Make sure each folder you look in has its view set to "Show All Messages"
rather than "Hide Read Messages".
Also make sure you do not have your Junk E-mail Options configured to
"Permanently delete..."
--
Gary VanderMolen, MS-MVP
"JackF" <JackF@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:5CD90436-9836-4E5C-AA0F-34CBFC00F47F@xxxxxx
Quote:
>I noticed today that I wasn't getting any email. So I sent myself a test
> email (from a yahoo account), hit send/receive, got the usual box saying
> "receiving 1 of 1", it looked like it was downloading (but no green bar) and
> then no email. I checked all the folders, and it's not here. I also
> searched the entire computer, and none of the email sent to me in the last 12
> hours is here. I (eventually) rebooted, and windows mail is now again
> receiving email as usual. My ISP confirms that my email was downloaded off
> their server, but there's no sign of it here.
>
> I know of at least one important email that was sent and did not download.
> Any thoughts on what may have happened and whether there's any way to recover
> my lost bits? (My ISP has promised to restore any email that was on their
> server at midnight, but anything since then is gone.)