messages disappear from Exchange server

[Guest]

Using SBS 2003 at work, with remote access. This weekend I tried using the
Connection Manager to access the network from my home PC. I got connected,
and when I started Outlook 2002, my inbox began to fill. Fortunately, I
stopped before it loaded everything, because now those messages are missing
from my office PC (using Outlook 2003). I thought Outlook left copies of
messages on the Exchange server.

How do I recover them? Outlook created the file outlook.pst on my home PC.

 

[Roady [MVP]]

Sounds like you configured it as a POP3 account then which is a download
only account type. Bring the pst-file to your work computer connect it and
move them back.

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Robert Sparnaaij [MVP-Outlook]
Coauthor, Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003


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Using SBS 2003 at work, with remote access. This weekend I tried using the
Connection Manager to access the network from my home PC. I got connected,
and when I started Outlook 2002, my inbox began to fill. Fortunately, I
stopped before it loaded everything, because now those messages are missing
from my office PC (using Outlook 2003). I thought Outlook left copies of
messages on the Exchange server.

How do I recover them? Outlook created the file outlook.pst on my home PC.

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP-Outlook]]

You apparently had Outlook configured with a mail profile that had delivery set to a local .pst file. Therefore, Outlook moved all the items from your mailbox into that file's Inbox. The solution is to close Outlook, and go to Control Panel | Mail and change the default delivery location to the mailbox, not the .pst file. You can then drag all the items that were moved out of the mailbox back into the mailbox's Inbox.

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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Author of Configuring Microsoft Outlook 2003

and Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers