I have read several "so called answers" to this, but, so far, no one has been able to give an answer. I guess I am the latest to try to get MS to fix this problem.

I used to get Outlook Express and it worked great! I used it for years and, whenever I switched computers, it was on there and I just set it up and it worked fine. Whenever I read an email, I would delete, most of them, and it would get more.

About 4 years ago, I had to go and download Windows Live Mail and it has sucked! After I set it up, it starts to download my headers, and it kept downloading and downloading and downloading. A lot of them I had deleted months before. I finally stopped it at 2000 messages and decided I would delete them. I got off the internet and started clicking delete and, two hours later, I had all of them gone. I hooked back up and it started downloading ALL OF THE ONES THAT I HAD DELETED and many more. Talk about frustrating!!

I finally thought I'd have to live with it doing that. After two weeks later, I looked an it had over 30,000 email headers on their from a year and a half ago. I decided to buy a laptop and went through the process. This time, using the exact same settings as the other one, it would download the newest emails ONLY. I don't have a clue why. I bought a new computer today and, started the WLM up and it is downloading as I write this. It's been about an hour and over 12,000 message headers dating back to September of last year.

It is FRUSTRATING, Microsoft! Why don't you fix this problem? Why not answer the questions instead of putting wrong information our there?