Haven't touched a thing but my Outlook has just downloaded duplicate copies of every email I've received between end of May and today :eek:

Anyone any clues what's happened? The only thing I changed yesterday was switching back to AVG 8 from Avast (which I deleted!)

Thanks.

sounds like they were not deleted off the server after you last downloaded.

It could be worse, a couple of weeks ago the office exchange server decided it would be a good idea to resend 20,000 emails that it had already sent upto 4 months before. we caught it after it had already sent 3000, but managed to stop 17000 entering the wild world for a second time.

It could be worse, a couple of weeks ago the office exchange server decided it would be a good idea to resend 20,000 emails that it had already sent upto 4 months before. we caught it after it had already sent 3000, but managed to stop 17000 entering the wild world for a second time.

Glad it's not as bad as that But it's also copied them to my Virgin webmail account. :( Let the deletion of 994 emails begin :eek:

It could be worse, a couple of weeks ago the office exchange server decided it would be a good idea to resend 20,000 emails that it had already sent upto 4 months before. we caught it after it had already sent 3000, but managed to stop 17000 entering the wild world for a second time.

How odd!

did you ever get to the bottom of that one manny?

How odd!

did you ever get to the bottom of that one manny?

Yes, sort of. it was the internet mail connector on the old exchange 5.5 box that all email is routed through. What seems to have happened is the email was delivered, and a software bug meant that the message was left in a pending state in the IMC and not deleted. We rebooted the server, because of another unrelated issue and the messages were sent again, but this time they disappeared from the pending queue.

To stop delivery, we had to disable our email filter (surfcontrol) which is after the exchange server and manually delete the 17,000 files from the outgoing queue before restarting the service.

Common issue on POP3.

Good reason to use IMAP if your email provider supports it.