Re: user account deleted by mistake-email missing!

From: Pegasus \(MVP\) (I.can_at_fly.com)
Date: 10/15/04 

Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 12:54:04 +1000

"robbie" <robbie@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:790BF963-FE64-4364-97F3-0F95814D2D57@microsoft.com...
> Hi folks,
>
> Background:
> Working in a small domain where users collect their mail through POP3
> independantly using MS Outlook. There was a problem logging in one client
> (logon was too slow). I checked the DNS entries and verified that they
were
> ok. but I still couldn't get it to logon normally. It's an XP Client on a
> windows 200 domain. So, I then tried the following: Deleted the user
account
> from the server and recreating the same user account again exactly. This
> solved the slow logon process but It has messed up the emails on that PC.
> They have all dissappeared! Everything else seems fine but the email have
> gone. I would assume that the emails were stored on the local PC but there
> is no sign of them anywhere! Please let me know where, or if, they might
be
> recovered from (other than a backup). Any help is much obliged.
>
> May thanks, Rob
>

Look for .PST files on the hard disk. If you cannot find any then
you may have to treat this incident as a rude reminder that ***all***
important files must be backed up, including the files that the user's
EMail client generates.

If you use Outlook Express, look for .DBX files.

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