"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?
Email scanning should be turned off in any anti-virus. It provides no
protection not provided by the regular resident protection. Beside that,
McAfee and Norton are not compatible with Windows Mail.
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Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM
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