It is not reasonable to expect Outlook to download and mark for deletion all 54K messages with no glitches then quit so the server can do cleanup. I highly recommend stopping the sync process periodically so Outlook will finish the current message and quit the POP3 session. Then hit Send/Rcv again and it should start up with the next message. Otherwise if the session times out instead of ending normally, the server will take the safe approach and not delete any of the downloaded messages, and you will start over from the beginning.
From: CBB - Jay Fuller Sent: Sunday, June 14, 2015 5:34 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] today's consulting fun i'm hoping a pop3 session will stay open that long. on attempt #2 but i think my cable connection dropped at least once. it's on message 10,263 of 54,284. i'm going to dinner. ----- Original Message ----- From: Lewis Bergman To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, June 14, 2015 3:31 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] today's consulting fun So weather is your point? Sounds like maybe you have never had the pain of running your own mail server. We used to get this note and again. Someone needs to manually look at the message file and go to the spot if that message and manually delete it. Good luck convincing bell south to do it. On Jun 14, 2015 2:11 PM, "CBB - Jay Fuller" <[email protected]> wrote: so i was really tempted to post this on facebook but since he's local, maybe not. issue: my outlook keeps downloading the same message over and over. the message was about three months old once i looked at it. i setup a new profile, clean pst file, started downloading messages. downloading message 1 of 54484 messages (1.79 gig) what?! messages started coming in from january 2014. this is an @bellsouth.net email address. mr. lawyer dude, you and i need to have a little talk....
