Email gone wild

[Framar]

A friend and I are attending a reunion next week and he decided to have T-shirts made for us. He emailed me a hi res file with the photo of the two of us, I touched it up in PS, and added a separate file with another image. They each ended up 8-9 mb, but he said the shirt place needed good quality files, so I emailed both off to his home addy. When he did not receive them, he gave me his work addy. So I re-sent them.

Still no luck.

So I emailed each separately to both his home and his work addresses.

Then I took the images back in to PS and stepped them down to 3mb each. So, in other words, I emailed him 8 images in all to two addresses.

He has not only received all of these, he tells me they keep coming. By 9 last evening he had gotten 20 pictures, and this morning he says they are still coming.

I have deleted all of the messages and images from my Sent box in my email program.

Any idea how to turn these off?

 

[framah]

MAR BROKE THE INTERNETS!!!!!!!

 

[Framar]

Hey, for this shirt - it was worth it!

 

[Framar]

I just spoke with my friend - he is in New Orleans, his ISP is Cox.net and he said he has gotten over 50 emails today - 8mb each - I told him to call his provider. They are no longer in my system (as far as I can tell).

 

[Framar]

OK, instead of just deleting these from my sent folder in my Windows Live Mail - I just went into my ISP mail program (very hard to locate) - and there were the hundreds of emails, repeating like something out of the Sorcerer's Apprentice. So I deleted everything and set it up so that when my POP account tells it to get deleted, it stays deleted for good.

Yeesh.

Why would email go so crazy like that?

 

[AnneL]

Because it's Windows email.

 

[Framar]

LOL, Anne. And after I was in there deleting everything, I received an email from Outlook and they placed it into my Junk file. I don't think their left hand knows what their right hand is doing. Yeesh.

 

[Framar]

Michael talked with his service provider and it took them 30 minutes to come to the conclusion that my provider is "echoing the messages."

WTF???

 

[AnneL]

Our old internet provider's emails used to go into their online email's junk folder all the time.

I stopped using Outlook when I got a Gmail account. It's so much easier to manage emails through there and they are stored online so I never have to worry about losing them.

A friend of mine had huge problems with her emails in Outlook when she got a new computer with a different operating system. It downloaded everything going about about 6 years and scrambled it up. She spent weeks wading through it and deleting stuff.

 

[Framar]

Well, I just went in there again to the Bell account and had to jump through more hoops to delete items permanently from the Delete file.

Stupid system!

 

[Framar]

Turns out Outlook has upgraded (LOL) my system so that "my Hotmail account" (which I have never had) is now something different.

Just checked in my sent file and found only one of these redundant emails - and the time signature was 9:28.

WTF?

I will call them when I get home and try to straighten this out.

ROWLBAZZLE!!!

 

[Framar]

I just chatted with tech support and he could not figure out what the heck I was talking about.

I will phone tonight - a lot easier than chatting.

OY.

 

[Framing:]

I had the same issue years ago with outlook by a sender from Holland the mail from Holland went into some sort of loop.... it took weeks to sort out and a huge amount of my time...

I changed to gmail and have never had a minutes trouble with gmail... and like Anne Google takes care of all my back up..

 

[Framar]

Problem solved - Bell guy says it was the Avast! program - I felt sorry for him trying to read pirate English, though....

 

[Framar]

Just spoke with a technician from Avast! and she got a kick out of my description. She told me I should have called them in the first place - not my ISP. I told her I had absolutely no idea that the problem could have come from them. LOL.

She also suggested that I have my personal tech support guy give my computer a "tune-up" on the OS - just to make sure everything is operating smoothly. She recommended such a tune-up every 3 months - just like an oil change on a car!

The end of the rest of the story.

I hope....