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[tigers_gonads]

I've been using a samsung galaxy phone for the past 18 months.
When I got it, I setup my hotmail address on it so I could keep track of emails while i'm away from the laptop.
Right, the thing works great but one thing keeps bugging me.
Sometimes when I clear the inbox and send it to trash, 2 hours later, my inbox is full of emails from oct 2009 
These are all dated within a couple of days of each other 
It doesn't matter how many times I delete these messages, you can bet your life they will come back sometime 
Also, sometimes I seem to get emails (with no title or any contents) arive in the inbox dated from the year 1970 

What the hell is happening 

This is a serious question.
NOT a windup !

[Murph]

As far as I can tell it's because the phone compares it's own inbox with your actual MSN inbox, then anything that it finds online that it doesnt already have it treats as new mail.
When you delete mail on your phone it just goes from your phone - NOT your MSN inbox.

So... you delete mail from your phone, then it checks online and says 'hey... new mail!' and promptly downloads the whole lot over again.

Mail from 1970 is a mystery to me though!

[zirk]

What happens if you mark all your messages as read on the MSN Server, download from mobile again then delete on the phone?

Any sub folders on your MSN inbox.

No idea about the 1970s bit though, corrupted Data Base?

[LFF64]

Hello Zirk
 Mine does the same with my bt emails like you say if you delete all the emails from the phone it reloads random ones back on , my contract is up this week so going to look at something else
 I like the phone but it can be rather tempermental   

[LFF64]

Whoops sorry got tigers and zirk mixed up then 

[tunnie]

Simples, Hotmail is shite!

[zirk]

Whoops sorry got tigers and zirk mixed up then 

Tut, Im the good looking one.

[cem_devecioglu]

agreed Tunnie..
 
I'm using samsung for both job mails and hotmail.. job mails normal but hotmail resends the old mails to me continously so can never finish the list.. so I disabled it..

[tigers_gonads]

What happens if you mark all your messages as read on the MSN Server, download from mobile again then delete on the phone?

Any sub folders on your MSN inbox.

No idea about the 1970s bit though, corrupted Data Base?

No sub folders on laptop or phone

This only ever happens on the phone.
Normal access to hotmail via laptop seems to work without problems.

[tigers_gonads]

Whoops sorry got tigers and zirk mixed up then 

Tut, Im the good looking one.

  sweetie   

[OOMV6]

Normally there is a setting for deletion. Phone only OR phone and server. If you use the setting of phone and server, normally when you exit the email program on the phone is should up date the server and delete them there. Also when requesting messages from server, request ONLY new messages, not ALL.
If all else fails, log on to hotmail, delete all the mails you don't want, and go from there.

[Taxi_Driver]

I'm assuming your phone is just synching with your hotmail account.....so log on to your hotmail account from a pc and delete the emails from there.....next time your phone syncs with your hotmail account they should disapear 

Ive just done the same with my gmail account.....my gmail account syncs with my isp's inbox....my phone then syncs with gmail......logged into my gmail account.....deleted all emails....then i forced a sync on my phone....all 1500 emails gone  I havent actually lost any emails....as my laptop downloads all emails from my isp's inbox.....gmail and my phone just 'mirror' whats in my isp's inbox 

[zirk]

Are the phone and Laptop settings the same, ie both POP3 or imap?

[LFF64]

Its not just hotmail, it does it with my btinternet     also a samsung galaxy

[STMO123]

Its not just hotmail, it does it with my btinternet     also a samsung galaxy

Mine works perfectly with btinternet.
 
Go into settings>accounts and sync and make sure background data is ticked and auto sync is ticked. Your accounts should be listed below and the sync symbol should be green.