They have the preview pane turned on and left their clients up. Mail comes in, preview pane "reads" it, it times out (default is five seconds I believe) and the message is marked read.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Aristotle Zoulas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 9:16 AM Subject: unread mail marked read by itself ????? > Is this possible? Several members of the firm that I am consulting for claim > to have had this problem. They came in one morning several days ago and to > their surprise, mail that they NEVER read was marked as being read by > outlook. The firm is running Exchange 5.5 with outlook as a client . > > Some possibilities are: 1.)something happened to the internal database that > caused this error.2.) Someone within the company tampered with the mail and > read their mail, thus marking it as read. 3.) Perhaps their backup system > had something to do with it. They are doing brick level back ups using > Veritas 8.5. > > > #3 does not seem like an option since only two people, albeit high level IT > people, were affected. This also NEVER happened before. > > > Any help would be appreciated. > > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
