[The Ninja Pirate]

Was thinking about this last night and came to the same conclusion as tsimmons - it seems to be a 'new' way (to me) of transmitting spam.

Someone hits me with spam with the x-confirm-reading-to header filled in and then that spam appears to originate from me when I use Outlook to view that account. Effectively turns my account into a spambot for every piece of spam sent to that account with that header filled in.

Guess gmail looks common since they are either getting those addresses online somewhere or just spamming random username@gmail combos. Boo.

Glad I have no infection PO'd that I lost yesterday morning confirming that.

[Rich-M]

Originally Posted by valis

you'd be surprised, my friend.....I've had MBAM return zero hits, and run kaspersky on the same machine and turned up about 50 or so.....that's where the fun stuff lies.

Quite true and I have run Mbam, found nothing and then run Sas and found tons also...that's why we really cannot rely on one product, especially when we know the user has "0" safety skills ( I don't mean this user in this thread though).

[LamaZ]

Well, mystery solved then. I went into my junk mail via web mail and deleted everything in there. Added a filter for all of the addresses spamming me and brought Outlook back online.
I know this is just a temporary fix, because the next waive of spam will do it all over again until Microsoft ever fixes this "Feature".

LamaZ

[dockman3]

I've been having this same issue, and after reading all of the posts, I went ahead and unsubscribed from the Gmail/Spam folder and Gmail/All mail folder in my IMAP folders account setting. This seems to have fixed the problem since Outlook no longer has any way to receive spam that Gmail catches. Since Gmail catches the vast majority of spam I receive, this should be a relatively permanant fix until MS fixes it for good.

[tommyk_mn]

I am having the exact same issue.

I am trying to unsubscribe from Gmail's spam and allmail folders. We will see if the emails stop from my outlook!

[helmetheadcycle]

It seems that all of us are using GMail with IMAP sync and Outlook.

I've created a filter in Gmail, by going to Settings -> Filters -> Create a new filter -> Subject: Not Read -> Delete It (checkbox)... Create Filter

You should then be set. This bug has plagued me since I first saw it, thinking we were hijacked...

Thanks to everyone in this thread for the information culminating to this hopeful fix!

And to anyone who happens to ride...you know where to go!

[IbnTech]

Hi all,

Just wanted to join the legions of people this is happening to.

Someone was asking why the sent mail is not being saved in outlook. It actually is. It is being saved in the gmail sentmail folder and not outlook's.

So far symptoms and analysis is in full agreement with the "x-confirm-reading-to header" hypothesis.

Can someone please tell me how I can disable (or unsubscribe) to the all/junk folder in gmail from outlook?

[brianstuckey]

I found this forum while researching the problem described here. I don't have the problematic computer with me...but but I have an idea. What about unsubscribing from the spam IMAP folder in Gmail?

Click on the Email account the the Mail Folders view.
Right click on the top level > click on IMAP Folders
Click on Query
Select the spam folder and click unsubscribe

I will post the results once I can try this out in person...

EDIT: it looks like IbnTech and I were thinking along the same lines

[AKAJohnDoe]

Am I allowed to post to this thread with more than one post?

[valis]

apparently. I've done it a few times.

we'll leave it open for a bit and let them haggle it out. Who knows, something may turn up.

thanks, akajd......

[AKAJohnDoe]

It's cool. Just wondering why folks with more that one post are not having this problem.

[valis]

Probably the usual reasons.