duplicate emails; two different machines - just one email address.... how come?

I use the same email address all the time. I can access it from my home machine, or the one at my office (self employed) . I get the same emails on both machines even if I've already downloaded it once on either home or office machine.

How can I fix that? I'm tired of having to constantly delet the same messages on both machines.

I have a gmail account as per Verizon's suggestion. I have a Yahoo account. and thats it.

any help appreciated.

 

Hi

What email service do you use, and what program do you use to access it? For instance, do you use your Gmail account through Outlook Express, or what?

 

If you're really "downloading" your email, that means you're using an email client (Outlook Express, Outlook, Windows Mail, etc.) and downloading the messages to your hard drive, not just viewing your mail via web browser. So, what email client are you using?

And, if you're using an email client to download messages to your hard drive, then the comment about Yahoo! Mail needs some clarification. The free Yahoo! Mail account is not a POP-capable account, meaning it can not be setup to work in an email client. So, please provide more detail on this account.

Back to gmail, I'll assume you have it setup in email clients on both computers. This is the only scenario that makes sense based on your comments. But, please confirm this and provide more detail before we go further so that this can be a productive discussion.

 

I have windows live mail 2011 here at home, and I'll have to wait and get to work tomorrow to tell you what I've go there but, its windows (office?) something or the other. My gmail account has ( I just looked...) a whole two messages from when it was set up and my Yahoo account is just another email that has nothing to do with (none of the same messages show up there/different userid and so on) these home and office machines. Both home and office are set up with only ONE email account. And its the one I've had for years.

I'll edit this post tomorrow with the info on what programme I'm using at work.

Could it be that somewhere, there's a box that when checked leaves a copy on the server? that comes off completely when the second machine pulls it off?

thanks, m

 

Apparently, you have your email clients set to "Leave a copy of messages on the server". Take a look at your account settings in windows live mail and whatever you use at work. But, the situation you describe clearly indicates the setting I just mentioned is enabled. And, apparently, you have the gmail account setup as a POP3 account.

Keep in mind that, with POP3 accounts, if you do cancel the setting for "Leave a copy of messages on the server" on both machines, whichever one is used to retrieve email at any point in time will be the only one that will have those messages just retrieved since retrieval removes the messages from the server. Therefore, you will not see those messages appear in the other computer.

Have you heard of IMAP-type email accounts? Gmail accounts can be IMAP-enabled and this will suit your situation well if you'd like to have the same messages on the two computers without having to manually do this. With the gmail account setup as IMAP in both computers, deleting a message on one will automaticlly result in that message being deleted on the other computer the next time it accesses gmail.

If you want to try this, you could just disable the POP3 accounts in your email clients and the create new IMAP accounts for gmail in each client. You'll also need to logon to your gmail account via web browser and enable IMAP for your account on their server. If you decide IMAP is the way you want to go from now and going forward, then I suggest you disable POP3 in Google/gmail on the same screen where you enabled IMAP.

Reference: http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=78799

 

I'm using microsoft outlook here at work. I finally found where windows live has that little box to check when you want a copy left of the sever; I've unchecked it, maybe that's enough!

Now, I found the box already checked. I have NO MESSAGES on my windows live (hotmail) account; none. Certainly not any of the duplicated ones I've been getting. It won't let me "add an account" either, I get a a message that says

"There's a problem connecting to the POP mail server. Make sure that the server name and port you entered are correct."

My user id and password are correct. however it asks for "Pop 3 user name" and I've put "mail", "mail.consolidated.net" "my userid" none will let me in.

What's up with this?

 

You said you unchecked the box. Then, you say "Now, I found the box already checked". I can't make sense of your comments. Please clarify. What is the setting now on both computers?

Why are you trying to add an account when you already had gmail setup in both computers?

Again, why the tampering with the email account in your client when already had gmail setup in them?