Hi all.

Don't know if anyone has had this happen. So I'll tell you what's been happening and if there's an option I can turn on or off, please let me know.

I have a particular e-mail as my default e-mail. It's my husband's email address. And when I want to view my e-mail I just go up to File, switch identity, click on my email address and it prompts me to click the x on three little boxes that pop up on my screen, and when I do all of this, my own e-mails come up.

Being doing this for a year. So if Alan goes on the computer first, he can automatically view his e-mails with no switching. And when I go, I do the switch itendity thing. No big deal doing this.

However, I have noticed that in the past week, I am getting 2 to 3 copies of the same e-mail at once.

I might have 50 emails in my e-mail box (and so does Alan, I checked).

I pull up my e-mails and there might be 3 replies from this forum (when there should be 1). All three are the exact same e-mails.

Then I'll get spam. 3 of the same 3-mails.

Then I'll get an email from my sister in law . Three of those two.

What the heck is going on. There's something with my Pop 3 thing that tells me "your pop 3 server (at least I think it's a pop 3, don't exactly remember but there's a Pop in the little message that comes up on my screen.

This happens when I want to switch identities from Alan's email to my e-mails.

I'll do the x'g out of the stuff, and all of a sudden MY EMAILS ARE NOT COMING UP. Then I'll go on the internet and all of a sudden I get a little message saying "your pop 3 server is not responding, what do you want to do, and it gives me the option "try again in 60 seconds", or "cancel".

I hit the cancel button, and all of a sudden MY EMAILS COME UP.

So anybody have a clue what is happening. How can I stop getting 3 emails of the same e-mail and why, when I switch identities, it doesn't always happen immediately?

Thanks to you most knowledgable computer people.

Melody

It could be your mail server is having a glitch.
you have verizon if I recall correctly ??

You might try going to the Verizon website and find their email FAQ section or send them an email asking about it.
You can check your email on the Verizon website also and see if duplicates are there or not.

I haven't used Outlook express for quite awhile - I use Thunderbird from Mozilla.
For a short time I got a few duplicate emails and then those stopped after a week or so.

So I never had to figure out where the problem was coming from - I have Verizon also.

thanks much.

Melody

Okay, I went to Verizon and my mailbox was empty.

Now I just checked the Outlook express thing and the same thing happened. When I want to switch identities, well, it's slow going.

And there was triple e-mails of many things.

This is most frustrating.

Mel