wrote:

I was running Outlook 2000 with no problems. I just upgraded to
Outlook 2002 as part of an installation of ActiveSync 4.1

ActiveSync V4.1 works with Outlook 2000 as well. You don't have to upgrade
if you don't wish.

I have 5 email accounts registered in Outlook, one of which is a Yahoo
account as part of the DSL package with SBC.

The install went fine. When Outloook went to check for new mail, it
downloaded one message from Yahoo that was a year old. I deleted it
and ten minutes later it downloaded it again. And then again...you
get the picture. Trying to find a solution, I thought I'd delete the
pop3 account settings and set it up from scratch.

Well, my problem now is that Outlook wants to download everything in
my Yahoo account which is over 1000 emails. How can I tell Outlook
that this account is synchronized? Only download new emails.

If the messages are in your Yahoo Inbox and Outlook doesn't realize it has
downloaded them before, it will download them. There's no way to "tell"
Outlook that the account is synched except by allowing Outlook to actually
download the messages.

If I were in this sitution, I would either move the messages on the server
to another server folder so that Outlook can't see them or create a rule in
Outlook that will move all the messages that come in from that account to
another Outlook folder and let Outlook download them one time. When it was
done, I'd disable the rule and delete the extra folder so that messages from
then on would behave correctly.
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Brian Tillman