Outlook 2002 distribution lists cause duplicate emails

[RedSonyaMOS]

Oh, man! Today is NOT a good day!

When I got in to the office, the internet was down. Well, it wasn’t just down - the server had crashed, so we were incommunicado for the entire morning.

Now we’re back up, and I went to send out a message (in Outlook 2002 with internet email) using 4 of the distribution lists, and a few attachments.

The problem- some of the people who received it got up to 7 copies of the e-mail!!! Now, I checked the lists, thinking that maybe their names were duplicated, but nope.

This was a big e-mail size-wise. And, to top it all off, I kept on getting e-mails from sender MissLN/ITL%[email protected] with incident information!! It had “report to sender” in the subject line, and listed all the individuals e-mails on the distro lists.

WHAT HAPPENED?!?! I’m getting angry calls form members who just had their inboxes clogged with 5 copies of the same message!!!!

HELP- I’m here til 5!!!

 

[necro95]

Hi, Sorry to hear about this, but seems to me that you might want to recreate your PAB. it might be corrupted.

 

[Rockn]

Are these DL's in your personal address book or are they on your mail server? Were the emails also sent prior to the server going down?

 

[Bob Cerelli]

Hopefully you are keeping your distribution lists in your Contacts rather than a PAB file. The ability to have distribution lists in the Contacts was one of the nice changes since Outlook2000.

How is your mail being sent (e.g. directly to an ISP's e-mail server or one of your own).

How are you accessing the Internet and how does the server play a role it than. Generally I don't like to recommend proxy servers if possible since it is a lot more that can go wrong.