Microsoft KB Archive/321174

= You receive duplicate e-mail messages when you click Send/Receive in Outlook 2002 =

Article ID: 321174

Article Last Modified on 4/7/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Outlook 2002 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q321174





SYMPTOMS
When you click Send/Receive in Microsoft Outlook 2002 to download your e-mail messages, you may receive duplicate e-mail messages.



CAUSE
This problem may occur if all the following conditions are true:
 * You establish a dial-up connection when you click Send/Receive to receive your e-mail messages.
 * Your e-mail messages are delivered to your personal folders (.pst) file.
 * The dial-up connection is terminated before Outlook 2002 removes the downloaded e-mail messages from the server.



WORKAROUND
To work around this problem, establish your dial-up connection before you start Microsoft Outlook 2002 to receive your e-mail messages.



Service Pack Information
This problem is corrected in Office XP Service Pack 3.To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Microsoft Office XP. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

307841 How to obtain the latest Office XP Service Pack

Hotfix Information
A supported hotfix is now available from Microsoft, but it is only intended to correct the problem that is described in this article. Only apply it to systems that are experiencing this specific problem. This hotfix may receive additional testing. Therefore, if you are not severely affected by this problem, we recommend that you wait for the next Microsoft Office XP service pack that contains this hotfix.

To resolve this problem immediately, contact Microsoft Product Support Services to obtain the hotfix. For a complete list of Microsoft Product Support Services telephone numbers and information about support costs, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

http://support.microsoft.com/contactus/?ws=support

Note In special cases, charges that are ordinarily incurred for support calls may be canceled if a Microsoft Support Professional determines that a specific update will resolve your problem. The usual support costs will apply to additional support questions and issues that do not qualify for the specific update in question.

The global version of this hotfix has the file attributes (or later) that are listed in the following table. The dates and times for these files are listed in coordinated universal time (UTC). When you view the file information, it is converted to local time. To find the difference between UTC and local time, use the Time Zone tab in the Date and Time tool in Control Panel.   Date         Time   Size       File name 17-Sep-2002 09:06  2,121,536  Outlook.msp 17-Sep-2002 09:46  4,065,280  Outlook_admin.msp After the hotfix is installed, the following files will have the listed attributes or later:   Date         Time   Version      Size       File name 16-Aug-2002 20:05  10.0.4413.0    346,696  Exsec32.dll 09-Aug-2002 02:22  10.0.4406.0    137,800  Impmail.dll 09-Aug-2002 02:22  10.0.4406.0    539,208  Outlcm.dll 13-Sep-2002 02:52  10.0.4510.0  6,310,472  Outllib.dll 13-Sep-2002 02:52  10.0.4510.0     92,744  Outlmime.dll 09-Aug-2002 02:22  10.0.4406.0    121,416  Outlph.dll This hotfix is a post-Office XP Service Pack 2 (SP-2) hotfix. To install the hotfix, you must have Office XP SP-2 installed. For additional information about Office XP SP-2, click the following article number to see the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

325671 OFFXP: Overview of the Office XP Service Pack 2

Additionally, you may have to install Windows Installer 2.0 to install this hotfix. For additional information about the Windows Installer requirement for post-Office XP SP-2 hotfixes, click the following article number to see the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

330537 OFFXP: Office XP Updates and Patches Released After September 2002 May Require Windows Installer 2.0



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the &quot;Applies to&quot; section of this article. This problem was first corrected in Office XP Service Pack 3.



MORE INFORMATION
For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

824684 Description of the standard terminology that is used to describe Microsoft software updates

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