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Old 05-23-2008   #2 (permalink)
Gary VanderMolen


 
 

Re: Weird lost email problem - email downloaded from ISP, but not foun

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..."

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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.)
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