It sounds like a communications link issue with your PC only. I assume you are on a LAN and it may just be your local connection to the Router - either the interface cable or a bad LAN port (or the Router may just need repowering or resetting).
The fact you are getting mutiple copies of the same e-mail's usually means the ISP's mail server is never seeing a positive acknowledgement for the message sent and without the "ACK" is assumes the message was not delivered and sends it again. Also with the "time out" on your e-mail send, that goes along with the ACK issue for incoming mail.
Since it started yesterday, was there any updates or changes done to the PC? If there was (and Tuesday is when Microsoft sent out their monthly updates but some PC's may be Wednesday or later before they get them) maybe it's one of the updates. You can use the System Restore function and restore the PC to an earlier date to see if there was something changed. If it doesn't make any difference there is an option to "undo" the System Restore.
I had a problem with the "Windows Genuine Advantage" update and had to use the System Restore myself as everything on my PC slowed down to a "crawl" - after doing the System Restore to remove the "Windows Genuine Advantage" update everything is working fine again (the WGA update is KB905474).
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It sounds like a communications link issue with your PC only. I assume you are on a LAN and it may just be your local connection to the Router - either the interface cable or a bad LAN port (or the Router may just need repowering or resetting).
The fact you are getting mutiple copies of the same e-mail's usually means the ISP's mail server is never seeing a positive acknowledgement for the message sent and without the "ACK" is assumes the message was not delivered and sends it again. Also with the "time out" on your e-mail send, that goes along with the ACK issue for incoming mail.
Since it started yesterday, was there any updates or changes done to the PC? If there was (and Tuesday is when Microsoft sent out their monthly updates but some PC's may be Wednesday or later before they get them) maybe it's one of the updates. You can use the System Restore function and restore the PC to an earlier date to see if there was something changed. If it doesn't make any difference there is an option to "undo" the System Restore.
I had a problem with the "Windows Genuine Advantage" update and had to use the System Restore myself as everything on my PC slowed down to a "crawl" - after doing the System Restore to remove the "Windows Genuine Advantage" update everything is working fine again (the WGA update is KB905474).