Outlook Express keeps downloading emails
Each time I restart my pc – old emails come back into my inbox in OE. How do I stop this?
A long standing quirk in Outlook Express and its Vista equivalent, Windows Mail, is when it thinks it hasn’t downloaded a message properly it will start downloading everything again.
For instance, if there are a hundred messages waiting for you at your Internet provider and Outlook Express decided message 83 wasn’t received, even though it was along with the other message, it will assume all 100 messages need to be downloaded again.
And again, and again, and again.
The only way around this is to flush the mailbox so the offending message stops messing with OE.
You can do this two ways; the first is to log onto your ISP’s webmail page and delete all the pending messages in your inbox while the other is to install Mozilla Thunderbird and download the messages there.
Of the two, the webmail option is the best as you can be sure the mailbox is cleared out.
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June 6th, 2009 at 1:44 pm
I am unable to receive my G-Mail E-mails through Outlook express. OE is asking for user name and pass word and even though my user name and pass word are correct it is not receiving mails from Gmail site. But using the same user name and pass word I am able to access my e-mail from Gmail site. What should I do to get Gmail in my In-box of Outlook Express