Outlook leaves garbage email files on my C Drive

[DEMillerUSN]

I have outlook set up to receive emails from several POP3 email accounts.
Everytime I get a new email, a file is saved on my C drive root with a
sequential file name (s3gc.1, s3gc.2, s3gc.3...) which is essentially the
text of the email and headers. I've searched the knowledge base and
discussion groups with no reference to this problem. I'm also running
Symantic Antivirus ver 10.1.4.4000 with email scanning enabled. I've
conducted a complete virus and spyware scan with nothing detected. Please
help, this is filling up my hard drive and slowing down Outlook! I'm almost
ready to uninstall/reinstall, but would like to avoid if possible.

ALSO - If I do have to uninstall/reinstall, is there an easy way to
backup/save the email profile? I have about 8 accounts entered and don't
wish to re-enter each one individually if at all possible.

Thanks!!

 

[F. H. Muffman]

I have outlook set up to receive emails from several POP3 email accounts.
Everytime I get a new email, a file is saved on my C drive root with a
sequential file name (s3gc.1, s3gc.2, s3gc.3...) which is essentially the
text of the email and headers. I've searched the knowledge base and
discussion groups with no reference to this problem. I'm also running
Symantic Antivirus ver 10.1.4.4000 with email scanning enabled. I've
conducted a complete virus and spyware scan with nothing detected. Please
help, this is filling up my hard drive and slowing down Outlook! I'm
almost
ready to uninstall/reinstall, but would like to avoid if possible.

ALSO - If I do have to uninstall/reinstall, is there an easy way to
backup/save the email profile? I have about 8 accounts entered and don't
wish to re-enter each one individually if at all possible.

Well, Outlook doesn't actually do that. Have you tried disably the Symantic
Antivirus email scanning to see if it goes away?

 

[Peter Foldes]

Disable your Symantec email integration (incoming and outgoing email scanning)

 

[DEMillerUSN]

Thanks - The email scanning seems to have worked. I disabled twice (Symantec
re-enabled scanning the first time on its own), then re-enabled, and now it
seems to have quit saving the files.

I can't tell you how many times I've rebooted/restarted the anti-virus
program, etc, but it seems that you have to specifically cycle the Symantic
email scanning settings to correct the problem.