Header Forgery Attempt

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Claudette Hennessy

I am migrating to a laptop. I set up my email account on the laptop but the
test message was rejected with the error 'header forgery attempt'. I am
running Vista. What to do?
Claudette
 
The virus scanner is not scanning outgoing mail, and the email address is
correct.
The error in the test account settings reads: Send test email message: The
server responded:554 5.7.1 Header forgery.

Thank you,
Claudette
Diane Poremsky said:
Who rejected it? Do you use an antivirus scanner to scan outgoing email?
Do you have the email address typed correctly?

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Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]



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Claudette Hennessy said:
I am migrating to a laptop. I set up my email account on the laptop but
the test message was rejected with the error 'header forgery attempt'. I
am running Vista. What to do?
Claudette
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Claudette said:
I am migrating to a laptop. I set up my email account on the laptop but the
test message was rejected with the error 'header forgery attempt'. I am
running Vista. What to do?
Claudette
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Did you use the e-mail address for your account in the E-mail field in
the account you defined within Outlook? Some e-mail providers require
that you announce the same e-mail address in your e-mails as is the
e-mail address through the account you use to send the e-mail. That is,
the e-mail you claim is you in your e-mail must match the e-mail address
for your account. This would eliminate, for example, a customer of
Earthlink from claiming their e-mail address was at Hotmail.

What did the unindentified e-mail provider say when you asked them what
their error code meant?
 
Is both your version of Win & Office updated with critical updates?
Is your server provided by an ISP or are you hosting your own mail server?
And if you open outlook using the safe switch
Start>Run
Outlook.exe /safe
And send a test msg to yourself, is it successful, both in send & receive?

Claudette Hennessy said:
The virus scanner is not scanning outgoing mail, and the email address is
correct.
The error in the test account settings reads: Send test email message: The
server responded:554 5.7.1 Header forgery.

Thank you,
Claudette
Diane Poremsky said:
Who rejected it? Do you use an antivirus scanner to scan outgoing email?
Do you have the email address typed correctly?

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]



Outlook Tips by email:
mailto:[email protected]

EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange:
mailto:[email protected]

Let's Really Fix Outlook 2010
http://forums.slipstick.com/forumdisplay.php?f=34

Claudette Hennessy said:
I am migrating to a laptop. I set up my email account on the laptop but
the test message was rejected with the error 'header forgery attempt'.
I am running Vista. What to do?
Claudette
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Problem solved, an account with another ISP worked fine, so I knew the
problem was with the settings for the ISP server, I had not set the advanced
settings correctly. Thank you for your help.
Claudette
DL said:
Is both your version of Win & Office updated with critical updates?
Is your server provided by an ISP or are you hosting your own mail server?
And if you open outlook using the safe switch
Start>Run
Outlook.exe /safe
And send a test msg to yourself, is it successful, both in send & receive?

Claudette Hennessy said:
The virus scanner is not scanning outgoing mail, and the email address is
correct.
The error in the test account settings reads: Send test email message:
The server responded:554 5.7.1 Header forgery.

Thank you,
Claudette
Diane Poremsky said:
Who rejected it? Do you use an antivirus scanner to scan outgoing email?
Do you have the email address typed correctly?

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]



Outlook Tips by email:
mailto:[email protected]

EMO - a weekly newsletter about Outlook and Exchange:
mailto:[email protected]

Let's Really Fix Outlook 2010
http://forums.slipstick.com/forumdisplay.php?f=34

I am migrating to a laptop. I set up my email account on the laptop
but the test message was rejected with the error 'header forgery
attempt'. I am running Vista. What to do?
Claudette
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