Re: Duplicate Incoming POP Messages via Different Connections

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Thanks, again, for your help, Brian. See answers spliced into your message
below. -- JCW



"Brian Tillman [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:

"JCW" <JCW@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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DearANONYMOUS -- Thanks for taking the trouble to reply. Perhaps my mention
of two laptops (an attempt to explain the two different versions of Outlook)
was a red herring. I hope that tomorrow you will have time to read my
questions more carefully an appreciate that this phenomenon only involves
the
use of a single computer. -- JCW

What you described originally is far and away a two computer issue and I, too,
believed that's what you were describing. It's not typical of using multiple
networks with the same PC.

It obviously never occurred to me that anyone would object to receiving the
same incoming message on two different computers. (In fact, I count on it.
That's how I bring my home computer up to date when I return from a trip.
Rather than copying PST data from the traveling computer, as we discussed
recently in a separate thread, I just connect via the high-speed connection
at home and download all the messages again to the home machine. The present
problem #1 arises only when I carry my home computer on the road or use my
traveling computer from home. [Of course problem #2 arises any time I use a
telephone modem and find an oversize message on the server.])

What type of account are you using?

POP3, if that's what you mean. (I tried mention as many details as I
thought relevant in my original post.)

Are you using the exact same mail server
regardless of the network connection?

Yes, although as I mentioned in the original post, some mail servers require
different protocols when accessed from outside their own networks -- not
different servers but sometimes different ports and/or secure vs. open
authentication. I can't remember all these details at the moment, but let me
know what details you need and I'll dig them up when I have time. (I'm
leaving on another trip today and will be restricted to a telephone modem all
week, so I might not be able to access this site again until Sept. 20th.)

Are you starting the network connection
prior to starting Outlook?

Yes, when using the high-speed cable connection -- it's on all the time.
No, when using the dial-up connection. I only dial up (invoking the Windows
"connectoid" from outside Outlook) when I'm ready to send/receive, in order
to reduce telephone usage.

Do you change mail profiles at all?

No. Never have. (Although the two laptops obviously have different mail
profiles, as I said, this happens when only one laptop is in use and is moved
between locations.

--
Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]


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