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WendyS | 11:13 Mon 13th Nov 2006 | Internet
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I use Outlook Express for my email and often find that when I'm the recipient of group emails sending me jokes, lots of people I don't even know are being added automatically to my address book, which I don't want.

Is there some setting on my system I can use to prevent this happening? Thanks.

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G'Day Wendy

Do you reply to the group mails by clicking on Reply or Reply to All?

If so, the reason they are all being added to your Address Book is probably a setting in Outlook Express (OE).

Anyway, to check, open OE then left click on Tools|Options|Send tab and then see whether the Automatically put people I reply to in my Address Book has a tick (checkmark); if it has, click in the box to remove it then click Apply|OK and close OE. This change will take place the next time you open OE.

Other than that I cant think of any other reason.

Geoff
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Many thanks Geoff. This was exactly what was causing the problem. Have now changed the default and this will save me a lot of time, regularly going through my address book and deleting all the unknowns.

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