we have an issue with Outlook 2013 (Exchange 2010 profile). An user has replied to an email (external address) assuming his email will go to sent items, and of course will be delivered to the recipient. After some time the recipient asked for a feedback. Than my user figured out that his reply was vanished. That email cannot be found any more, server logs do not show any send activity for this user. But the email he replied on, shows that "you have answered this email ..." flag + message. It was not just this one email, during the whole day the user has sent several mails, but none was really sent out and is not in his Outlook sent items, drafts, outbox, etc. We have searched over all folders for such emails, double-checked with OWA, no success.
On one hand such a behaviour is frustrating, but more critical is the fact that these emails simply disappear, it may happen that someone puts quite a lot of effort into composing such an email and than it's gone. I have to admit that the user has had a crash of Outlook early this morning. However he continued to receive emails, thought everything is fine, since sending emails apparently did not cause any issue, but finally emails just disappeared. On the other hand, after sending an email once via OWA regular send emails from within Outlook also started working again.
Any idea where these emails can be?
kind regards,
Dieter Tontsch
mobileX AG