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First, a bit of background so that the problem might make sense.
I check e-mail from my laptop during the day, and from my desktop in the evening. Both run MacMail, and to my knowledge (checked several times) both have almost exactly the same settings. The only known difference is that only after the desktop has retrieved an e-mail and a week has passed do the e-mail get removed from the server. (Thus, I always have at least one complete record of received mail).
Yesterday, I noted that when I clicked "get mail" the desktop would have 2000 e-mail. This takes some time to download. Over the last 24 hours, the number of e-mail to be downloaded is about 5000. BUT, only on the desktop. Further, looking at my inbox, the trash, and the junk folders combined, nowhere near this number is actually new each time. Getting mail from the same servers on my laptop, in the same time frame, has remained in the one to three hundred which is more or less normal. Same e-mail accounts, same settings. The desktop does not seem to recognize when an e-mail has previously been downloaded until it is downloaded again. The laptop seems to be able to make this distinction.
Any thoughts?
Both are running Lion, and have been updated frequently.
Thanks,
Adam

The inbound is Backscatter see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backscatter_%28email%29
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