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My Galaxy S3 phone recently received an update. My POP3 e-mail via Comcast now downloads e-mails from several weeks ago, apparently when it wants and however many it wants, at the same time it checks for new e-mails. I end up 'marking as read' and deleting these in bulk time and again. I've tried NOT marking as read as well. This did not happen until after the update. Any suggestions?

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Have you checked your server settings for POP3? It might not be set to "delete from server". – Izzy Mar 13 at 16:58

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You have to tell the mail application to delete the messages from the server explicitly. This options is provided during the initial setup, but is also accessible from the Account Setup options. Change "Delete message from server" from "Never" to "When I delete from Inbox".

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