inbox fills periodically w/duplicate emails

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Rick Gould

Can anyone identify the virus or worm that will periodically send duplicate
emails to my inbox? It seems to do no other harm that I can detect, but
it's troublesome to have to delete, from time to time, 20 or so emails that
duplicate those that I've already received. In addition to identifying it,
I would be grateful for advice on how to get rid of it permanently, or be
referred to a website that offers a cure.

Thanks
 
Rick said:
Can anyone identify the virus or worm that will periodically send
duplicate emails to my inbox? It seems to do no other harm that I
can detect, but it's troublesome to have to delete, from time to
time, 20 or so emails that duplicate those that I've already
received. In addition to identifying it, I would be grateful for
advice on how to get rid of it permanently, or be referred to a
website that offers a cure.
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S'far as I know, no virus/worm will cause you to receive the same
(legitimate) emails more than once. This is probably a fault of either
your email client, an option in that client [1], or a malformed spam
mail sitting on your server. If it happens again, and if you have a
webmail interface, go there and look for a piece of mail with almost
no header.

Outlook Express has a bug that makes it hang if it finds one of these.
Documented on my att.net newsgroups. These malformed mails do not
affect Thunderbird.

[1] Leave a copy of the mail on the server.
 
Rick Gould said:
Can anyone identify the virus or worm that will periodically send duplicate
emails to my inbox? It seems to do no other harm that I can detect, but
it's troublesome to have to delete, from time to time, 20 or so emails that
duplicate those that I've already received. In addition to identifying it,
I would be grateful for advice on how to get rid of it permanently, or be
referred to a website that offers a cure.

Thanks
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If all the e-mails don't download from the server, they all get sent
again next time you try to download them--adding duplicates to what
has been downloaded so far. Use Mailwasher to see what e-mails are on
the sever. Sometimes it is because one of them is too large to
download (if using dial-up) before timing out. Sometimes it's a
corrupted e-mail. Mailwasher will let you delete any you consider
disposable, to let the rest download.

Cheers,
Larry
 
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