unread mail

[mackab24]

hi everyone, just a quick query. can anyone tell me why when i log on to my home pc, it says that the users have unread mail? i know its not my hotmail account or my outlook express.

[ROBERTS2005]

Unfortunately i can't help, but i experience the same problem. I have been told by some people that it is just an error. I think its just that the login screen is not to updated with the mail software like Outlook Express, and hotmail. I once had no new e-mails even though it displayed me as havigng over 300!

[capper1985]

it may be because you haven't read them through outlook,

if their hotmail messages and you read them through hotmail.com/co.uk but have the account setup on outlook,

then outlook will never know you've already seen them, check you outlook to see if theres an account setup to receive your hotmails...

if there is, you hotmails will be going to your outlook aswell as hotmail inbox...

[WoWo]

What happens is Windows stores the number of unread messages when you connect to an appropriate email program.

What can happen is user X signs on by user Y checks their email account. Then user X signs off and on again but windows still reports the number of user Y's emails, because user X then doesn't ever sign on to Y's mail it never updates the unread total.

It can also happen when you connect to your own email on a PC, don't read the emails then log on to another PC and read them on there.

Check this out if you want to have a clean up

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1936650,0 0.asp