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thank you, that’s a good idea.

If I get an answer I will let you know

Yeah, I guess that’s the easiest solution.

I just always want to know why so that I can fix it rather than work around a problem.

Thanks

I guess that’s the question that I am asking.

When I get the duplicate emails, if I go to Task Manager, I can see that there are two instances of Outlook running. If I End Task on one of them, they both close.

At the end of the day when I close Outlook, I am assuming that the program is closing. The entry on my Task Bar closes. I guess what I’ll have to do is have a look to see if it closes in Task Manager.

The recipients are not all on the same site, but they all use the same domain name. The domain name for the sender is different. The ISP is sometimes the same, sometimes not. The host for the domain names, and the mail servers, is the same one.

I have asked them to look at their logs, but they are not happy about this, and have put it low on their priority list.

The sender resent the message to each address individually and this has met her needs in the short term. She says that it is not a frequent occurrence, but has happened once or twice before.

Thanks

… and a few answers
1. Yes the items do appear in her sent items list
2. The recipients are all using either Outlook or Outlook Express
3. The senders outgoing mail is SMTP through the mail server for our ISP – I dont know what product they use. The recipients incoming email is POP3.
4. I do not know if there are any email spam filters in place, but I will check that as far as I can.

I understand that read receipts are not as reliable as we would like across differnet systems, but generally they work between these two organisations.

Thanks for asking more to follow this through.

No, I dont believe that is the problem. Her list of recipients is only 20 at max.

I, too, was surprised that there was no references in Technet.

Thankyou for the responses. I deleted the machine off the domain and recreated it and it is fine. A simple solution.

I, too, was surprised that there was no references in Technet.

Thankyou for the responses. I deleted the machine off the domain and recreated it and it is fine. A simple solution.

No, Joe, no more reason to be worried about permissions, just about being such a dork!!

It was the permissions on the sharing that were the issue. I set that to full control and bingo.

Thanks for your help. Having someone to ask questions of made me use the right words and really think about the problem. It is something that you miss as a sole operator in an IT role.

Thank you

No, Joe, no more reason to be worried about permissions, just about being such a dork!!

It was the permissions on the sharing that were the issue. I set that to full control and bingo.

Thanks for your help. Having someone to ask questions of made me use the right words and really think about the problem. It is something that you miss as a sole operator in an IT role.

Thank you

Do you mean a local administrator? or an account for me on the local machine? I thought that I could not log on locally to the server with anything past win2k. I have a local adminstrator. I tried the creation of the folder while logged on as the local admin, but had the same issue of not being able to change the read only attribute.

I have looked more closely at the set up, and there’s more.

The directory I was trying to create was on d: The whole of d: is read only, as is c:

But I can create directories and copy files to the directories so I can obviously write to those. My problem comes when users wish to access the accounting files. That accounting file will not open because it claims it is read only …. and I cannot change that attribute at any level.

Do you mean a local administrator? or an account for me on the local machine? I thought that I could not log on locally to the server with anything past win2k. I have a local adminstrator. I tried the creation of the folder while logged on as the local admin, but had the same issue of not being able to change the read only attribute.

I have looked more closely at the set up, and there’s more.

The directory I was trying to create was on d: The whole of d: is read only, as is c:

But I can create directories and copy files to the directories so I can obviously write to those. My problem comes when users wish to access the accounting files. That accounting file will not open because it claims it is read only …. and I cannot change that attribute at any level.

Hmmmm. I was hoping not to have to do that just yet.

I have inherited an extremely bad implentation of NT where some users are in the domain, others are not etc.

My plan was to get some of the shared folders across to the new machine to prove some other points about implementation (no need to go into those here).

And, as always, I was hoping there would be an easy answer. I hae seen this before when I had to shift profiles from local (machine) to domain. I would copy the local profile into a folder on the client machine and then copy desktop and start menu items when logged on with the domain profile. When I tried to import messages in Outlook express I found that the folder was read only. I was able to copy just that folder to the root of the drive, and by doing that I was able to change the Read only attribute.

So I have tried that again on the server, and have not been able to get it to work. I have tried creating the account from another machine (so that I am the owner) but still no joy. If I try to set Full Control for Creator Owner, that does not stick either.

So, maybe you are right, AD here I come. Goodbye weekend.

Hmmmm. I was hoping not to have to do that just yet.

I have inherited an extremely bad implentation of NT where some users are in the domain, others are not etc.

My plan was to get some of the shared folders across to the new machine to prove some other points about implementation (no need to go into those here).

And, as always, I was hoping there would be an easy answer. I hae seen this before when I had to shift profiles from local (machine) to domain. I would copy the local profile into a folder on the client machine and then copy desktop and start menu items when logged on with the domain profile. When I tried to import messages in Outlook express I found that the folder was read only. I was able to copy just that folder to the root of the drive, and by doing that I was able to change the Read only attribute.

So I have tried that again on the server, and have not been able to get it to work. I have tried creating the account from another machine (so that I am the owner) but still no joy. If I try to set Full Control for Creator Owner, that does not stick either.

So, maybe you are right, AD here I come. Goodbye weekend.

I have been right clicking the folder, selecting Properties, and then going into both the permissions for sharing and the security settings.

Am I not in the right place?