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Stuck Email Message (I receive it over and over)

Something is wrong and I keep receiving the same email message over and over again and nothing else.

**** You can receive an email over and over again for a couple different reasons.
1. If your computer will not finish downloading a specific Email it will start over every time you check email. This can happen for a variety of reasons:

The email is too big and your email client has a max size setting set in the options.
The email is too big and your modem won't handle it (check our modem trade in plan)
The email is encrypted and your modem drivers are not properly installed causing your modem to see a "disconnect" sequence in the encrypted data. (reinstall your modem drivers or get a new modem with good drivers)
Your email folders are corrupted (this is an easy one to fix)

To stop these problems (Or perhaps Find Missing Emails on you PC)

1 Compress your folders to fix any corrupted folders
In Outlook Express
Click File
Click Folders
Click Compress Folders

2. Delete the offending (generally big) email using webmail.
go to http://webmail.usfamily.net/cgi-bin/webmail.cgi
enter your email address and
enter your email password
click login
click the check mark in front of the offending email
click the image of the RED X to delete that offending email

3. Check your email normally.