>He says he specifically remembers many times even in the last few days when
>he would login via webMail and find zero messages in the box.
>
>Well, today, he said he goes to pull down his e-mail and he pulled down
>messages dating back to January of 2000; thousands of e-mails from the past
>year and a half.
That's just not possible. <G>
>I can't explain it, he can't explain it. It's completely mind boggling.
>Does Imail somehow keep a cache/file, something of messages even if they
>have been deleted from the mailbox?
No. I can only see three possible explanations (although there could be
more): [1] The E-mails really came from his E-mail client, not the server,
or [2] The messages were never being deleted from IMail, or [3] You
reinstalled from a backup, that had the old mails on it.
Once an E-mail is deleted, it is gone. Unless you have it forwarded to
another account, it is gone for good on the server. There's no way to
retrieve it (without using undelete tools and such, but that would have to
be done very quickly, and likely wouldn't work).
What you can do is check the IMail logs. That will show you how many
E-mails he downloaded. If you see a POP3 entry "logoff for myboss R:1243
D:0 P:0, that would mean he did indeed download 1,243 E-mails, and that
they had been saved on the server somehow. If you don't see any large "R:"
numbers in the logs, then either his E-mail client went FUBAR, or someone
is having a good time making up a tall tale.
-Scott
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