receiving repeatdly all emails on the server

[lebanus]

Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) Processor: Intel Email Client: pop Hi,
Each time Entourage picks up emails from the server it retrieves all emails over and over.
I just reinstalled Entourage after the HD crashed. In previous installation Entourage just picked up new emails
I want to keep my emails on the server for back up.
Did I miss the proper setup?
Thanks for helping

 

[Diane Ross]

Email Client: pop Hi,
Each time Entourage picks up emails from the server it retrieves all
emails over and over.
I just reinstalled Entourage after the HD crashed. In previous
installation Entourage just picked up new emails
I want to keep my emails on the server for back up.
Did I miss the proper setup?

POP accounts have an option to "leave on server" but this is limited by
the ISPs account storage limit and the problem with multiple downloads.

If Entourage looses the message IDs, it will download again. If the
server reboots after they install a security update, all IDs will be
changed.

I suggest you switch over to IMAP accounts instead. If your ISP does not
offer IMAP there are free services that offer IMAP like fastmail.fm.

<http://fastmail.fm/mail/?STKI=365>

See this page for more info:

<http://www.ii.com/internet/messaging/imap/isps/>

 

[Allen Watson]

When this has happened to me, it has usually been for one of two reasons:

1. I have more than one email address, and one of them also forwards to
another, e.g., a Comcast address that gets picked up by my Gmail account. If
Entourage picks up both Comcast and Gmail, I get two copies of everything
sent to Comcast.

2. The remote server had a glitch or crashed, and they restored from backup,
which restored a bunch of messages showing as new that I had previously
downloaded before their crash.

If the problem persists for several days, call your ISP and ask if they are
having a problem that would cause this.