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Subject: Mail Disappearing - Desperate
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Keith Goddard User is Offline
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3/20/2008 02:26 PM  
I have a client who has a mail problem I have never seen or heard of and I dont know how to fix it.
Basically what happens is that all mail in his inbox vanishes, and this happens every 3weeks or so. He has folders within his mailbox and they are not affected nor is the deleted or sent items folder, only the inbox.
 
This problem started after he got an error message saying that there was a rules conflict between the client and server, I think he selected client and from then on this problem.  It seems that the client got a new laptop and decided to set it up himself but he did not join the domain and just configured outlook to see the server. He still gets the conflict message just before he looses his mail.
 
The mail also seems to be deleted from his mailbox store in exchange. I cannot verify this as the machine does not have enough free space to do an exmerge to get the mailbox out. He is using the same version of office as was on his previous machine
 
Also his mailbox store is just over 2Gb and no-one else in the company have this problem
 
What I have done:
Joined the pc to the domain.
Turned off all instances of autoarchive.
Turned off all of the rules in outlook.
Reinstalled outlook and recreated his profile.
Logged on to other machines.
Tried to recover deleted items
My last effort was to have the mail delivered to a pst file on his local machine.
 
At this moment I am not sure what else to try.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Kevin Da Silva User is Offline
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3/20/2008 07:10 PM  
If you think it has to do with the rules, from within Outlook open "Tools" then "Rules and Alerts" that will have all rules configured on that mailbox, server side and client side.


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Keith Goddard User is Offline
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3/21/2008 10:51 AM  
To be honest I am not longer sure what is the cause of this problem, but I have gone through the rules in outlook and there was only 1 listed which I removed.
Keith Goddard User is Offline
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5/01/2008 02:04 PM  
In the end I was left with deleting his AD account on the server and profile on his pc.
This seems to have fixed this problem, or at least I havent heard from him about it.

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