Hey computer people! So yesterday I was sitting at my desk [del]being productive[/del] reading the dope, when I looked up and saw that outlook started re-downloading some 300 plus emails. It would put the second copy right next to the original. Any thoughts on what would cause this?
Outlook 2007. Not set to leave messages on the server. McAfee,Ad-Aware, and Spybot S&D all on + up to date.
I’ve had this problem with messages that were left on the server and personally think that shouldn’t be an issue either, so I hope someone responds to this.
I think in my case what happened was that I had moved a batch of emails out of the in box to another folder and then back again. However I’m pretty sure that I did not in the process re-tag them as unread. Outlook seems to ignore that flag anyway since if I read an email online before the scheduled dl it will still dl.
I think that’s what happened. I ended up moving all of my current email into a folder, letting it re-download everything, deleting that and moving my old stuff back.
Wasn’t Comcast. My mail is on a server for my company, coming through Time Warner. Guess I just have to keep monitoring to make sure it doesn’t happen again. Didn’t re-send stuff to my iphone. Maybe the iphone is smarter than outlook.
Mine used to do this every time I opened Outlook. FWIW, I had it set to leave mail on the server. (multiple computers).
Never did figure it out.
Finally quit using Outlook altogether, for this and other reasons.
If you’ve set it not to save on the server and your PC has received, it wouldn’t show up on the iPhone b/c it’s already been removed from the server by then.