How Does Outlook 2003 Know what POP Messages have been downloaded?

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Colin Higbie

My OL2003 keeps downloading the same messages. I'd asked about this before but
did not receive any help. Could someone point me at the file (under Netscape
it was called popstate.dat) that tells Outlook which messages it has
downloaded already?

I do not want to remove them from the server at the time of download and I
know that I should not have to. It should know which messages it has already
downloaded. I want to find the file that records this because I fear that it's
corrupt.

Any help would be most appreciated.

Thanks,
Colin
 
It is a hidden message in the PST file. Any chance you can remove/delete
the offending message a different way?
 
Yes, from a web browser, but it just happens again on a different message. I
don't think it's an offending message, this just seems to happen no matter
what messages I have. It doesn't happen if there are only a few messages in
the mailbox, but if it's got more than about 70, it starts repeat-downloading
them.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Colin

neo said:
It is a hidden message in the PST file. Any chance you can remove/delete
the offending message a different way?

--
Neo [MVP Outlook]
Due to recent events in spam and malicious programs, all e-mails sent to
this account will be deleted w/out reading.


Colin Higbie said:
My OL2003 keeps downloading the same messages. I'd asked about this before but
did not receive any help. Could someone point me at the file (under Netscape
it was called popstate.dat) that tells Outlook which messages it has
downloaded already?

I do not want to remove them from the server at the time of download and I
know that I should not have to. It should know which messages it has already
downloaded. I want to find the file that records this because I fear that it's
corrupt.

Any help would be most appreciated.

Thanks,
Colin
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I've been having something similar. Whenever I have a large number of
messages, it gets so far and hangs up. Then when I send/receive again it
downloads the same messages as the first time and hangs at the same point.
If I go online with the browser and delete some of the message mainly spam
then it's ok and will download mail ok. But the duplicate messages are
because it's hanging on one try and then starting over the next time. It's
happened to me a couple times since upgrading to Office 2003 a couple weeks
ago.

Colin Higbie said:
Yes, from a web browser, but it just happens again on a different message. I
don't think it's an offending message, this just seems to happen no matter
what messages I have. It doesn't happen if there are only a few messages in
the mailbox, but if it's got more than about 70, it starts repeat-downloading
them.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Colin

neo said:
It is a hidden message in the PST file. Any chance you can remove/delete
the offending message a different way?

--
Neo [MVP Outlook]
Due to recent events in spam and malicious programs, all e-mails sent to
this account will be deleted w/out reading.


Colin Higbie said:
My OL2003 keeps downloading the same messages. I'd asked about this
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before
but
did not receive any help. Could someone point me at the file (under Netscape
it was called popstate.dat) that tells Outlook which messages it has
downloaded already?

I do not want to remove them from the server at the time of download and I
know that I should not have to. It should know which messages it has already
downloaded. I want to find the file that records this because I fear
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that
it's
corrupt.

Any help would be most appreciated.

Thanks,
Colin
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same problem here.
then I use Express but after some messages download the same problem.
Useless, this 2003 Outlook junk.
As useless as the MVPs here.

Dave said:
I've been having something similar. Whenever I have a large number of
messages, it gets so far and hangs up. Then when I send/receive again it
downloads the same messages as the first time and hangs at the same point.
If I go online with the browser and delete some of the message mainly spam
then it's ok and will download mail ok. But the duplicate messages are
because it's hanging on one try and then starting over the next time. It's
happened to me a couple times since upgrading to Office 2003 a couple weeks
ago.

Colin Higbie said:
Yes, from a web browser, but it just happens again on a different
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message.
I
don't think it's an offending message, this just seems to happen no matter
what messages I have. It doesn't happen if there are only a few messages in
the mailbox, but if it's got more than about 70, it starts repeat-downloading
them.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Colin

neo said:
It is a hidden message in the PST file. Any chance you can remove/delete
the offending message a different way?

--
Neo [MVP Outlook]
Due to recent events in spam and malicious programs, all e-mails sent to
this account will be deleted w/out reading.


My OL2003 keeps downloading the same messages. I'd asked about this before
but
did not receive any help. Could someone point me at the file (under
Netscape
it was called popstate.dat) that tells Outlook which messages it has
downloaded already?

I do not want to remove them from the server at the time of download and I
know that I should not have to. It should know which messages it has
already
downloaded. I want to find the file that records this because I fear that
it's
corrupt.

Any help would be most appreciated.

Thanks,
Colin
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