(If you are leaving mail on the server intentionally, you may want to change the option to delete mail from the server when it's deleted from Outlook. To delete the mail after it is downloaded, add the Modified date field to the view and delete the duplicate messages. There are ways to deal with this issue though:ġ: Because POP3 only downloads mail that is in the Inbox, you can move the mail from the Inbox to another folder in your account online (log in using webmail) before taking Outlook online.Ģ: Let Outlook download the mail then add the Modified date field to the view, sort by it and delete all of the mail you just downloaded (that was previously downloaded.) When you create a new account, Outlook has to re-download all of the mail again. The 'Mailbox Manager' file Outlook uses to keep track of messages that were downloaded is associated with the account that created it and downloaded the mail.
You can't avoid Outlook downloading duplicates when you leave mail on the server.
How do I get it to stop downloading the copies of the email? If I can't, how do I sort the email for the newly downloaded identical copies and delete them?ĭuplicate remover utilities are available at Duplicate Remover Tools When I try the first send/receive, Outlook downloads all of the emails off of the server even though I already have copies in the inbox. I moved my pst files to a new computer and set up Outlook to use the old pst files.
