I have 1 user that is getting email moved from his inbox to his deleted items folder automatically. I have checked the AutomateProcessing setting and that does not seem to be the problem. He does have a blackberry through thier web service that syncs email but the settings there are to leave messages alone and has work for over a year now. This just started happening without any known changes being made. He is the only user that is having this issue. Messages will stay in the inbox for a few minutes to a few hours before they are moved. It does not seem to coincide with blackberry syncing or any other owa\outlook mailbox access. I checked the exchange message tracking logs but that only tracks a message once it gets to the mailbox. Is there a feature that can log when a message is moved from one folder to another and what\who made the request to do so?Just me and me alone keeps this ship afloat!

A single user is afflicted with autodeleting emails. Email will be delivered to his inbox properly. If he leaves the message in the inbox it will automatically go to deleted items over a period of time. It could be 15 minutes or several hours. He makes no action to have this happen. It only happens n recent email messages. It started happening last week. Any email message in the inbox older that several days before that time still remains in the inbox normally. Any new email since is autodeleted. I have disabled his blackberry to eliminate that possibility. There are no rules enabled in his profile. I have deleted his profile and created a new one. We have left Outlook closed and used OWA and it still happens. All users are in the same group with no special policies on the exchange server. Any troubleshooting suggestions? JoelJust me and me alone keeps this ship afloat!

Hi,Ask user to close outlook completelyand configure outlook on the different machien to check if the same in different computerClose outlook and ask user to access mail form OWA and check if same happens in OWARegards,Krishnahttp://smtpport25.wordpress.com

I did have him close outlook and operate from owa for a day and it still happened. I am sure outlook was not running and exited properly on the machine so there would be no outlook behind the scenes action. I have disabled his blackberry from accessing email completely and it still happens. JoelJust me and me alone keeps this ship afloat!

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HI,When you go to Advance settings in your Account of outlook, there is a option "Remove from server after X days "If this option is select outlook will automtically delete the copies of emails that are that many days old.RegardsChinthaka

I have checked the AutomateProcessing setting and that does not seem to be the problem. So what is this parameter currently set to?Neil Hobson, Exchange MVP

This sounds like a POP3 account setting. I don't see any setting like this in our Outlook 2007/Exchange 2007 accounts. Also there are older email messages still in the inbox uneffected. The only emails being moved are recent emails. Anything older than about 5 days is left alone. JoelJust me and me alone keeps this ship afloat!

Had a single instance of anIPM.Rule.Messagein the users inbox. (tried it on my mailbox first and had the same single instance.) Is there a default ipm.rule.message that should exist in the inbox? Should I not have deleted it? I will have to sit on this and see if it cures the problem. I don't think this is it because the user has never created a rule in his life. JoelJust me and me alone keeps this ship afloat!

Check info: 1. Could you tell the version of exchange and outlook? Currently, I assume its exchange 2003 2. Is there any other user got same issue? 3. Whats the setting of AutomateProcessing? 4. Quote: user has never created a rule in his life Does it mean there are no rules in Rules and Alerts option in the Tools menu? 5. Please move the mailbox of the problematic user to another mailbox store, which can fix the corruption of mailbox, including corrupted rules (If has)

I have checked the AutomateProcessing setting and that does not seem to be the problem. So what is this parameter currently set to? It was set to AutoUpdate. I have now set it to None.Just me and me alone keeps this ship afloat!

Check info: 1. Could you tell the version of exchange and outlook? Currently, I assume its exchange 2003Exchange 2007 2. Is there any other user got same issue?No other users seem to be effected. 3. Whats the setting of AutomateProcessing?Currently set to "None" 4. Quote: user has never created a rule in his life Does it mean there are no rules in Rules and Alerts option in the Tools menu?Yes 5. Please move the mailbox of the problematic user to another mailbox store, which can fix the corruption of mailbox, including corrupted rules (If has)Single Exchange server installation. Do not have another mailbox store. Just me and me alone keeps this ship afloat!

