why do i get all my emails many times?

ok now i can't stop laughing

gnomes! beware the smurfeater!

Mark, yeah, I got one of your emails (re that Oh Fite Oh No! thingie) a couple of dazzzzze later. Very strange.

Do you have more than one ISP? Is this into an Outlook programme?

email prog = the apple mail programme (osX), and no as far as i know DON'T have more than one ISP, just the same old same old: how do i find out though?

If you don't need to access your email from another computer, try setting "Delete messages from server after downloading" under "Account options". Mine works without it, mind.

Better still, send your ISP an email explaining the problem. It'll be something wrong with their mailer I should think. I once had the misfortune of receiving the same email about 1000 times a day. I had to get a new address - it should be simpler in your case.

well i took graham's advice as it was easily done: 1st result, it spooged out THIRTY old emails, earliest march 5, however i am quietly trusting this is the last evah such incident

it wasn't

jel you were right!! my OS9 hard disc has an outlook account which i configured when i was still deciding which to use of OSx or OS9 => ok i have shut that down (i hope possibly maybe) AND activated "delete from server after download"; i am still getting things thru multiply but maybe this is the final spasm...??

Maybe it's just because people are sending you their emails lots of times to annoy you.

i larfed non-stop and so did dr vick

Mark, this is a bug in OSX. It happened to me when I started using the Apple e mail program for the first time. The mail doesn't get deleted from the server, even when you check the 'delete mail from server' option.

The solution is to upgrade to OSX.1.3, the latest version of OSX, which will replace the early defective Mail program (without harming your mailboxes, hopefully) with a newer one which not only fixes the multiple mails bug but also adds groovy stuff like visual cross-fading when you go from one mail to another.

I still think it's a shitty program though. For instance, does yours take about a minute to quit, as it grinds through some compaction chores?

oh right! upgrade for free or for money though?

thanks nick, it has been driving me insane today: i switched back to os9 and used outlook, even though it has NONE of my addresses listed

to be honest it is such an improvement on my aged old email app on my previous computer (where i cd not open incoming unelss i cracked them open w. word and took out all the weirdness) that i have not noticed or minded slowness much.. by comparison it is not SLOW, just promiscuous and repetitive

The upgrade is free from Apple .

To upgrade using OSX's built-in Software Update feature:

1. Choose System Preferences from the Apple Menu. 2. Choose Software Update from the View menu. 3. Click Update Now. 4. In the Software Update window, select the items you want to install, then click Install. 5. Enter an Admin user name and password. 6. After the update is complete, restart the computer if necessary. 7. Repeat these steps to see if more updates are revealed. Because some software updates are prerequisites for others, you may need to repeat these steps several times to complete the software update sequence, which is described in technical document 106713: "Mac OS X: Chart of Available Software Updates" 8. Optional: Make software you do not need "inactive." You will most likely encounter some updates that you do not need, such as support for languages that you do not speak. When you choose not to install an update, you will still see it each time you use Software Update. If you want to hide those, see technical document 106705: "Mac OS X: Making a Software Update Item Inactive or Active"

blimey cheers i shall set to tomorrow

I don't suppose you have any of mine, do you? Not even seximandi has written to me since thursday, and considering the amount of crap I usually get, I suspect something is afoot.

a big thank you to MOMUS whose advice seems to have solved this problem: IOU one dino-cybeer

grrr now i suspect mail is causing the primary code show-through stuff ("kernel debugger" blah blah)

i am (re)upgrading to 10.1.5 as we speak, for greater "stability"

what is a better email system for osX?

mac mail is fantastic, but if you want greater stability, I'd upgrade the OS, not the mail program.

i am upgrading from the OS from 10.1.2 to 10.1.5

(ed magically upgraded it further two years ago but i lost all that in the big meltdown b4 xmas)

if you wish to upgrade that last post remove the first "from"

no, I know, but that's a pretty old OS. Panther will change your life!

change my life by being expensively out of date in six months!!