How to remove Duplicate Email from inbox Live Mail.

All you have to do is change your account settings to IMAP instead of POP3 it's as simple as that. 

Whoa!  This comment is from Microsoft and other mail programs:

You cannot switch between POP and IMAP

• IMAP - stays in-synch with the account your logging in to with all devices
• POP - always gets new messages for the device requesting

Best thing to do is,

1. export the emails you want from the POP account
2. disable your POP account
3. create your new IMAP account
4. Import the POP-EMAILS into your IMAP account.... End comment

And there are other considerations as well.  I'm not sure that this will not bring in your emails again.  IMAP is basically used to be able to check on email from various devices.  All of the emails are stored on the IMAP server and not on your computer.

Another cause is deleting, and then remaking, of an account. 

As for manually deleting emails: when they are in the hundreds?

All you have to do is change your account settings to IMAP instead of POP3 it's as simple as that.

That's how I got in trouble the first time: changed the accounts as recommended and went from small number to over 30,000.  However, I believe a fix for my email timing out may be a logical fix for this problem.  Go to your email provider and log in.  Make a new folder called Temp or something.  Move all of your regular emails in the inbox to Temp.  You may have to do this screen by screen as my provider att.net would only let me move 50 at a time.

Go back into your email and delete all of your emails - original and duplicates.  This will delete everything but since there is nothing in your provider's inbox, nothing will be deleted there.  Close your email.  Go back to your provider and move the emails from Temp back to the inbox.

Go back to your email and download your emails.  Your inbox is empty and only the emails from your provider inbox will download.  The only problem is that any emails in your other folders will be downloaded again into your inbox.  I don't know but someone may have an answer.  If you delete the duplicate emails from your inbox that you have in folders will the emails in folders disappear.  I don't think so but I'm no expert on Live Mail.

CAUTION:  Some one who has a small email account should try this out first to verify that it works.  I know how files and folders work and in gmail, folders are only labels and when you move or delete an email, just the label changes and the email shows up in the appropriate folder.

Jim

I reconfigured and now have exactly the same problem.  Every time I check mail, it is as if I'm starting from scratch, so I now have over 50,000 messages!  Hope someone can help unduplicate these messages.

Thanks.