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Receiving E-mail in Outlook Express.
I recently lent a mate my old laptop with Windows98 installed to see if him and computers would get on ok.
He has been using it to e-mail his nephew in Spain and all was o.k until January when he stopped getting e-mails.
I have tried to help but found he has 170 e-mails waiting to download. How can we get them to download. The message on the Send and Receive window just says, Downloading 1 of 170 , but nothing happens.
On checking his Inbox we find he had several e-mails received duplicated up to ten times before the problem occured. Any ideas please??
He has been using it to e-mail his nephew in Spain and all was o.k until January when he stopped getting e-mails.
I have tried to help but found he has 170 e-mails waiting to download. How can we get them to download. The message on the Send and Receive window just says, Downloading 1 of 170 , but nothing happens.
On checking his Inbox we find he had several e-mails received duplicated up to ten times before the problem occured. Any ideas please??
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I have exactly the same problem. I used to get all my emails through outlook express then it suddenly stopped working so I have been getting them through my bt homepage instead. Last week I went onto outlook express and noticed that it said I was receiving mail................780 emails to be precise ! It took about 10 minutes for the first few to come so I cancelled them. Now every time I go onto outlook express there are all these emails waiting to come through, some have been duplicated about 8 times. It's a nightmare. I just want to cancel them all but don't know how to. I don't need them cos I have already opened them through bt homepage.
I found Outlook Express much more problematic and awkward than Outlook but stopped using either after losing everything on my hard drive twice.
Its as easy to just sign into the web email site.
Jillius, possibly you could delete the account settings from Outlook Express and then reinstate it, that way it may not hold the 780 emails in its memory, but start afresh.
Its as easy to just sign into the web email site.
Jillius, possibly you could delete the account settings from Outlook Express and then reinstate it, that way it may not hold the 780 emails in its memory, but start afresh.
hi douggym
https://memberservices.tesco.net/default.asp
on the Tesco website site you click on 'email addresses' down the right hand side, and it brings up the page as above, simply fill in the email address and password and that should take you straight into the emails sitting waiting to be downloaded by Outlook Express.
https://memberservices.tesco.net/default.asp
on the Tesco website site you click on 'email addresses' down the right hand side, and it brings up the page as above, simply fill in the email address and password and that should take you straight into the emails sitting waiting to be downloaded by Outlook Express.
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