Please use the cmdlet below to compare the output of problematic user and fine user: Get-User Get-Mailbox Notes: Especially, check the value of RecipientTypeDetails in the output of Get-Mailbox, see if it shows RoomMailbox for problematic user

Thanks for all the suggestions. Last Saturday I deleted the user mailbox, associated the dead mailbox with another account then recreated the user account and mailbox. This seems to have resolved the issue. Didn't want to just rip things out but it had been over a week that the company president was going to his deleted items to read email.Unfortunately I did not get to the bottom of the issue but it is now resolved.Thanks,JoelJust me and me alone keeps this ship afloat!

Please use the cmdlet below to compare the output of problematic user and fine user: Get-User Get-Mailbox Notes: Especially, check the value of RecipientTypeDetails in the output of Get-Mailbox, see if it shows RoomMailbox for problematic user Where are these commands executed from?

I was experiencing the same problem and it turned out being that the "AutomateProcessing" flag got set to "AutoAccept" instead of "AutoUpdate". I am guessing that this had something to do with my Blackberry device sync as I was working with that over the weekend and thats when the problem occurred.To fix it, I did the following (using the Exchange Server 2007 Management Shell):1. Verify that the flag was set incorrectly: get-mailboxcalendarsettings username | fl The first line of the output showed that the AutomateProcessing was set to AutoAccept, which is great if you are a conference room, but not so good if you are a regular user2. I changed the setting to AutoUpdate set-mailboxcalendarsettings username -automateprocessing: AutoupdateMy emails are now staying in my Inbox where they belong. I also checked some of our other users and they are set up the same way.

I was experiencing the same problem and it turned out being that the "AutomateProcessing" flag got set to "AutoAccept" instead of "AutoUpdate". I am guessing that this had something to do with my Blackberry device sync as I was working with that over the weekend and thats when the problem occurred.To fix it, I did the following (using the Exchange Server 2007 Management Shell):1. Verify that the flag was set incorrectly: get-mailboxcalendarsettings username | fl The first line of the output showed that the AutomateProcessing was set to AutoAccept, which is great if you are a conference room, but not so good if you are a regular user2. I changed the setting to AutoUpdate set-mailboxcalendarsettings username -automateprocessing: AutoupdateMy emails are now staying in my Inbox where they belong. I also checked some of our other users and they are set up the same way. This fixed it for us aswell

I am having this same problem. As far as your questions above: 1. We are using Exchange 2003 SP2 and Outlook 2003 SP3. 2. No other user having this problem. 3. Can't get this setting. 4. This user had no IPM.Rule.Message in the users box. 5. Single server store. I have ckecked for deleted or stale rules...None. No current rules. I also deleted the users mailbox on the server, created a new profile and it seemed to work for a couple days, but now we are back to deleting messages from the last 3 to 4 days. Something new today is that it is not ALL messages. usually 2 or 3 are left in the inbox, from both internal and external senders. I am currently forwarding all messages to a temp mailbox for the user to have access to through OWA and the messages are staying in the temp box. I have seen the notes regarding the Automate Processing, but from what I have read that is primarily in 2007. Am I correct in that? Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

I have a user that is experiencing the same issue and we have Outlook 2003. What is the fix for that? Also, the settings changes above... where do those take place? The Blamckberry? The Blackberry Server? Outlook? Outlook Server? Thanks in advance. Drew

Drew, As you may see in the thread I deleted the user mailbox and recreated it. That solved the problem. I did this from the Exchange 2007 server. JoelJust me and me alone keeps this ship afloat!

I have been having the same issue with a single user. Again it happens to the MD of the company! The automateprocessing is set correctly, there are no rules etc. There are external devices but with these off it still happens. Another outlook profile or different machine make no difference. . The server was a migration from sbs 2003 to sbs 2008, but the mailbox has been happy for about 18 months. I am going to try and remove and replace the mailbox later this week.

Even recreating the mailbox did not make a change. It worked for about 4 days and then overnight it moved all mails back to a certain date into his deleted items. There are several devices connecting to the mailbox but these have been quite happy working for months. Is there a way to show movement of mails once they are in a mailbox?

I have just had the same problem. With outlook 2003 it sends your emails to the personal inbox folder and then deletes them off the OWA server. The trick is to change the folder from the personal inbox folder to the mailbox inbox folder. Tools>email accounts>change and then under the tab "deliver new email to ...." make sure that you change it to "mailbox - yourname" This will keep the emails on the OWA server.