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07-15-2007

What programs do you have for virus and spam?
Are the programs scanning incoming email?
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Ronald Sommer

"Natalie" <Natalie@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:BA0FB3C1-6E41-45B4-B7DF-28FF2BDBFF27@microsoft.com...
:
:
: "Gary VanderMolen" wrote:
:
: > The email client program sends the command to delete downloaded
: > emails from the server only after ALL emails have been successfully
: > downloaded. Sometimes there is a corrupted email on the server
: > which prevents the download from finishing, so the delete command
: > is not issued, and the same emails will be downloaded on the next cycle.
: > To fix this, you will have to use your provider's web interface
(webmail)
: > to look at the emails sitting on the server. The stuck one will
typically
: > be the largest, and will need to be deleted.
: >
: > Gary VanderMolen
: >
: > "Natalie" <Natalie@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:7E7777F0-B960-4A51-AC37-6661DC983DA8@microsoft.com...
: > > For some reason Windows Mail is not deleting SOME of the emails off of
the
: > > POP3 server that I have received into my inbox. The "leave a copy of
: > > messages on server" box is NOT checked in the advanced tab. The
messages
: > > that stay on the server are retrieved over and over again on every
: > > send/receive and my inbox gets filled with multiple copies of the same
: > > messages. Strangely, it does not happen to all inbound messages.
Does
: > > anyone have any of why this is happening?
: >
: >
: > Thanks Gary, this is happening to far too many of the messages I receive
(but not all). I have gone into webmail and manually deleted the offenders
to stop the constant inflow, but there has to be a reason this is happening.
As I write this reply I have already received 16 copies (I have check for
new mail set for 1 minute) of the post reply notification from Microsoft
regarding this issue (all having the same received time and date), but 3
other emails were transferred to my inbox with no issue. This is a new PC
with Vista and Windows Mail and I did not have this issue with my last PC
using Outlook Express. I have seen several other posts with the same issue,
but were described slightly differently. I wonder if there could be a
systemic issue with Windows Mail?

07-15-2007	#8 (permalink)
Ron Sommer n/a posts	Re: Windows Mail not deleting received mail from POP3 server What programs do you have for virus and spam? Are the programs scanning incoming email? -- Ronald Sommer "Natalie" <Natalie@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:BA0FB3C1-6E41-45B4-B7DF-28FF2BDBFF27@microsoft.com... : : : "Gary VanderMolen" wrote: : : > The email client program sends the command to delete downloaded : > emails from the server only after ALL emails have been successfully : > downloaded. Sometimes there is a corrupted email on the server : > which prevents the download from finishing, so the delete command : > is not issued, and the same emails will be downloaded on the next cycle. : > To fix this, you will have to use your provider's web interface (webmail) : > to look at the emails sitting on the server. The stuck one will typically : > be the largest, and will need to be deleted. : > : > Gary VanderMolen : > : > "Natalie" <Natalie@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:7E7777F0-B960-4A51-AC37-6661DC983DA8@microsoft.com... : > > For some reason Windows Mail is not deleting SOME of the emails off of the : > > POP3 server that I have received into my inbox. The "leave a copy of : > > messages on server" box is NOT checked in the advanced tab. The messages : > > that stay on the server are retrieved over and over again on every : > > send/receive and my inbox gets filled with multiple copies of the same : > > messages. Strangely, it does not happen to all inbound messages. Does : > > anyone have any of why this is happening? : > : > : > Thanks Gary, this is happening to far too many of the messages I receive (but not all). I have gone into webmail and manually deleted the offenders to stop the constant inflow, but there has to be a reason this is happening. As I write this reply I have already received 16 copies (I have check for new mail set for 1 minute) of the post reply notification from Microsoft regarding this issue (all having the same received time and date), but 3 other emails were transferred to my inbox with no issue. This is a new PC with Vista and Windows Mail and I did not have this issue with my last PC using Outlook Express. I have seen several other posts with the same issue, but were described slightly differently. I wonder if there could be a systemic issue with Windows Mail?
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