Vista - Occasionally WLM will download all old POP3 messages from a Yahoo

About every day WLM will just start downloading thousands and thousands (like
50,000+) of old emails from a POP3 Yahoo account. These emails aren't even
on the server. It is really annoying because I have to go cancel the sync
process to get my regular emails and to have it send emails. If I forget to
do this sometimes emails won't get sent for hours and hours.

This never happened with WLM v12. Can I revert to 12?

You have two different problems (unwanted synchronization with
your Yahoo account - and "50,000+ of old emails from a POP3 Yahoo
account").

Firstly, I don't understand how WLMail can download messages, if
they really aren't present on the server. I suspect that there
could be many messages that are still on the server - and there
is a problem with one message, which is preventing the download
from completing properly. A very large or corrupted message
could cause this problem.

And if download does not complete properly, your mail client will
not delete downloaded messages from the server. Then, your mail
client (WLMail) will attempt a further download, next time it
connects to the POP3 server.

Can you use your browser to access the Yahoo account via a
webmail interface? If so, sign in - and check the content of
your Inbox. If necessary, you may need to delete messages - or
move them to a different folder on the webmail interface.

To deal with unwanted synchronization, you can prevent WLMail
from downloading messages on startup. You can also prevent
WLMail from polling for messages from the Yahoo account.

1. Click on Tools / Options / General. Uncheck the box marked
"Send and Receive Messages at startup". You can also alter or
turn off the setting to "check for new messages every xx
minutes".

2. Then, click on Tools / Accounts - and select the Yahoo
account. Click on Properties and remove the check from the box
marked "Include this account when receiving mail or
synchronizing". Even if you disable automatic synchronization
for this mail account, you will still be able to use manual
synchronization.



"Keith" <Keith@newsgroup> wrote in message
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WLM or any POP3 mail client, can only download messages from the Yahoo
Inbox folder, and optionally the Spam/Bulk folder. The latter is
controlled by settings on the Yahoo web interface.

If your anti-virus program is set to scan e-mail as it downloads, or you
are running an anti-spam program, that program presents itself to WLM as
the mail server. If that program has stored the messages somewhere,
then it could be telling WLM that these messages are available for
download.

--

Mike - http://TechHelp.Santovec.us



"Keith" <Keith@newsgroup> wrote in message
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"Michael Santovec" <michael_santovec@newsgroup> schreef in bericht
news:uhMwsi#XKHA.1268@newsgroupHi,
I have sometimes a simaular problem.
It happens that one of my accounts (always the same) doesn't stop receiving
messages and i have then to stop it manually.
There are no messages left on the server (also pop3)
The relates messages are stored in a map, but i see no reason why they
should come from there.
The account is only used to receive a newsletter from a certain site, so i
was suspecting that site but now i am reading all that i do believe there is
somewhere a bug.
Regards
Huib

Are you certain the WLM is not trying to migrate/import messages from your prior email client message store ?

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...winston
ms-mvp mail

"Keith" <Keith@newsgroup> wrote in message news637210B-8440-4B55-8C8C-20A36C266C35@newsgroup

"Keith" wrote:
I was out for today and came back and saw it was in the middle of
downloading messages like described above. Except this time it was at
252,000 yes, that's right, 252 THOUSAND emails. It kept going up.

I think there is a serious bug in the software.

If not on the server....where might they be stored ? Your machine ?
What were your prior email clients(note plural) and how long were they in use on the same machine ?

--
...winston
ms-mvp mail

"Keith" <Keith@newsgroup> wrote in message news:218BB1E7-BFF7-4F08-A055-10BF53518919@newsgroup

Hi,
On that one i didn't think yet.
I have still Windows Mail on my machine but in the inbox there no messages
left they are only in available in maps.
But how could that take place?
How can i check if they would really come from my previous e-mail program?
The problem is that i don't have it at any start-up but it happens
regularly.

Regards
Huib

"...winston" <winstonmvp@newsgroup> schreef in bericht
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