-=PCTechTalk=- Re: how about sending multiple copies
- From: "Don" <dsw32952@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 17:18:18 -0500
There is probably several ways that an email can get sent multiple times.
The most common that I have experience with is that somewhere in the
delivery chain, the message did not get deleted after it was sent on. That
could be at your OUTbox or on your son's ISP email server or on any server
in between.
The couple of times this has happened to me, it was MY fault. I have my
email client (Outlook Express) set to save a copy of all sent messages to my
sent items folder. This means that when my outbox sends a message, rather
than deleting it, it moves it to the sent items folder. When that folder
gets too full it will not accept anymore messages. So the outbox cannot
move the message and opts to keep it instead. So everytime OE sends mail,
it sends the message again.
If a mail upload or download is interrupted in some manner and communication
between the sender and receiver is incomplete, the entire packet of messages
could get sent again and again and again until both can communicate a proper
end of transmission. This will result in multiple copies of a message or
messages being delivered.
Don
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From: "mariek" <mariepkg@xxxxxxx>
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Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2005 4:30 PM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- how about sending multiple copies
> Thanks Don, for your answer on format changing when I send an email. I
> forgot to mention that several times, I would send a copy of something and
> it would send it multiple times. I sent my son something and he said he
> got it 37 times. Could that be a glitch in my program also? I've run
> numerous virus scans, defragged, discscanned and can't think of anything
> else to do to get rid of these ghosts in my computer other than running my
> boot disc all new. I also can't get into safe mode. Can get there but my
> curser freezes and literally refuses to move. I'm beginning to wonder if
> my computer booted with either missing or corrupt files or did not
> download correctly when I last started from scratch.
> I had a virus about 2 years ago that wiped it out and it seems to have a
> few aggravations since that time,,,,,as if a computer doesn't aggravate a
> novice anyway:o).
> I hate to bother you with such petty problems but to me they seem to
> escalate and don't seem so petty:o(
> Thanks again Marie K
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