outlook express sends me double of all my e-mails....

[MrDudeMan]

i have a hotmail e-mail address, and i use outlook through winxp, but i had this same problem in win2k, so i know its not that. it sends me a duplicate of every e-mail i get....every single one.


when i delete one of them and close OE, it deletes both of them...so if i want to save one, i have to go back and get it out of the trash....

i know how to do it, so its not a big deal, but wtf is going on? why cant it send me just ONE copy of my e-mails?

thanks

 

[jpsj82]

all I can think of is you are checking your pop3 box two times everytime you download your mail - before the mail is deleted off the server. Check your mail accounts (in outlook) to see if you have two accounts that are the same, if you do you will check both accounts when you download new mail.

So it could be a pop3 problem, not yours, but I am not sure and can be 100% wrong.

 

[MrDudeMan]

ill go check that now...thanks for the info


even if you are wrong, that was a pretty intelligent guess

 

[MrDudeMan]

bump? anyone? it is still doing it

 

[crazychicken]

im not sure, does anyone know? mine does this too

 

[ojai00]

I had that same problem too. It might be that the message is still on the server, so everytime it checks for mail, it will download 2 copies of it (not sure if that made sense).

Anyhow, check this Knowledge Base article. It might be what you're experiencing.
OL2000: (IMO) Duplicate Mail Items on IMAP Server (Q212934)
My search results for "duplicate message" in Outlook

Hope this helps.

 

[MrDudeMan]

thanks for the lose links..that actually helped =)

 

[MrDudeMan]

its still doing it...anyone else got anything?

 

[MrDudeMan]

bump

 

[vailr]

If Outlook Express is already running and then a NEW e-mail is sent from someone, you don't get the "double message". So a cure would be to set Outlook Express to "open", but to not "check for new messages when opening". Once OE is open, then click on the "send/receive messages" button. As to why Microsoft hasn't fixed this problem: don't know.