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Outlook 2007downloading all new AND old emails from pop3 account. Only want NEW!!

I have two email accounts that download to Outlook. One is gmail, and that is working fine. My other one is a business account, managed by bluehost, and it recently started downloading all my emails. Not just new. So emails that I have already read and left in inbox, or filed them, or deleted them. They are all coming back. I need to stop this madness. For the time being, I had to manually stop all incoming emails for this account. I have checked all my settings, restarted computer, looked for updates, and anything else I could check on Outlook.

This also happened a couple years ago, and I think the Outlook tech support had me move all my files to a new folder, then clear my profile and open a new one, but I was hoping there was a simple setting to fix or update. I don't want to take the chance of starting anything over. Please help!

Thanks.

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Sridhar Cherukuri

This is not the outlook problem

Reason 1:

When your hostin company upgrades the mailserver or move the mail server into another then all your existing emails will be downloaded again

Reason 2:

When you configure the email account in the new machine or format the exisiting machine and configure the outlook then all the emails will be downloaded again

Solution:

Delete all the downloaded emails from your webmail inbox if you dont need them, Or create a folder in the webmail and move all the emails which you have already downloaded into your outlook.

ohmetw

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I went with option #3, as I have tons of emails in my inbox. It was a shaky task to complete, but I did it, and all is well again. Thank you!!!!