Duplicates x 100

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Office 2003 SP 1

Incoming Pop3
Mail is NOT held at the Pop3 server.
Have deleted all Rules and this did not resolve the problem.
Have 3 programs to stop spy and ad-ware.
Norton Antivirus 2004.

Problem: Receiving hundreds of spam emails daily. These hundreds are
duplicated hundreds of times. Outlook gets clogged and will not download
from catalog.com. What few emails that do arrive are duplicated and when I
delete them in Outlook, they return, but do no allow any of the others at
catalog.com to arrive. I look at my mail at catalog.com and there are no
duplicates but all the spam is there of course.

How can I 1. stop the duplicates and 2. stop all the spam?

Thanks
 
You probably have dupes since NAV detected a virus and caused Outlook to
barf on the download.
Purge your mailbox using something like Magic Mail Monitor:
http://mmm3.sourceforge.net/
or use another email client (watch out for viruses in them).
I disable email scanning due to this issue.

As for the spam - once you start receiving a lot all you can do is mange it
or use another email address. Outlook Junk Filter set to High is quite good.
You can find other 3rd party spam applications.
 
The reason you are getting duplicate email is because every time your
computer is interrupted while downloading the email, it starts over. I
learned this the hard way. What you really need to do is try and change your
email address and make the email that you are using now forward to a hotmail
type account so you can permanently report them as spam. These type of email
have very good spam protection ... so good that a lot of times the email you
want ends up in junk. Maybe a few months from now you can go back to using
your email as the junk will stop coming when it gets trashed. Just notify
anyone who has your email that you are changing it. This is the quickest and
easiest way to get rid of the junk and have your email back.
I am not promoting anything here but I personally use www.qurb.com it's now
called something like esecurity but this has been a great program for spam
email. You may want to read about it as I have tried many spam programs
myself. This is a totally different way of stopping it from getting to the
mail you want to receive. Anyway, I hope this helps. Good Luck.
 
WayneS said:
Office 2003 SP 1

Incoming Pop3
Mail is NOT held at the Pop3 server.
Have deleted all Rules and this did not resolve the problem.
Have 3 programs to stop spy and ad-ware.
Norton Antivirus 2004.

Problem: Receiving hundreds of spam emails daily. These hundreds are
duplicated hundreds of times. Outlook gets clogged and will not download
from catalog.com. What few emails that do arrive are duplicated and when I
delete them in Outlook, they return, but do no allow any of the others at
catalog.com to arrive. I look at my mail at catalog.com and there are no
duplicates but all the spam is there of course.

How can I 1. stop the duplicates and 2. stop all the spam?

Thanks
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Do you have web access to the email account? if so, delete everything there
so outlook is working with a clean mailbox. If outlook's download process
hangs it can't delete the mail from the server (or doesn't mark it as
downloaded if leaving mail on the server). This is often the result of
scanning incoming email for viruses and spam by 3rd party programs.

The best antispam option is enabling antispam filtering on the mail server
and set outlook's junk mail filter to high - and keep it updated (new
definitions are released monthly). Disable email scanning by the other
programs.

FWIW, 3 antispyware programs are overkill unless you hang out on "the bad
side of town" or lack common sense. Norton with *current antivirus*
definitions (and email scanning disabled), along with windows and outlook
updates will be sufficient to protect you (oh, and a firewall enabled).
FWIW, Outlook 2003 is at the SP3 level so you are years behind in updates.
Set Windows update to automatic updates for all Microsoft software or
download SP3 at
http://www.microsoft.com/Downloads/...49-3E13-433B-B9D2-5E3C1132F206&displaylang=en.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]



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