Thanks for the suggestions. I went ahead and re-downloaded the mail, then deleted the duplicates. (Luckily I just had a speed upgrade in my internet connection.)
The issue was definitely with PowerMail, as my email account (at my internet provider) does not keep track of whether or not mail has been downloaded to PowerMail. Clearly PM keeps a log somewhere of what mail it has downloaded and not. When I deleted the Mail Accounts setup in PM for downloaded mail I am sure PM also deleted the list of mail it had already downloaded. PM is apparently not smart enough to see that two Mail Accounts have the same POP settings. This is why I only set up one of the two Mail Accounts to download mail - if both had been set up PM would have downloaded each message twice. (Again, I had two accounts set up due to a change in how my internet provider accepts sent mail.) My main email does not have IMAP. Thanks again. - Winston Matthias Schmidt wrote: > > >I believe this has nothing to do with PM, but the server "pushes" these >mails again .... > >So, I'd setup a filter for these mails, so that they get collected in >one folder and redownload them and delete the whole folder after downloading. >Or you use IMAP and delete them from the server. > > > >Thanks and all the best > >Matthias > > >Am/On Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:22:01 -0500 schrieb/wrote Winston Weinmann: > >>I had two versions of the account information for my main email account >>in Mail Accounts. The older one was set up for receiving mail, the newer >>one for sending. Yesterday I deleted the older account and now have set >>the newer one to check for mail. >> >>Now PowerMail wants to re-download all previously downloaded mail. I >>keep 2 months of mail on web mail as a backup. >> >>I assume that when I deleted the older settings in Mail Accounts >>PowerMail lost the log of what mail it had already downloaded.Is there >>any way to keep PowerMail from re-downloading the email it has already >>downloaded?