• e-mail problem

    Posted by Gary Birch on January 4, 2007 at 10:11 am

    Strange thing happened just now. When I shut down the pc last night I had messages in my inbox which I had to respond to or take action from. Now when I logged in to my Outlook Express this morning they had all disappeared. I have searched all my folders including the deleted items but no joy.

    Has anyone got any ideas what has happened here??

    Any help appreciated.

    Cheers

    Gary

    Gary Birch replied 17 years, 3 months ago 4 Members · 8 Replies
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  • David Rowland

    Member
    January 4, 2007 at 10:58 am

    is your "my documents"/desktop and favorites all in working order?

  • Gary Birch

    Member
    January 4, 2007 at 11:03 am

    Dave
    Yes as far as I can see all is in working order there…. it certainly has got me baffled but that don`t take much nowadays lol.

    Cheers

    Gary

  • Nick Minall

    Member
    January 4, 2007 at 11:59 am

    What did the message say?

  • Gary Birch

    Member
    January 4, 2007 at 1:22 pm

    Nick
    I mean email messages that seemed to just disappear and no i haven`t been drinking the isopropyl lol ….. not yet anyway

    Gary

  • Martin Pearson

    Member
    January 4, 2007 at 2:36 pm

    Gary, what email program are you running? Some email programs do this as part of their clean-up routine. Did you actually download it or did you read it off the server?
    What anti virus software are you running maybe this link will help.

    http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=321505

  • Nick Minall

    Member
    January 4, 2007 at 3:23 pm

    yes, maybe they have just been "archived" to a different folder?

  • David Rowland

    Member
    January 4, 2007 at 3:34 pm

    I’m thinking cleanup routine too
    sometimes Outlook will spend ages recovering data from a bad shutdown and I have lost email because it failed in past.

  • Gary Birch

    Member
    January 11, 2007 at 8:53 am

    Thanks guys it turned out to be Mcafee. But its all sorted now.

    Thanks again

    Gary

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