Email being moved to Deleted Items folder automatically

A customer just upgraded to Office 365. They are saying that new email is automatically being deleted/moved to Deleted Items folder.

More info:

  1. There are many users and its happening to all mailboxes
  2. Each user opens multiple mailboxes but only one user opens all mailboxes.
  3. It happened when only one user had Outlook open. This user was the user that opens all the other users mailboxes.
  4. They swear they are not deleting the email manually. They seem to be reasonably computer literate so I don't think they are in fact manually deleting the email.
  5. Email accumulates in the inbox overnight but is only deleted/moved inappropriately during business hours when Outlook is being used.
  6. Email is deleted/moved after a while and not immediately. For example, test email I sent was deleted/moved after about 4 hours.
  7. Run outlook.exe /cleanviews
  8. Removed server and client side rules for all users
  9. Deleted and recreated Outlook profiles
  10. Disabled IMAP/POP3 in Office 365 management console.
  11. They previously had IMAP accounts and email was exported from the IMAP account then imported into Office 365 using Outlook 2010.
  12. They also have an issue where folders originally created while they were using IMAP accounts still have IMAP properties/views now they have been imported into Office 365. The default view for all these folders is "Hide email scheduled for deletion" and this automatically hides new email manually moved to these folders. They have to repeatedly manually modify the view and remove the filter.

Any help is appreciated.

manually deleted all client and server rules

August 4th, 2015 9:18pm

Hello,

If you have tried all possible solutions, then you should read this article once:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2697913

Thanks & Regards

Clark Kent 

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August 5th, 2015 12:33am

Hi,

Is the kb provided by Clark helpful?

Regards,

Melon Chen

Forum Support

August 11th, 2015 11:14pm

Thanks for the info Clark. Did what the article suggested and no deletions for a day but deleting again now. Deleting/moving new email somewhere between 2hrs and 2 days (over weekend).
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August 12th, 2015 12:51am

It was helpful but wasn't the answer. I don't have a "mark as helpful" option on this thread for some reason but I do on others.
August 12th, 2015 12:54am

Is there any logging that can be enabled that shows what client and/or computer deleted the email?
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August 18th, 2015 1:16am

Hi,

I'm not aware of such a method, but to confirm this, you can post the question in Office 365 Community, asking if there is such a function on Office 365 Admin side:

https://community.office365.com/en-us/f/

Regards,

Melon Chen

Forum Support

August 19th, 2015 2:40am

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