Well, we have 3 machines in our home business, for flexibility, we have two
lap tops and a desk top. Today, we installed MS updates, and right away,
started recieving duplicate emails - on the lap top only! And, only when it
is sleeping, and then re-starts. The desktop doesn't do it. The AV does not
matter, the timing doesn't matter, it is a microsoft issue with outlook. The
third laptop (running XP home) downloads duplicates constantly if it sleeps
and re-starts, but the other one just started today after some "updates"
coincidence, I think not.

"Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:

Gee, then how come turning off the email scanning stops the multiple emails?
If there was a bug in Outlook, it would still happen.

Still scratching MY head.


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After furious head scratching, CO-DBA-SC-EL asked:

| The truth is there is a bug in the way Outlook pulls the email from
| the server using POP3. The rest, about changing how often it checks
| mail, turning off AV, installing the hotfix etc. is just urban
| legend. There is a bug and the bug has not been fixed.
|
| C_O
|
|
| "Mark" wrote in message
| ...
|| Here is another possible cause of this problem, which I find among
|| many of the people I support.
||
|| If your Outlook (or Outlook Express) mail setttings for POP3 are set
|| to keep messages on the mail server and the mailbox on the mail
|| server exceeds 25MB, Outlook and Outlook Express may time out on
|| retrieving messages and start over to retrieve the messages again.
|| This also depends on your Internet connection speed and computer's
|| performance; if all messages are able to retrieve in Outlook or
|| Outlook Express before the timeout occur, this problem is not
|| visible.
||
|| The solution is to change your mail settings in Outlook or Outlook
|| Express not to keep messages on the mail server.
||
|| This also leads in to another problem, how to remove duplicate
|| e-mails in Outlook or Outlook Express.
||
|| "Brian Tillman" wrote in message
|| ...
||| Mahmoud wrote:
|||
|||| Dear, My Outlook 2003 is receiveing the same e-mails messages many
|||| times (every time the outlook 2003 send/receive) , it receives the
|||| messages again. I think there's a patch from microsoft to solve
|||| this problem, but I do not know where to get it
|||
||| Or, if Milly's idea doesn't help, to try a new mail profile or make
||| sure Office SP2 is installed.
||| --
||| Brian Tillman