My emails keep repeating!

[MadSammyboy]

Hey, everyone. I hope this isn't a repeat thread, but I didn't see anything recent on this issue, so here goes:

Original Droid, running 2.2.1 stock. I have two Hotmail accounts and one MSN Mail account that I have synced to the phone. My emails come through fine, and I generally delete them from my Droid as soon as I read them. I usually go online to Hotmail/MSN to delete those emails there, too, every few days.

My problem is that about every three or four days or so, I get a sort of 'email dump' of these three accounts, where ALL the emails from the last few weeks all come to my Droid at the same time- even emails that I've since deleted from my Hotmail inboxes show up as new, unread emails on my Droid.

I remember reading something about how you could change the email settings on Droid so that it wouldn't deliver anything older than, say, three days, but on Android 2.2.1, I cannot for the LIFE of me find the place where I might adjust this setting.

Is this something others have experienced, and does anyone know how to stop/fix it? It's very annoying, having to go through and delete all these emails again. Plus, it takes up memory. Any help is much appreciated, and thanks in advance!

 

[hookbill]

Nope, can't say I have heard about deleted email getting sent repeatedly. I think what you need to do is visit your gmail account on line and investigate the settings. They have a pretty good help section, maybe you can find the answer to your issue there.

 

[chrstdvd]

I have experienced this with Email and text messages, but not to the extend that I have been bugged about it enough to go "searching". I just deleted all my email accounts from the phone except, of course Gmail, made that my main with all my contacts. I go online and check AOl, live, and others when I think about it.

Since Android is Google, I suggest you make that your main email. I know, you love whatever you have been using, but life is so much easier, if you either forward on the computer your @whatever to Gmail.

Just my 2 cents worth. No offense.

 

[MadSammyboy]

Hookbill, chrstdvd, thank you for your responses. To tell the truth, I've been using the stock Android email app all this time, so I've cleared my accounts from it, installed K-9, and we'll see if that solves the problem.

Chrstdvd, I did consider forwarding my emails to my gmail account, but it's actually an account a few other people use, so I decided against that for now. If K-9 doesn't solve the problem, I'll probably end up doing that, though, or setting up a new gmail account and switching everything over. I don't know if that's an involved thing to do, but hopefully K-9 will work and I won't need to find out!

Thanks again, and I'll update with my results after a while.

 

[GT944]

I found your thread because I was having a similar issue - a couple emails would just come back on the next sync cycle after I deleted them on my Dinc w/ the stock email app. Reboot seems to have solved the problem, but we'll see.

**EDIT** Nope, nevermind - still same issue! Let us know if K9 solves the issue, but there's got to be something I can do - the stock email app is decent, I don't see any reason to change at this point, there's got to be a way to stop this cycle.

 

[Lastb0isct]

I'm also interested to know whether or not the K-9 app works well for you. Post your results please!!