Duplicate e-mails but different story

I live in the boonies thus bad lines, slow connection, lots of spam.

Sometimes I get a dropped connection (disconnect) while downloading
e-mails.

If this happens and I restart OE then restart the download, the
e-mails that I have already downloaded are downloaded again for
duplicates.

I have even seen triplicates.

I all messages are succesfully downloaded there are no duplicates

Is this a POP3 account? If you are downloading 20 messages and the process
stops before the download is completed, then all the messages will be
downloaded again the next time.

The first thing to do is to turn off e-mail scanning.

Turn off e-mail scanning in your anti-virus program. It is a redundant layer
of protection that eats up CPUs, slows down sending and receiving, and
causes a multitude of problems such as time-outs, account setting changes
and has even been responsible for lose of messages. Your up-to-date A/V
program will continue to protect you sufficiently. For more, see:
http://www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#3

Note that for some AV programs, it may be necessary to uninstall the program
and reinstall in Custom Mode and opt out of e-mail scanning when the option
arises.

Give that a shot and let us know.
--

Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA


"TomJoad" wrote in message
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I live in the boonies thus bad lines, slow connection, lots of spam.

Sometimes I get a dropped connection (disconnect) while downloading
e-mails.

If this happens and I restart OE then restart the download, the
e-mails that I have already downloaded are downloaded again for
duplicates.

I have even seen triplicates.

I all messages are succesfully downloaded there are no duplicates

That's the way POP3 is designed. In the event of a broken connection,
the server assumes the worst that all the messages downloaded were lost
and it resends everything on the next download.

If the messages are large, and your ISP offers web mail access, it might
be worth the effort to sign on to the web mail before downloading again
in OE and delete any messages that you already have. IF the messages
are small, it's probably quicker to manually delete the duplicates once
they hit OE.

--

Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm



"TomJoad" wrote in message
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I live in the boonies thus bad lines, slow connection, lots of spam.

Sometimes I get a dropped connection (disconnect) while downloading
e-mails.

If this happens and I restart OE then restart the download, the
e-mails that I have already downloaded are downloaded again for
duplicates.

I have even seen triplicates.

I all messages are succesfully downloaded there are no duplicates

Thanks for your help. I had hoped there was some setting that would
help me out.

Turned off the virus scan as you sugested and that really speeded up
the download process. Just have to put up now with Mcaaffee telling
me that I am not protected.

On Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:51:50 -0700, "Bruce Hagen"
wrote:

Is this a POP3 account? If you are downloading 20 messages and the process
stops before the download is completed, then all the messages will be
downloaded again the next time.

The first thing to do is to turn off e-mail scanning.

Turn off e-mail scanning in your anti-virus program. It is a redundant layer
of protection that eats up CPUs, slows down sending and receiving, and
causes a multitude of problems such as time-outs, account setting changes
and has even been responsible for lose of messages. Your up-to-date A/V
program will continue to protect you sufficiently. For more, see:
http://www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#3

Note that for some AV programs, it may be necessary to uninstall the program
and reinstall in Custom Mode and opt out of e-mail scanning when the option
arises.

Give that a shot and let us know.

You're welcome. Of course you are protected even if McAfee nags you. No way
to turn that off? Even if you reinstall and opt out of e-mail scanning?

Another black mark for McAfee. It's still not quite as bad as Norton, but
it's catching up. I'd get rid of it when your subscription is up and get
Avast, or AVG. Both free and OE friendly.
--

Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA


"TomJoad" wrote in message
...
Thanks for your help. I had hoped there was some setting that would
help me out.

Turned off the virus scan as you sugested and that really speeded up
the download process. Just have to put up now with Mcaaffee telling
me that I am not protected.

On Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:51:50 -0700, "Bruce Hagen"
wrote:

Is this a POP3 account? If you are downloading 20 messages and the process
stops before the download is completed, then all the messages will be
downloaded again the next time.

The first thing to do is to turn off e-mail scanning.

Turn off e-mail scanning in your anti-virus program. It is a redundant
layer
of protection that eats up CPUs, slows down sending and receiving, and
causes a multitude of problems such as time-outs, account setting changes
and has even been responsible for lose of messages. Your up-to-date A/V
program will continue to protect you sufficiently. For more, see:
http://www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#3

Note that for some AV programs, it may be necessary to uninstall the
program
and reinstall in Custom Mode and opt out of e-mail scanning when the
option
arises.

Give that a shot and let us know.