Help UGH! Galaxy S3 Keeps Pulling Old Emails

ALR60 said:

I know there are threads about this but none of the ones I've turned up actually have solutions.

I have a Samsung Galaxy S3. Not rooted. AT&T. I am using the factory email program to access 3 POP accounts. At work, I use Thunderbird.

Neither one removes anything from the mail server. I go in and clear it out from time to time.

All year I've dealt with old emails coming in, nagging me. So, I deleted everything from the mail server yesterday. Then I tried to delete everything on the phone from the Trash folder (15,000 emails). That didn't work out so well and never actually even worked. Just hung. So I went in and cleared out the cache on the phone. That nuked all of my accounts from the phone.

OK, so now I end up with no email on the phone and have to start over again. I set up the first account that has 0 emails on the mail serer. I make sure all settings look right and check email.

Guess what - still getting old emails - some from 2012 even! Where the heck are they coming from and why does it seem so random as to which ones come back? Some are last year, some are yesterday or last week. There's no pattern I can find.

Driving me bat*#(@ crazy!!!

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I am having the same problem. It started happening following the recent AT&T firmware update. Still deleting e-mails from early 2012 and I get recurring e-mails from last week/ monts.

ALR60 said:

I know there are threads about this but none of the ones I've turned up actually have solutions.

I have a Samsung Galaxy S3. Not rooted. AT&T. I am using the factory email program to access 3 POP accounts. At work, I use Thunderbird.

Neither one removes anything from the mail server. I go in and clear it out from time to time.

All year I've dealt with old emails coming in, nagging me. So, I deleted everything from the mail server yesterday. Then I tried to delete everything on the phone from the Trash folder (15,000 emails). That didn't work out so well and never actually even worked. Just hung. So I went in and cleared out the cache on the phone. That nuked all of my accounts from the phone.

OK, so now I end up with no email on the phone and have to start over again. I set up the first account that has 0 emails on the mail serer. I make sure all settings look right and check email.

Guess what - still getting old emails - some from 2012 even! Where the heck are they coming from and why does it seem so random as to which ones come back? Some are last year, some are yesterday or last week. There's no pattern I can find.

Driving me bat*#(@ crazy!!!

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I have had the same problem, then I went into my email account settings, clicked on the account I was getting all the emails from which sent me to a drop down menu starting with common settings. I scrolled down to sync settings. There is a section there named 'Period to sync email' where I hit the arrow to open that up and I had (4) choices: 1 week, 2 weeks, 1 month, or 1 month or 100 emails. I checked 1 week, and that helped out tremendously.

That might help you.

I have the same problem too. Although I know part of it is with the type of email server you use. You guys that have emails on your phone that are not on your web accessible email is because you're using a POP style email setup. It means the email stays on the server and then the device pulls and stores its own (2nd) copy on the phone. It works the same way with email clients such as Thunderbird too. ALR60 you may want to go in to your email through your web browser and clear it there. It should remove any old emails you're getting, because what you're phone is doing is checking the server not Thunderbird you email client. It's only a peripheral or user interface for seeing the email that's already on the server. Thunderbird is also downloading and storing the email physically on your computer, like your phone, if you're using a POP style email server.

The problem I am having though is similar, however it's the fact that I've already viewed the emails so they should NOT be pulling to me phone as that is how I have mine setup. Any that I know I have already viewed on my phone are also coming up. There's something buggy about the manufacturer email software. I'd like to see if anyone has a fix for this. I don't really want to upgrade my email to IMAP cause what I have now, is well, free. I don't mind using a POP server but what the phone is doing should not be happening. Anyone got any suggestions on this?