Have 33000+ emails HELP!!!!

[Guest]

Just walked in and found out a pc received 33000 emails since Friday. Some
e-mails have been received almost 400 times! Any ideas what is causing this
and how to prevent it..and how to fix it as well?

Thanks

 

[BillR [MVP]]

Multiple downloads of the same messages? spam?
If it is the first then try and purge the server by downloading all from a
new profile.

 

[Guest]

No it's not spam....these are multiple addresses that are unique but
duplicated if that helps any

 

[ProfDD]

I assume that the problem is to avoid accidentally discarding good mail
in the effort to clean out the in-box. Doing so manually is tedious
and a little risky. You could use rules to eliminate the tedium and
dramatically reduce the risk. Because rules don't run fast, you might
find time for a few rounds of Hearts between runs.

First, turn off incoming mail if you haven't done so already. Back up
any exisiting rules and delete them. Then create a new mail folder to
hold everything you want to keep.

If you want to keep an e-mail, move a copy to the new folder. Then,
create a rule to delete anything that is identical to the e-mail in as
many regards as you think prudent so as to avoid deleting messages that
are not exact duplicates. Run that rule and delete it. Proceed to
next duplicated e-mail and repeat the process described in this
paragraph.

Once you are done, restore rules and folders to their normal states.

 

[Guest]

Thanks. This was very helpfull in the cleanup process. Now if I can only
figure out why this happened.....