My Outlook Express is receiving thousands of messages.. that are all OLD. What is wrong? Can I make it stop?

Question

Please help me! On Thursday afternoon my O.E. started saying it was receiving 1 of 16223 emails. Since this time it is receiving emails from last year multiple times. It has received all 16000+ at least twice and is now saying 15000 something. It is not receiving any recent emails though. Has anyone heard of this? Can anyone help?

I just looked over at my inbox. Before this happened I had like 1200 emails that had been read sitting in my inbox. Since this has started I have had a ton, and have been trying to keep them deleted. When I just looked, it only has 145 emails in it and they are just a few emails multiple times. So, like 25 emails but there are 5 each of them. HELP ME!




They aren't junk or spam. They are all emails from like family/friends. Fwds. pics. etc.


All of the emails have been received before. All were from known recipients.


Now.. it is saying that "there is not enough disk space" to receive any more emails.. but.. it also won't do anything.... WHAT HAS HAPPENED?

I've been paying close attention the last 30minutes or so and it seems to be receiving the same like hundred emails... over and over.

Answer 1

someone on your mailing list or,your computer has picked up a Mass mailing virus

go to http://www.moosoft.com download the cleaner,install and run it,,it's a free trojan/virus cleaning software program good for 30 days



http://www.moosoft.com/products/cleaner/download/

Answer 2

One thing I would do is to log in - directly- to your email account through your ISP and delete all of the old messages from their server. If you have them all on your local machine, you don't need extra copies on the ISPs servers.



This could take care of the problem completely. I have had a similar problem in the past. This will also take care of the problem of having an email "stuck" in your inbox (one that it tries to download over and over but never completes.)

Answer 3

it's really simple

when u configure your mail account u select an option to leave a copy of message on the server

so every time u connect to that server via outlook , it downloads all again

go to your account properties in outlook

go to advance tab and in delivery part uncheck "leave messages on server"

go to your inbox throw web (not outlook) and empty your inbox and mailbox

and be safe