MS Outlook and "Reply All"

[RSLancastr]

We use MS Oulook 2003 where I work.

When I do a "Reply All" to an email I receive, it includes ME as one of the recipients.

Is there any way - preferences, etc. - to change this? I'll already have a copy in my Sent Items folder, which is where I would look for it.

It doesn't seem like it has always been this way, but perhaps I am misremembering.

Any help would be appreciated.

(By the way, telling me that there are better mail clients won't help. This is what we have to use here.)

 

[tkingdoll]

Hmm. Not that I've seen, as Reply To All replies to all recipients that received the email you are replying to, of which you are one. Can't you just manually remove your name? Or block emails from yourself?

It does seem like there should be a proper solution for this though.

 

[RSLancastr]

Yes, I could manually remove my name, but I'd rather not have to remember to do that, since I do about a dozen Reply Alls every day.

I could block emails from me, but I don't know if that would result emails from me to me being returned to me, which seems as though it would efeat the whole purpose.

I could also add to my list of rules a rule which would automatically delete any mails from me to me. This is what I'll do if I have to, but it seems like "Include yourself on Reply Alls" should be a preference, and that the default should be "No."

Hmm. Not that I've seen, as Reply To All replies to all recipients that received the email you are replying to, of which you are one. Can't you just manually remove your name? Or block emails from yourself?

It does seem like there should be a proper solution for this though.

 

[kevin]

No preference to change this that i've ever seen. you could also write a macro to do this and assign it to a button.

it only happens to me when i go into my sent items and do a reply all on a message I sent. On normal messages i receive it doesn't happen.

 

[RSLancastr]

it only happens to me when i go into my sent items and do a reply all on a message I sent. On normal messages i receive it doesn't happen.

You know, I believe that's how it worked for me up until the past few days! Now it even does it with normal messages I receive in my InBox.

I don't know of any changes made to my PC in recent days, but they do push auto-installs down from time to time.

Hmm.

I'll try rebooting, and see if that does it. Maybe something got whacked in memory.

 

[RSLancastr]

Okay, I found out the problem.

Apparently, yet another Robert Lancaster was hired by the company I work for (that makes three of us now). When someone was setting up the new guy's account, they screwed mine up somehow.

So when I was clicking Reply All, Outlook thought that the Robert Lancaster in the To: of the email I was replying to was a DIFFERNT Robert Lancaster than myself, and so put it/me into the distribution of the email I was creating.

Seems like they got it straightened out now. All I did was reboot.

Thanks for the help!

 

[BPSCG]

Okay, I found out the problem.

Apparently, yet another Robert Lancaster was hired by the company I work for (that makes three of us now). When someone was setting up the new guy's account, they screwed mine up somehow.

So when I was clicking Reply All, Outlook thought that the Robert Lancaster in the To: of the email I was replying to was a DIFFERNT Robert Lancaster than myself, and so put it/me into the distribution of the email I was creating.

Seems like they got it straightened out now. All I did was reboot.

Thanks for the help!

You can avoid this problem in the future. Just have your name legally changed to Adolf W. Hilter.

No need to thank me.

 

[Upchurch]

Another variation on this problem is that I've got multiple variations of my email address heading to the same inbox. If the email addy the use to send to me is not exactly the same as the one specified as my email in the account info, it treats it as belonging to another person and includes it in "Reply All". It be nice if you could specify alternat addy's for a single account, but I can tell you right now it isn't planned for the Outlook 2007 release.