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Need help deleting messages that "have not been received from the server"

Discussion in 'Microsoft Mail (Outlook / OE / Windows Mail)' started by towdesign, 2008/05/12.

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    towdesign

    towdesign Inactive Thread Starter

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    I'm in outlook 2003, xp. I use ypops to retrieve my email into outlook. I have over :eek:100 spam in my inbox and when i click over them i get the following message:

    The item cannot be displayed in the reading panel, the item has not been received from the server:mad:

    I had something similar before and I just deleted the messages from the web base email (yahoo).

    Now I feel stuck with all this spam in my inbox - please can someone help I need to get rid of these messages. Some messages are duplicated 4 to 5 times - I think this happens every time I try to receive email.

    Thanks - Towdesign
     
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    Steve R Jones

    Steve R Jones SuperGeek Staff

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    What happens when you go to Yahoo's site? Do the mails show up there?
     

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    Arie

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    Which just tells you that the message can not be displayed in the reading panel because you have not downloaded it from the server.

    To delete it, right click & select delete. When you have all the messages selected that you either want to delete or download (keep), select the account under Send / Receive and select Process Marked Headers.
     
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    towdesign

    towdesign Inactive Thread Starter

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    When I go to Yahoo the messages they are no longer there. Actually I found out how to deal with it by accident. :rolleyes: Now I feel foolish because I spent two days on this. :mad: I decided to delete all my email account and re-enter them one by one. Apparently the spam was being sent to one certain yahoo email. When I clicked on it I got a message that deleting these emails belong to an email that is no longer accessible. Are you sure you want to delete? YES! :)

    So the trick was to remove all the email accounts and then delete the offending emails. I'm not sure if you at least need to have one email setting restored.
     
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    towdesign

    towdesign Inactive Thread Starter

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    I tried this but it would not work. I think it was caught in some kind of limbo because all the messages had been already deleted from the web base yahoo account.
     

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