[wmorton42]

I have a Hp desktop with win.xp and outlook express.

I have a Hp laptop with vista and outlook express


When I down load e-mails on the laptop, and a day later I down load e-mails on the desktop it pulls up all the messages from the last 2 days that I had pulled up on the laptop.


How can I fix this ?


Thanks,


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[Rommel]

Sorry I don't use any outlook programs, can't help you there.

The modurators of this forums will remove your email address.

You are inviting spam. I suggest you edit it out.

You can be reached via a PM if someone chooses to do so.

Cheers

[rgreen4]

Check your laptop e-mail settings. Is there an option to delete after they are downloaded? Sometimes it is set this way if you want to keep all your e-mails on one machine.

[wmorton42]

Even if I delete them on the desktop immed. they still show up on the laptop when I request messages.



Thank you for your reply.

[tek101]

Nothing wrong with your Out look express (Same with office outlook)....That's the nature of out look and how it works ......
Its an off-line email server ...Whenever you open..."download" an email ....it will save it to HDD (including all attachments) ......
so you can view it anytime ......ON ...or....OFF line ...

You have to manually delete it "off" your pc ........After you delete it .....and go to delete folder (or trash folder in other email servers)...delete it again ....

All your "opened" emails (or any folder...like send folder...etc...) will stay in your pc and taking up HDD space ...untill you delete them out .....

If you still have all "Unopened" emails from The email server that attached to outlook .....You have to set it .." Do not save after send" ...or something like that .

You can not set this in yahoo ( in default ....Yahoo won't save any email after send) and there is no option to do this ...If you know the way.....please tell ..

You can set this in hotmail ...From outlook "mail receive option" .

Hope it help...

[wmorton42]

Thank you I will try the do not save after send.

[coastie65]

I think the problem stems from the fact you accessing the same email box form to different computers, so once you've accesed it on one computer, when you access it again with a second computer you will get the same emails and any new ones. coastie

[wmorton42]

Thanks for your reply, there seems to be no way around it.

What puzzles me is that I have another laptop with win xp it doesn't happen with that one. My newer notebook is the one with Vista, that is the one I am having trouble with.

I wish Vista was never invented !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[bbvammy]

@wmorton42

because, you did not set your outlook at IMAP.

[bbvammy]

@wmorton42


>I wish Vista was never invented !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<


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[tek101]

Ok ...The thing is you use Outlook express which embeded in IE6 or IE7 ....and MS cut it off from IE 8 which comes with Wds Vista ....

With Vista ...you have to use Windows mail and that makes it impossibe for you to link from both pcs ......

And yes ..it sucks ......

[smax013]

tek101 said:

Nothing wrong with your Out look express (Same with office outlook)....That's the nature of out look and how it works ......

Yes and no. While you are correct that Outlook Express (and Outlook) will download messages, how they "do" that will depend on settings.

[smax013]

Is you email account a POP email account or an IMAP email account?

Depending on how you answer that will dictate what might be done to try to deal with your issue.

[smax013]

I have moved your question to the Web Browsing & Email forum as the PC World Website forum is more for issues/questions about the PC World website.

[rgreen4]

I use Vista on several machines and access my e-mail from all three. Now my e-mail with both Earthlink and Windstream is set to be read like webmail through my browser (IE7 and FF2 on). I also do the same thing on my XP machines (1 Pro and 1 Home) with the same results. Now, I used to pull down the messages only on my HP D530 running XP Pro so that all the messages would be in the same place (Outlook Express). I then set up my main machine (one I am responding with) to download the messages and save them using Windows Mail in Vista Home Premium. I have found both act the same.

When viewing my e-mails in a browser, they are not downloaded and stay on the server until I either delete them or download them via Windows Mail/Outlook Express. You may want to contact your e-mail provider's support group for assistance, for normally once you have downloaded the e-mails, they prefer to get them off their server.

One question, if you download the e-mails with Windows Mail, and sign off, the next time you sign on with Windows Mail are those messages still there?

FWIW - Yes, Vista is a little different than XP, but then XP was different than either Windows 2000 or Windows 98 as well. Also Windows 7 is a little different than Vista and XP as well. Different versions of all software, not just operating systems operate and look different. It's a natural progression. Of course you are different than you were 8 years ago as well, hopefully also progressed and doing things a little better. As a matter of operating you might want to consider only viewing the messages on your Vista machine and deleting those you don't want to bring down on the XP machine. Then the next time you are on the XP machine bring down everything. I leave those messages that I want to access from anywhere on the e-mail server until I have to clean it up (100MB is a lot of storage but it fills up eventually).

[wmorton42]

Thanks for all the replies.



My e-mail is set as pop rather than imap.

When I read e-mails on Vista and turn off the computer, they are still there when I turn on the computer unless I deleted them before I turned off the Vista computer.

[smax013]

With a POP email account, the two basic ways to set it up are to either delete them off the server when you download the messages or leave them on the server when you download the messages. POP email accounts are "dumb" email accounts...that is the server will not keep track of the fact that you already downloaded some messages on one computer and then not download then again on a second computer. The only way to prevent them from downloading again onto a second computer is to have BOTH computers set to delete the message from the server when you download them. The downside of this is that you will end up with some messages on one computer and some on the other.

There are variations on those two basic ways. Many email clients can delete the messages from the server when you delete them in the email client and some can delete them from the server after some specified period of time. If it helps, I have all my computer/devices that access my POP accounts set to NOT delete the messages from the server UNLESS I delete the message from the email client (note: you must make sure that after deleting the message, your email client "checks" for email with the server...i.e. you hit the "send/receive" button...otherwise the client will not tell the server to remove the deleted message until the next time it checks with the server...so, if you delete a message, inlcuding empty the "trash" that most email programs have, and then immediately exit the email client WITHOUT letting it contact the server, the message will stay on the server) EXCEPT for my main desktop. That main desktop have set to leave the messages on the server for 5 days and then delete them. This effectively means that I will always get ALL the messages on the main server as it is where I keep all my messages...but all the other computers will have copies if it has not been deleted by the main desktop. I used to have the main desktop just delete them when it downloads them, but I used to keep my main desktop on all the time, it would sometimes delete messages before my smartphone would logon to get the messages if I was out and about. The 5 day delay prevented that.

Now, in reality, it is less of an issue for me as my two primary email accounts are now IMAP accounts. IMAP accounts are nice because they are "smart" email accounts...that is it will update the server. All devices checking will have all messages (the messages stay on the server AND download to your device until you delete them). If you read a message on your laptop, it will then sync that information back to the server (i.e. that you read it) and then when you check with your desktop, it will still download the message, but show it as being read. Basically, an IMAP account syncs everything back and forth with the server.

[wmorton42]

Thank you smax. How do I change my format from pop3 to imap?

[smax013]

Generally, it will require getting a new email account/provider...but some (such as Gmail, I believe) offer both IMAP and POP access.

[wmorton42]

Hey, I just figured it out and it works. In outlook express and vista windows mail there is an option that says keep mail on server. Uncheck that box and bingo no more duplicate e-mails !!



Thanks for everybody's help on this one...........