outlook express... double

[reaver_51]

whenever i look at my e-mails on outlook express it doubles all the messeges. as in doubles i mean, theres two of the same messege.. can anyone help me?

[bosco]

Is it a hotmail account?

[reaver_51]

yes

[Force Flow]

Are you on dial-up?

[bosco]

Originally posted by reaver_51 yes

My hotmail account also does this in Outlook Express. I have a few POP accounts and a hotmail account all checked by Outlook Express. The hotmail account is the only one that does it(double). It did it in Win98, Win2000 & XP. I just deal with it. I don't know of a fix.

[ezeebob]

That can happen if your Hotmail or IMAP account is the default mail account and OE is configured to both open directly to the Inbox (which downloads headers automatically) and check for new messages when starting (which also downloads headers automatically). To stop the duplicates, simply choose one option or the other, but not both. Click Tools | Options, then remove the check mark for "When starting, go directly to my 'Inbox' folder" OR the check mark for "Send and receive messages at startup". If you already have duplicates showing, click Tools | Synchronize Account or Synchronize All.


If the above does apply to your situation there is another possible cause with file corruption. I can not recall the file responsible as I no longer use hotmail, however a search
of "messages downloaded twice" at hotmail help will give you the details.