Nevertheless I have to cope with certain situations and one is that Microsoft Outlook creates duplicate emails from time to time due to various “hick ups”. If you take a look at Microsoft’s knowledgebase you soon find out that it lists several situations where Outlook might download the same email message more than once. I listed some of them for your convenience in the next paragraph.

• You are prompted for your password, and you may receive duplicate e-mail messages if your profile has two POP3 accounts in Outlook (link)
• Duplicate e-mail messages are downloaded from a POP3 e-mail server account in Outlook 2003 (link)
• Duplicate junk e-mail messages appear in the Junk E-mail folder in Outlook 2003 (link)

This are just some of the knowledgebase articles that you can find searching for duplicate mails in Outlook 2003. The same applies to other versions of Microsoft Outlook including 2002 for instance. Now to clear the duplicate emails you can use the free software Microsoft Outlook Duplicate Items Remover which scans a selected folder for duplicate emails and moves them to a separate folder where you can delete them easily.

This is by far the easiest way to cope with this situation. The software does not only remove duplicate emails in Microsoft Outlook but also duplicate notes, contacts, calendar entries and tasks making it pretty universal.