hotmail via outlook express excessive inbox

[johngood_____]

I access my hotmail email account via outlook express.

When I do a 'send receive' and it comes to 'Download all messages from
inbox', instead of the one or two that I might expect to have; it starts
downloading over a thousand.

This is not a sudden rush of spam coming in, but is downloading my existing
inbox messages again.

Thanks for any advice in stopping this excessive download coming in.

 

[Beauregard T. Shagnasty]

I access my hotmail email account via outlook express.

When I do a 'send receive' and it comes to 'Download all messages from
inbox', instead of the one or two that I might expect to have; it
starts downloading over a thousand.

How long has it been accumulating these thousand messages?

This is not a sudden rush of spam coming in, but is downloading my
existing inbox messages again.

Log in to the web interface and delete the obvious spam. Log back out,
then start Outlook Distress and download the rest (the good mail).

OE is known for getting itself stuffed up if there is a mail with
malformed headers. It just stops, and of course won't tell the server it
has already downloaded what it had.

Modern email clients don't have this problem. Consider upgrading to
Thunderbird.
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/

 

[Elmo]

I access my hotmail email account via outlook express.

When I do a 'send receive' and it comes to 'Download all messages from
inbox', instead of the one or two that I might expect to have; it starts
downloading over a thousand.

This is not a sudden rush of spam coming in, but is downloading my existing
inbox messages again.

Thanks for any advice in stopping this excessive download coming in.

In Tools, Accounts, open the Properties of the Hotmail account, click
the Advanced tab, deselect "Leave a copy of messages on server".

If that doesn't help, try an OE newsgroups, or Hotmail support.

 

[johngood_____]

How long has it been accumulating these thousand messages?


Log in to the web interface and delete the obvious spam. Log back out,
then start Outlook Distress and download the rest (the good mail).

OE is known for getting itself stuffed up if there is a mail with
malformed headers. It just stops, and of course won't tell the server it
has already downloaded what it had.

Modern email clients don't have this problem. Consider upgrading to
Thunderbird.
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/
-bts

Thanks. Went to the web interface as you suggested, and it shows no new
mails of any kind coming in at all. Any further ideas please?

 

[johngood_____]

In Tools, Accounts, open the Properties of the Hotmail account, click the
Advanced tab, deselect "Leave a copy of messages on server".

If that doesn't help, try an OE newsgroups, or Hotmail support.
Joe =o)

Thanks to all. i've found a right click on the inbox folder > properties

synchronize tab > then changing option from *all messages (headers and

bodies)* to *new messages (headers and bodies)* seems to have done the
trick.

There is a third option *new headers*. What would be the difference be
between choosing that and the one i changed to; *new messages (headers and
bodies), please?

 

[Elmo]

Thanks to all. I've found a right-click on the inbox folder > properties
bodies)* to *new messages (headers and bodies)* seems to have done the
trick.

There is a third option *new headers*. What would be the difference be
between choosing that and the one I changed to; *new messages (headers and
bodies), please?

It possibly wouldn't download (synchronize) the body of the message till
you opened the message.

 

[PA Bear]

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