why do emails disappear entirely while in outlook

If you are using an Exchange mailbox, make sure you don’t have the default delivery location set to a pst-file. (and optionally press the Arrange By button to set it to Date)ĭefault delivery location for an Exchange mailbox is set to a pst-file (and optionally set the Arrangement to Date) If you are in the Inbox folder already, make sure your view is not set to “Unread Messages in This Folder” or that you have a filter applied to your view. If you are in an (Unread Mail) Search Folder, switch back to the normal Inbox folder and see if your items are there. If you are looking at your mailbox via a filtered view or via the Unread Mail Search Folder and also have the option configured to automatically mark emails as read after x seconds, then it could happen that the messages automatically disappear when they get marked as read. If they are actually being deleted, see the following instructions instead New messages immediately get deleted upon arrival. There are 3 common scenarios in which this could happen. How can I get this to stop and get to those messages?

I don't have any rules configured that would move or delete these items. I see new emails coming in but after some seconds they automatically remove themselves from my mailbox.

Why do emails disappear entirely while in outlook