Re: Duplicated Emails

When you say "outlook express keeps sending" do you mean you keep receiving messages sent by another party? Many possible reasons.

Duplicate messages.

For Hotmail, or IMAP accounts:

Tools>Options>General tab. Uncheck either: When starting, go directly to my Inbox folder or, Send and receive messages at startup.

For a POP3 account, see:
http://www.insideoe.com/problems/bugs.htm#pop3uidl

Do you have Leave a copy of messages on the server checked? Tools | Accounts | Mail | Properties | Advanced. Uncheck it.

Turn of e-mail scanning in your anti-virus program. It offers no added protection and can cause Time-outs. An Anti-Spam program can also be responsible for this. If that does not resolve the problem, please post the error message in its entirety.

Do not archive mail in default OE folders. They will eventually become corrupted. Create your own user defined folders for storing mail and move your mail to them. Empty Deleted Items folder regularly. Keep user created folders under 100MB, and Default folders as empty as is feasible.

After you are done, follow up by compacting your folders manually while working *offline* and do it often.

Click on Outlook Express at the top of the folder tree so no
folders are open. Then: File>Work Offline (or double click Working Online in the Status Bar). File>Folder>Compact all folders. Don't touch anything until the compacting is completed.

In Tools>Options>Maintenance: Uncheck Compact messages in background and leave it unchecked. {N/A if running XP/SP2}.
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Bruce Hagen
MS MVP - Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"Bob T" <BobT@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:DDAD9D55-29B0-4A55-B10C-22BCB7112CCA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
When I have read an email and delete it i outloook express keeps sending the
email so i end up with lots of the same emails . also when i check the inbox
i receive a message that POP3 has timed out and do i want to wait .


is this a Virus ? i have run my virus checker but it does not list any
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bob t 

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