Outlook problem re-downloading duplicate emails

[griobhta]

Hey Folks,

I recently paid for pop acces to my yahoo account, been using it for to long to change it.

I recently set up Outlook 2003 as my PIM. I have set it not to delete from the server unless i delete it from outlook as I want to be able to access my email from different os's and access them still from the net. Besides as I get a minimum of 25mb of email space with the pop access there is no reason to keep it empty.

My problem is this. I recently reinstalled XP and Outlook and restored my pst file and now when I click on send/recieve it wants to download the 1120 odd emails that it has already in its inbox. It took me a long time to sort out the emails the first time. Is there any way I can get outlook to realise that it has already downloaded them? Can it compare the headers or something?

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[griobhta]

No takers????

[Fr4gm4n]

Hmmm, having same prob with a colleagues win 98 comp too..using outlook express so any tips would be useful.

Steve

[M_Six]

This happens to my wife who's using Outlook to download mail from her school's email server. She's using POP also, and is leaving a copy on the server.

As far as I've been able to tell, Outlook uses a certain time stamp to see if a mail had been previously downloaded. Apparently some email servers time stamp emails in a way that makes Outlook think they're new mail, so it downloads them again. It's a rare occasion with her, though.

I'm thinking whenever the server has a serious issue and needs to be rebooted, the time stamps get re-written and Outlook does its thing. I could be wrong, though.

[griobhta]

If your right M_Six and its possible that outlook will want to download these emails againg from time to time even if i do not reinstall that could be a BIG problem as the number of emails aint getting any smaller. 1200 and rising.

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[msdoss]

I had a similar problem where Outlook all of a sudden wasn't deleteing my mail and kept re-downloading messages over and over again....ended up to be a bad router. I plugged directly into my cable modem and my problem was gone. So purchased a new router and all is well. May be something to check.

[griobhta]

hmm The router has been behaving itself for the last few weeks although was a pain before that. Will have a think on that one.

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