I lost my emails when I created a new rule- how can I get them bac

[Guest]

My boss has two emails coming into one outlook box - I helped him set up a
folder for one of the email addresses and a rule to send those emails to the
new folder- once we ran the rule for the whole inbox - ALL the inbox emails
disappeared! I cannot find them anywhere. What could have happened? How can I
reverse it???

PLEASE HELP!

 

[VanguardLH]

My boss has two emails coming into one outlook box - I helped him
set up a
folder for one of the email addresses and a rule to send those
emails to the
new folder- once we ran the rule for the whole inbox - ALL the inbox
emails
disappeared! I cannot find them anywhere. What could have happened?
How can I
reverse it???

What is an "outlook box"? Outlook is an e-mail client. The mailbox
up on the mail server is totally independent of whatever e-mail client
you use. Your boss only had 2 e-mails delivered to his mailbox?
Well, for such a low count, your boss could simply asked the senders
to resend those 2 e-mails (after disabling your new rule, of course,
so they stay in the Inbox).

We are supposed to guess at what rule you defined (clauses,
conditions, operands)? The permutations possible using rules is so
large that you could probably fill a large hard drive with the
possibilities.

Was this the only rule defined? Was it the only one
exercised/enabled?

If you defined a rule to move items out of the Inbox into some other
folder then where is the problem that they no longer appear in the
Inbox?

 

[Guest]

Emily,

Sorry to hear about your troubles as I imagine your boss isn't too happy at
the moment. Not to worry, if for some reason your rule actually deleted the
messages we can usually recover them and if they are just hiding we can find
them. Could you do me a favor and either write out verbatim what it says in
the rule's description that you created (what it says in the box at the
bottom of the create a rule wizard) or perhaps you can just export your rules
and email the exported rule file to me. If you can't write out the rule, post
back and I will post my email address.

Matt Bowgren
Please nominate me for Outlook MVP

 

[VanguardLH]

Matt Bowgren
Please nominate me for Outlook MVP

At least learn how to insert signatures into your posts for the
unrelated stuff (i.e., add the "-- " sigdash delimiter line and then
follow with your personal signature stuff).

 

[Guest]

Just for the sake of not having to deal with you. I'm out.

 

[Brian Tillman]

Just for the sake of not having to deal with you. I'm out.

One person's response can set you off that easily? You'll need to be made
of sterner stuff to be an MVP.

 

[VanguardLH]

in message

One person's response can set you off that easily? You'll need to
be made of sterner stuff to be an MVP.

Thin-skinned egos don't last long in Usenet. More than likely is that
he found out that a couple dozen help posts wasn't going to earn him
that shiny "MVP" badge.