Why does Mail pull in old emails from my windows live email address?

I've got various active e-mail addresses from new and old internet providers, and if i use them they will continue to work, (so i'm told)
but the one i've got from when i had a windows phone (i know.... i was er... experimenting ) and for my xbox account, just seems to
pull in old e-mails (a week or more, e-mails i've already had through other e-mail addresses) noticed it more this xmas,
as the sales had ended by the time i received an e-mail from windows live,
does anyone know why?

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You have posted in the Mail & AB forum for Leopard, and not Snow Leopard, and the system info posting below any of your responses reports 10.5.6 -- you should correct the latter.
For some using Snow Leopard and using Time Machine, this has been leading edge issue, and one that hopefully will be dealt with by the next update to SL. What seems to happen with Mail 4.x and use of Time Machine, is that the file that in normal use prevents duplicate downloads gets restored to an old version, and thus Mail does not know it has downloaded the messages previously. Purging the MessageUidsAlreadyDownloaded3 file will cure briefly (after enduring one more download of all messages on the server, but the problem will return because of Time Machine. Are you using Time Machine?
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