Disappearing emails

bsd13 · 02-28-2008, 11:07 AM

I have two separate clients that work for two separate companies each is experiencing nearly identical issues with missing emails. One is missing a block of 3 days (2/22 - 2/25/08) and the other is missing nearly 12 days of emails. The emails are both missing in Outlook and in OWA. They both have hundreds of emails before and at least 50-75 after. It's as if a blackhole swept through and just swallowed up those emails.

In both cases the desktop OS is XP Pro SP2 running Outlook 2003 as the client.

So far in addition to checking via OWA I've made sure that the filters were set correctly, doublechecked that the outlook.pst location was correct, ran the scan tool on the .pst file. Unfortunately neither server is running email recovery or I would have tried that.

Any suggestions are more than welcomed!

Thanks!

**XtabbedoutX** · 02-28-2008, 07:39 PM

Aside from a virus, Spyware, Malware, etc. I am guessing a malicious person. That is about the only thing I can think of that would cause this.

02-28-2008, 11:07 AM	#1 (permalink)
bsd13 Registered User Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 1 OS: XP SP2	Disappearing emails I have two separate clients that work for two separate companies each is experiencing nearly identical issues with missing emails. One is missing a block of 3 days (2/22 - 2/25/08) and the other is missing nearly 12 days of emails. The emails are both missing in Outlook and in OWA. They both have hundreds of emails before and at least 50-75 after. It's as if a blackhole swept through and just swallowed up those emails. In both cases the desktop OS is XP Pro SP2 running Outlook 2003 as the client. So far in addition to checking via OWA I've made sure that the filters were set correctly, doublechecked that the outlook.pst location was correct, ran the scan tool on the .pst file. Unfortunately neither server is running email recovery or I would have tried that. Any suggestions are more than welcomed! Thanks!

02-28-2008, 07:39 PM	#2 (permalink)
XtabbedoutX TSF Enthusiast Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Oklahoma City Posts: 1,189 OS: Server 2K3 R2 SP 2, Server 2K SP4, XP PRO SP 3, Mac OS X 10.5, iPhone My System	Re: Disappearing emails Aside from a virus, Spyware, Malware, etc. I am guessing a malicious person. That is about the only thing I can think of that would cause this.