose you could set up a rule to do this -- if the sender is you [your gmail address], move to a specified folder.


  • #3
    JohnnieM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 716 ✭✭✭JohnnieM


    Yeah its the gmail setting.. it mails you a copy of your popmail..


  • #4
    tech
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,871 ✭✭✭tech


    is it possible to stop gmail doing this copy of the sent mail, its quite annoying :(


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