I've had WLM for 2 years on this computer, with the same pop3 charter e-mail 
account. Recently started having trouble downloading messages to WLM, 
sometimes they would duplicate5X, or like today, can't get them to download 
at all. Help!?

Are you getting any error messages?

If you never complete downloading all the existing e-mail messages from 
a POP3 mail server, the next time it will start over from the beginning 
and send the messages that you may already have. This is by design of 
the POP3 mail protocol.  As a fail safe, the server always assumes on a 
lost connection that the mail client crashed and lost all messages from 
that download.

Some possible causes of problems downloading mail messages:

- You may have a very large message to download, or one that is causing 
problems for your mail program. Your mail service may offer a web 
interface that would allow you to delete the problem message or move it 
to another folder other than the Inbox.

- The POP3 mail server is having problems.

- Anti-virus program scanning e-mail as it downloads or anti-spam 
program.  Increasing the Server Timeout at Tools (ALT+T), Accounts, 
Mail, Properties, Advanced might help.  Or you may need to disable the 
anti-virus or anti-spam software from scanning e-mail.

As long as your anti-virus software is set to scan files as they are 
opened, scanning e-mail as it downloads or sends is unnecessary and 
prone to problems.

With some anti-virus (and anti-spam) programs, simply disabling the 
e-mail scanning function doesn't really disable it.  It simply tells the 
program not to flag any messages.  It still processes all the messages 
and may still cause send/receive failures.  What you may need to do is 
uninstall the anti-virus program, then reinstall it using a custom 
install option and unselect the e-mail scanning component for 
installation.

-- 

Mike - http://TechHelp.Santovec.us



"Just Wondrin" <JustWondrin@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
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> I've had WLM for 2 years on this computer, with the same pop3 charter 
> e-mail
> account. Recently started having trouble downloading messages to WLM,
> sometimes they would duplicate5X, or like today, can't get them to 
> download
> at all. Help!?