Duplicate Emails being received

[glyn]

can anyone throw any light on this one plse? - i'm littered with spam (up to 500 or 600 a day) but now the problem is made worse by most of my emails duplicating themselves - emails will often be delivered often up to four or five times - so there is a massive increase in the spam delivered to me -

is this one of those mysterious problems that no-one quite knows about but might be cleared up when the email hardware/software problems are resolved? or is it a known problem?

i'm in the cambridge area

at a guess, is your mail client program (i.e. Outlook Express or whatever) set up so that it doesn't delete new mail that it retrieves from the server?

[glyn]

no - that's what i thought initially but the box in outlook 2000 asking if i want to leave a copy of the message on the server is unchecked - so unless there's any other way that they're being left on the server ...?

i found that with outlook express if you dont recieve every email in your mailbox and then you try to send and recieve again you will get them all again. Then only way i found to stop this was to ensure that every email came down in one go.

[DrToxic]

I had a similar problem a few weeks back which was discussed here...

http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/sh...ad.php?t=15150

Hope this helps!

[seaneeboy]

As gary says, I've had the problem where it will do that - mainly due to the "check mail" interval beiong too short.

How often do you have it to check mail?

[glyn]

because of the amount of junk mail i get, i have to set outlook to check every 10 minutes and that's 24 hours a day - (thank god i've got a good spam handler!) -

i went thru the telnet route, there doesn't appear to be anything stuck - i'm still getting duplicates but it's not on every email, just some (all spam, never proper stuff) -

the other thing is that much of the spam is not even addressed to any of my email accounts - if i open the occasional one, it's more than likely addressed to some other account @ ntlworld - i've never been sure why they come to me ......

[danielf]

Originally Posted by glyn

because of the amount of junk mail i get, i have to set outlook to check every 10 minutes and that's 24 hours a day - (thank god i've got a good spam handler!) -

i went thru the telnet route, there doesn't appear to be anything stuck - i'm still getting duplicates but it's not on every email, just some (all spam, never proper stuff) -

the other thing is that much of the spam is not even addressed to any of my email accounts - if i open the occasional one, it's more than likely addressed to some other account @ ntlworld - i've never been sure why they come to me ......

To rule out outlook causing the problem, see if you are getting duplicates on webmail. If you're getting them there, it is not outlook. Seeing it is mostly spam, these messages may actually have been sent several times. I had 4 identical spam messages in my webmail this morning, and I get this specific spam almost every day

Regarding them not being addressed to you. They are, but your address is in the BCC (Blind Carbon Copy) field, so it doesn't show up.

[glyn]

i tried the webmail route - and you were absolutely right, straight away there was three copies of the same junk email - so it seems that the latest ploy of the spammers is to send out two or three copies just to make things even worse -

many thanks for your assistance

but i still don't understand how i'm receiving mail addressed to other accounts - for example, the email in triplicate that i just received was addressed to some other ntlworld account, not mine - any ideas about that plse?

[glyn]

incredibly, some of the mails on webmail were also dated tomorrow!

[danielf]

Originally Posted by glyn

i tried the webmail route - and you were absolutely right, straight away there was three copies of the same junk email - so it seems that the latest ploy of the spammers is to send out two or three copies just to make things even worse -

many thanks for your assistance

but i still don't understand how i'm receiving mail addressed to other accounts - for example, the email in triplicate that i just received was addressed to some other ntlworld account, not mine - any ideas about that plse?

I edited my above post, so you may have missed that. You are in the BCC (Blind Carbon Copy) field, which means that the email is addressed to you, but it just doesn't show.

[Rone]

I use Mailwasher Pro and i,m getting duplicated Spam as well.
Not from all, just from some.
The most persistent spam comes through Chinanet and Hanaro.
Although i do bounce spam back [a dubious idea and it creates more crap ] i report all spam through spamcop, if it does any good , who knows.
Ive tried setting up filter after filter, but still even small amounts get through, and even tho i like outlook express, and i dont like web based mail servers, it really is the biggest thorn in the side of the inet.

[Neil]

Moved to E-Mail Discussion Forum.

[chopsmcp]

Originally Posted by Rone

I use Mailwasher Pro and i,m getting duplicated Spam as well.
Not from all, just from some.
The most persistent spam comes through Chinanet and Hanaro.

Korea/Hanaro is the new spammer cesspool of choice. Some major leaguers are for some reason moving there from Chinanet.

Although i do bounce spam back [a dubious idea and it creates more crap ] [snip]

Gah! Why?? If you "bounce" 1000 messages through MW, 999.9 of those bounces are at best a waste of bandwidth that's going nowhere, at worst a hassle for an innocent 3rd party/joe-job victim. Why do it?

[Rone]

Originally Posted by chopsmcp

Korea/Hanaro is the new spammer cesspool of choice. Some major leaguers are for some reason moving there from Chinanet.

Gah! Why?? If you "bounce" 1000 messages through MW, 999.9 of those bounces are at best a waste of bandwidth that's going nowhere, at worst a hassle for an innocent 3rd party/joe-job victim. Why do it?

Why do you think i put its a dubious idea???
There are differing views on the subject, some say bounce others dont, you can work out for yourself its going to cause more traffic.