[dfr200764]

Hi

I have a slight problem ! My gmail and yahoo email accounts are configured to download through Windows Mail. Last night it was all fine but had a login problem this morning..hadnt paid my bill....oops ! Anyway, not thinking that was the issue at stake, the technical guy at tiscali took me through to changing the DNS server address as i have a router set up etc. I finally got connected but now when I open Windows Mail, the inbox is being flooded with emails dating back to 2001 !!!!! At the mmoent there are about 380 emails in the inbox and over 1000 in the junk mail. I even got one with a trojan popping up ! Ok i dont clear my email accounts that often as you never know but how do i stop this deluge ?? Could it be a virus ? I am going to scan with my anti-virus anyway but any advice would be gratefully received !! thanks !

[Hybr!d]

Make sure you are setup in POP3 configuration, that way the messages get deleted tiscali's end after downloading to your email client, that way they only get downloaded once. If the downloading of old emails is still a problem, login to your web account and delete the emails there, they will then be gone forever and will never download again.

[serverguy]

Yep, as Dave said, obviously something has made Windows Live Mail feel the need to redownload everything.

Short of going through it all there is little you can do apart from delete it all.

When you have done, make sure you change the POP3 setting to delete mail on the server after it has been downloaded to prevent this happening again.