IT question (not AH computer related); email

[texasmom]

So if a message which you hit "send" to only once goes out more than 20 times over the course of several days, where do you even begin looking to find out why that "send" command is being repeated?

[Spikes]

The only thing I could see is a glitch...what do you use for email program?

[texasmom]

It's hotmail piped into Outlook

[Tec]

Is it possible that Hotmail will hold an e-mail that didn't initially go through in some sort of a cache for a period of time and try sending it again at regular intervals?  If so maybe it was getting returns that made it think it wasn't going through and it really was?

[Denholm]

I know when I used outlook it was very buggy. My guess is that it was stored in your outbox and for some reason Outlook didn't get the confirmation it needed that Hotmail sent your email.

Pssst... Get Gmail, it strips your IP address from the email's headers (more secure by .1 inches).

[texasmom]

Thanks for your replies. I didn't get it fixed (entirely), but plugged the hole in the bucket at least

[bcadoo]

check to make sure the size of your pst file is less than 2GB, or if you are using Outlook Express that the size of your sent items folder is less than 2GB.  I've seen it repeatedly send when it can't move the file from the Outbox to Sent Items folder.

[texasmom]

I did find out the problem was the link between hotmail and verizon.  I don't think there's a permanent fix, other than changing the account from hotmail to gmail.  verizon & gmail don't seem to have the same communication problems that they have with hotmail.

I appreciate all of your replies!