Why are my emails being received in triplicate?

For some reason a couple of days ago I suddenly started receiving all my emails in triplicate? Help!!!
Also on the left under all my folders it says Popstat1 Popstat 2 and so forth. Any suggestions will be gratefully received. Thank you Heath

Your 'popstate.dat' file keeps a record of what it has downloaded, so that when it connects with the server and looks in the server Inbox, it should not download anything that was previously downloaded.
In your case, you have kept old previously downloaded mail in the server Inbox and the confused popstate.dat is seeing them as needing to be downloaded.
This means that the 'popstate,dat' file must be corrupted - gone awol - because it keeps downloading previously downloaded emails.
You need to access your Profile Folders and delete the 'popstate.dat' file.
Profile Folders are hidden folders.
make hidden files and folders visible:
* http://kb.mozillazine.org/Show_hidden_files_and_folders
access Profile Folder:
* http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_Thunderbird
In thunderbird:
* Help > Troubleshooting Information
* click on 'Show Folder'
* a new window opens showing your Profile Folder.
* Close Thunderbird now - this is important
* Click on 'Mail' folder
* click on 'mail account name'
* look for 'popstate.dat' file and delete it.
if you have other files - Popstat1 Popstat 2 - delete them as well.
* close the window.
* Open Thunderbird.
What will this do?
When Thunderbird restarts, it will create a new 'popstate.dat' file. The downside is this. As it has no knowledge of what has been downloaded, it will download everything that is on the server Inbox, but only once.
The good thing is this. This should fix the popstate.dat file and prevent further downloads of previously downloaded mail.
You will then need to delete any duplicates that were previously downloaded. There is an addon that you could use to help with duplicates.
* https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/thunderbird/addon/remove-duplicate-messages/
see image for where popstate.dat file is located.

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