My e-mail messages are being sent twice

[impellitteri]

I recently migrated my files and settings from my old Dell XP computer to my
new HP w/Vista Home Premium via "Windows Easy Transfer", (which, by the way,
was not all that "Easy")

I have two problems with "Windows Mail" on my new HP:

1 - My Email messages are being sent twice; i.e. my buddy John calls me up
and says Hey, I got two emails that are exactly the same. I have tested
this with several recipients and they all report that they receive the same
message twice:

2 - another unrelated problem, when sending an email on my old XP, after
typing in the first few letters of the recipient name, the system would fill
in the rest of the name from the Address Book. The new Vista system using
"Windows Mail" does not do this.

Any Help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

 

[Hal Hostetler [MVP P/I]]

Please see my answers inline...

Hal
--
Hal Hostetler, CPBE -- (e-mail address removed)
Senior Engineer/MIS -- MS MVP-Print/Imaging -- WA7BGX
http://www.kvoa.com -- "When News breaks, we fix it!"
KVOA Television, Tucson, AZ. NBC Channel 4
Live at Hot Licks - www.badnewsbluesband.com

I recently migrated my files and settings from my old Dell XP computer to my
new HP w/Vista Home Premium via "Windows Easy Transfer", (which, by the way,
was not all that "Easy")

I have two problems with "Windows Mail" on my new HP:

1 - My Email messages are being sent twice; i.e. my buddy John calls me up
and says Hey, I got two emails that are exactly the same. I have tested
this with several recipients and they all report that they receive the same
message twice:

There is a vey good chance your email account was duplicated during the
transfer. Go to 'Tools|Accounts|Mail' and see if your account was
duplicated.

2 - another unrelated problem, when sending an email on my old XP, after
typing in the first few letters of the recipient name, the system would fill
in the rest of the name from the Address Book. The new Vista system using
"Windows Mail" does not do this.

Windows Mail does do this after a fashion, it caches the last 29 email
addresses you send to.

 

[Mary B]

Please see my answers inline...

Hal
--
Hal Hostetler, CPBE -- (e-mail address removed)
Senior Engineer/MIS -- MS MVP-Print/Imaging -- WA7BGX
http://www.kvoa.com -- "When News breaks, we fix it!"
KVOA Television, Tucson, AZ. NBC Channel 4
Live at Hot Licks - www.badnewsbluesband.com



There is a vey good chance your email account was duplicated during the
transfer. Go to 'Tools|Accounts|Mail' and see if your account was
duplicated.


Windows Mail does do this after a fashion, it caches the last 29 email
addresses you send to.

 

[Gary VanderMolen]

Regarding the second problem, it is a known issue that the
auto-completing of email recipients does not work well in
Windows Mail. It works much better in the new and improved
Windows Live Mail: http://get.live.com/wlmail/overview