Email administration should be just one of the duties of a typical administrator for any large company. Most often email administration is performed by network administrators and sometimes by operating system administrators. Most day to day email administration consists of pretty routine activities.

However, you’ll sometimes find yourself with a never before seen problem. One such problem is that of duplicate emails. Thankfully, this is an infrequent occurrence.

Email inboxes use up a lot of space as it is and having limits on the amount of inbox space a user can use can be helpful as an alert mechanism for spotting trouble with duplicate email messages. A lot of duplicate emails can use up a lot of space and fill up your end users’ inboxes almost overnight. And these duplicate email messages can certainly cause confusion and negatively impact a company’s productivity.

Some administrators have noticed this problem when they’ve downloaded email messages using Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 from a POP3 (Post Office Protocol) email server and then on their next download they notice that duplicate email messages have been downloaded as well.

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