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Posted on Mar 25, 2009

My outlook downloads all the mails from the inbox

Hi, i am using microsoft outlook 2003. i have configured my outlook to receive mails directly from my yahoo id. the problem is every time when i click the send/receive button, it downloads all the mail from my yahoo inbox, even though it has been downloaded earlier. Please help me as all the mails are being duplicated and it is taking considerable amout of space.

  • Anonymous May 11, 2010

    do you have outlook configured to leave the mail on the server after download?

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Yahoo uses POP3 as the e-mail protocol, which gives you ther option of retrieving messages but not deleting them. It sounds as though the "Leave a copy of messages on the server" option in the Advanced settings for the account is checked so that messages are left on the Yahoo e-mail server. To check on that and change it:

  1. In Outlook 2003, select Tools->E-Mail Accounts;
  2. When the E-Mail Accounts wizard pops up, under the E-Mail areaq, make sure that "View or Change existing e-mail accounts" is selected, then press Next;
  3. Select your Yahoo account in the dialog that pops up and click on "Change";
  4. The Internet E-Mail Settings dialog for the Yahoo account pops up. Click on "More Settings", then in the dialog that pops up, click on the Advanced tab;
  5. At the botton of that tab, there is an area marked as "Delivery". Make sure that "Leave a copy of messages on the server" is unchecked, then click OK;
  6. Click the Next button on the dialong, then click "Finish".
At this point, if you check e-mail using Outlook, the messages should be deleted from the server. If not, then we can go from there.

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