Can't help with this, but I have it as well with my hotmail account (only my junk stuff not proper email so it doesn't hit my friends at all). It keeps saying I've got my vacation set to on, so is sending a junk spam email out to everyone, even though I've set it to off in my options.
Can't seem to change it.
Don't know if your daughter's issue is with hotmail as well.
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