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When I send out an email, that person receives it two or three times. When I receive email, I get it two or three times. How do I fix this?
Email Service Issues
If you're using an email service such as Gmail or Hotmail, it could be an issue with the provider and may resolve itself as the ISP's technicians figure out what's wrong and correct the problem. For example, back in 2010, users of Google Groups apparently experienced a similar problem where their messages were sent and received multiple times.
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Email Client Issues – Duplicate Accounts
Another possibility is that the email client you use, such as Windows Live Mail or Outlook Express, contains a duplicate default account. If there are two "default" accounts, then both could be sending and receiving the same message. Go to Tools > Options > Email Accounts. If you see two duplicate accounts, delete one and that should solve the problem.
Stuck Email Messages
Another possibility is that you have an email that's stuck. For example, if you have an email in your outbox that for some reason never completes the transmission (such as if it's too large to send), once that email fails, the entire transmission comes to a halt. When you send and receive the next time, all the messages that previously went through will be resent, and the stuck email will once again fail. The solution to this situation is to delete the troublesome email sitting in your outbox.
A similar issue involves with messages getting stuck in your inbox. If someone sends a message that's too big to download, the message may be residing on the ISP server associated with your email account. However, since it keeps failing to download, the messages in front of it arrive just fine, but the overall transmission fails. The next time you send and receive, the messages in front of the troublesome message are resent to you because the original transmission never actually completed. In this case, you'll either need to use your webmail access (if you have webmail access) and manually delete the troublesome message or call your ISP for help.
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Celeste Stewart | March 30th, 2012
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