Old e-mails keep on coming in..

A friend has the following problem since yesterday.
Each time he opens WLM, he gets up to 1600 e-mails in his inbox, all
marked as "not read".
He deletes them all, completely, but the next time all these e-mails
come in again. And again, and again...
What is going on??

Is this a Hotmail account or a POP accounf via your friend's ISP?
Is this a newly configured account in Windows Live Mail?
Let's assume that it is a new PC with WLMail connecting using POP/SMTP
to an ISP mail service.
On all PCs that your friend uses to access his mail, go to the
advanced account settings for the account and uncheck the leave a copy
of messages on server settings.
-steve
p.s. This newsgroup only exists on servers that don't honor the remove
group message. Microsoft discontinued the nntp newsgroups a few years
back. Help and Support for Windows Live products and services can be
found at http://windowslivehelp.com


On Sun, 22 Jan 2012 09:01:54 +0100, Carpe Diem <> wrote:

>A friend has the following problem since yesterday.
>Each time he opens WLM, he gets up to 1600 e-mails in his inbox, all
>marked as "not read".
>He deletes them all, completely, but the next time all these e-mails
>come in again. And again, and again...
>What is going on??
>

"Carpe Diem" <> wrote in message
news:SnPSq.9158$2...
>A friend has the following problem since yesterday.
> Each time he opens WLM, he gets up to 1600 e-mails in his inbox, all
> marked as "not read".
> He deletes them all, completely, but the next time all these e-mails
> come in again. And again, and again...
> What is going on??
>


Is this a POP3 account? In Options | Accounts | Mail Account | Properties
| Advanced Tab, uncheck: Leave a copy of messages on the server.

Also, if it is checking for messages, let's say every 5 minutes, and the
messages don't finish downloading in 5 minutes, they will start over from
the beginning, so the minutes may need to be raised temporarily.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Oct. 1, 2004 ~ Sept. 30, 2010
Imperial Beach, CA

More info please.

1. Operating system (XP, Vista, Windows 7) ?
2. WLM version (2011 or 2009) ?
3. First install of WLM (which of the following apply) ?
- Yes/No
- On a new machine (no prior mail or news client installed)
- On on old machine (Outlook Express or Vista Windows Mail or prior version of WLM)



--
....winston
msft mvp mail


"Carpe Diem" wrote in message news:SnPSq.9158$2...

A friend has the following problem since yesterday.
Each time he opens WLM, he gets up to 1600 e-mails in his inbox, all
marked as "not read".
He deletes them all, completely, but the next time all these e-mails
come in again. And again, and again...
What is going on??

Carpe Diem a écrit :
> A friend has the following problem since yesterday.
> Each time he opens WLM, he gets up to 1600 e-mails in his inbox, all marked
> as "not read".
> He deletes them all, completely, but the next time all these e-mails come in
> again. And again, and again...
> What is going on??

I thank everyone for the assistance !!
The problem is solved thanks to the answer of Bruce Hagen.

"Carpe Diem" <> wrote in message
news:jGgTq.748$2...
> Carpe Diem a �crit :
>> A friend has the following problem since yesterday.
>> Each time he opens WLM, he gets up to 1600 e-mails in his inbox, all
>> marked as "not read".
>> He deletes them all, completely, but the next time all these e-mails
>> come in again. And again, and again...
>> What is going on??
>
> I thank everyone for the assistance !!
> The problem is solved thanks to the answer of Bruce Hagen.
>


You're welcome.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Oct. 1, 2004 ~ Sept. 30, 2010
Imperial Beach, CA