Lost Inbox

[T.J.]

Hi,
I hope someone can help me recover my missing inbox. I am using outlook
2003 that was connected to an exchange server. I had two inboxes - my main
box and the archive box. We are shutting down operations and I shut the
server down. I wanted to configure outlook to grab the emails from the
external pop3 server and deliver them to my main box. To stop the popup
messages from outlook stating that it couldn't find the server I deleted the
exchange connection (not the email box). When setting up the new POP
connection it asked me where to deliver the new mail. My only choice was to
select the archive box or create a new one. I created a new one. Now I have
lost access to my old inbox and I would really like to get it back. I
searched the HD for .PST files but I don't see one. Can I get access to my
old box or do I have to fire the server back up, reconnect the client, and
copy my inbox into an archive PST?

Thank you for your help.

T.J.

 

[Roady [MVP]]

You need to do the last.
By deleting the Exchange account, you no longer have a delivery location
configured other then your archive file as the Exchange mailbox is tied to
your account.

Simply putting Outlook in Offline Mode would have sufficed as well instead
of deleting the account to get rid of the prompts (provided that you had
your Exchange account set to use Cached Exchange Mode). The cache file is an
ost-file and not a pst-file.

As an alternative you can also export all the mailboxes on the Exchange
server to pst-files via EXMERGE.