Windows Phone Thoughts: Stop Sending Yourself Emails With Exchange ActiveSync

I started using Exchange ActiveSync in early 2005 with a Windows Mobile 2003SE PDA2K and it worked really well, but had one really annoying feature that neither POP3 nor IMAP4 accounts suffered from. When you hit "Reply All" it would include your email address in the header again and you'd get a copy of your own email in the inbox, even though it was in your Sent Items folder. Super annoying. It is relatively easy in Outlook to set up a rule to delete all emails from you. They are in your Sent Items folder anyway, and there is no need in downloading them again on your device or in Outlook.

This problem just went away for those of you with a Windows Mobile 5 device that has AKU2 installed, which includes MSFP.



Start ActiveSync on the device and go to Menu, Options. Select "E-Mail" and then tap Settings, then Advanced. You'll get the dialog box presented above. Type in your email address that you use with Exchange and that's it. You'll no longer get your own emails when you hit Reply All. Actually, the Inbox client still puts your email in there, but ActiveSync strips it out when it sends it. I am not sure why the fix to this problem is resolved in ActiveSync rather than just having Inbox not include your own address in there like it does with POP3 and IMAP4, but I'll take the fix any way I can get it. :D

Update: Well, this isn't working. I thought it had fixed the problem but then today i started getting replies to myself from "Reply All's" I've done, so I've reactivated my kill-filter on myself. :?