I am getting messages with over 2 weeks delay...not sure why...

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Krisztian

I am getting messages from 23 June today as an example but it seems to be
common to get emails in my inbox with 2 weeks earlier date. I am not sure if
this is an outlook or an internet provider issue. Also my inbox is only 10
KB, is this common or shall I shop around for another provider?
Thank you in advance, your time is greatly appreciated.
 
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Vince Averello [MVP - Outlook]

I'm guessing you mean 10MB, not 10KB since 10K is about one or two messages.
Sounds like you've got a provider issue since Outlook doesn't control the
items in your ISP's POP3 inbox.
 
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VanguardLH

Krisztian said:
I am getting messages from 23 June today as an example but it seems to be
common to get emails in my inbox with 2 weeks earlier date. I am not sure if
this is an outlook or an internet provider issue. Also my inbox is only 10
KB, is this common or shall I shop around for another provider?
Thank you in advance, your time is greatly appreciated.
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Look at the Received headers in an e-mail to see the delivery datestamp
at each node in the routing of the e-mail to your mailbox. See if there
is a 2-week delay in the datestamps.

Send yourself a test e-mail. Check its date. Is it today's date? If
not, the problem is up on the mail server.

Are the old-dated message also messages that you received before?
Sometime when a mail server is restored, like from backups, it will be
in a state back when the backup was saved so all those old e-mails show
up again in your mailbox.
 
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