Missing my spam folder - HELP!!!

G

Guest

I accidentally deleted my SPAM folder. I have alot of mail that
automatically goes into my spam folder & is actually business related. Now
when I do a "send/receive" I see emails flash real quick in my inbox then
disappears into the big black hole. Where are all my emails going? I need
to get my spam folder back! I am missing important business contacts.
 
M

Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Outlook does not have a Spam folder, it has a Junk Mail folder. Are you using a third party solution? IF yes, then consult their help files for how to restore the Spam folder.

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, missingspamfolder27 asked:

| I accidentally deleted my SPAM folder. I have alot of mail that
| automatically goes into my spam folder & is actually business
| related. Now when I do a "send/receive" I see emails flash real
| quick in my inbox then disappears into the big black hole. Where are
| all my emails going? I need to get my spam folder back! I am
| missing important business contacts.
 
G

Guest

No it is not the junk mail folder, I created my own SPAM folder. Then when I
was going through to sift out the spam and the actual business emails, I
deleted the whole folder not just the email.
 
G

Guest

Yes, I looked under deleted AND in my recycle bin in my system. The spam
folder is one I created myself. I usually get about 100 emails a day (mostly
spam), now I am getting 2-3. I do not know where all my emails are going. I
knwo I am missing business - very frustrating. Help! PLease!
 
V

VanguardLH

in message
No it is not the junk mail folder, I created my own SPAM folder.
Then when I
was going through to sift out the spam and the actual business
emails, I
deleted the whole folder not just the email.


Okay, so you created the Spam folder. Just what is this "automatic"
operation that moves e-mails into the folder named Spam? A rule? If
you are using a rule then it probably has an object pointer to a
folder but that folder doesn't exist anymore. If you create a new
folder named Spam, it won't have the same pointer value as the
original folder named Spam. Create the new folder and then edit the
rule to change the destination folder - and pick your newly created
Spam folder. You see the names of the folder. Outlook uses pointers
to structures in its database. You need to get them in sync in your
rule.

When you deleted the original Spam folder, just HOW did you delete it?
Did you hit the Del key or right-click on the folder and select
Delete? If so, the original Spam folder is under the Deleted Items
folder. You could drag it back out of there and hope the pointer to
it is still valid to match up with the one in the rule. If you
selected the Spam folder and hit Shift+Del or you deleted it out of
the Deleted Items folder then it got permanently deleted.

If you dragged the Spam folder in an attempt to move it to, say, the
Deleted Items folder or under some other folder to make the Spam
folder a subfolder of another one, it is possible you didn't release
the mouse button when the Spam folder was at a valid spot in the tree.
Possibly you dragged the Spam folder to the root node. Since you did
not create the folder using normal means in Outlook, the dragged
folder is hidden under the root node so you cannot see it but the rule
can. So the rule goes on merrily moving e-mails into the Spam folder
which is now hidden. Create a new Spam folder and update the rule to
select that new one. To get rid of the hidden folder means having to
use a utility like Outlookspy but it can be daunting to figure out how
to use it. I personally don't know of how to use the functions within
Outlook itself to get at folders accidentally hidden under the root
node. The problem stems from [special] folders that are not under the
IPM subtree (top of information store) node.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb508857.aspx

The programming folks over at http://www.outlookcode.com would
probably understand all this stuff as it has to do with how Outlook
structures its message store. Good luck trying to use Outlookspy to
get rid of the hidden folder (by the way, I haven't done this and am
assuming that Outlookspy lets you dig far into into the message store
to fix this problem).
 
M

Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Then why not create a new Spam folder?

--
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, missingspamfolder27 asked:

| Yes, I looked under deleted AND in my recycle bin in my system. The
| spam folder is one I created myself. I usually get about 100 emails
| a day (mostly spam), now I am getting 2-3. I do not know where all
| my emails are going. I knwo I am missing business - very
| frustrating. Help! PLease!
|
| "Diane Poremsky" wrote:
|
|| did you look in the deleted items folder?
||
|| --
|| Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
|| Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
|| Need Help with Common Tasks? http://www.outlook-tips.net/beginner/
|| Outlook 2007: http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/ol2007/
||
|| Outlook Tips by email:
|| (e-mail address removed)
||
||
||
|| Subscribe to Exchange Messaging Outlook newsletter:
|| (e-mail address removed)
||
||
|| "missingspamfolder27"
||
||| I accidentally deleted my SPAM folder. I have alot of mail that
||| automatically goes into my spam folder & is actually business
||| related. Now
||| when I do a "send/receive" I see emails flash real quick in my
||| inbox then disappears into the big black hole. Where are all my
||| emails going? I need
||| to get my spam folder back! I am missing important business
||| contacts.
 
D

Diane Poremsky

if you know one of the words in the messages, try using advanced find.
Unless you deleted the folder while holding the Shift key or deleted it then
closed outlook and are using the feature to empty deleted on close, its
there somewhere.

For now, go to the rule and and remove the check or create a new folder to
use.
 
G

Goobus

Sorry to hear that. Hope you find it. Did you look under the couch?
Did you know you hijacked a thread from 2008? You EggHeaders deserve to
lose your folder.

missing my spam folder
I accidentally deleted my SPAM folder. I have alot of mail that
automatically goes into my spam folder& is actually business related. Now
when I do a "send/receive" I see emails flash real quick in my inbox then
disappears into the big black hole. Where are all my emails going? I need
to get my spam folder back! I am missing important business contacts.
On Wednesday, January 02, 2008 6:17 PM Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook] wrote:
Outlook does not have a Spam folder, it has a Junk Mail folder. Are you =
using a third party solution? IF yes, then consult their help files for =
how to restore the Spam folder.

--=81
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading. =20

After furious head scratching, missingspamfolder27 asked:
On Wednesday, January 02, 2008 7:47 PM Diane Poremsky wrote:
did you look in the deleted items folder?

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Need Help with Common Tasks? http://www.outlook-tips.net/beginner/
Outlook 2007: http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/ol2007/

Outlook Tips by email:
(e-mail address removed)


Outlook& Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com
Subscribe to Exchange Messaging Outlook newsletter:
(e-mail address removed)


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On Wednesday, January 02, 2008 8:59 PM missingspamfolder2 wrote:
No it is not the junk mail folder, I created my own SPAM folder. Then when I
was going through to sift out the spam and the actual business emails, I
deleted the whole folder not just the email.

"Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
On Wednesday, January 02, 2008 9:03 PM missingspamfolder2 wrote:
Yes, I looked under deleted AND in my recycle bin in my system. The spam
folder is one I created myself. I usually get about 100 emails a day (mostly
spam), now I am getting 2-3. I do not know where all my emails are going. I
knwo I am missing business - very frustrating. Help! PLease!

"Diane Poremsky" wrote:
On Wednesday, January 02, 2008 10:10 PM VanguardLH wrote:
in message


Okay, so you created the Spam folder. Just what is this "automatic"
operation that moves e-mails into the folder named Spam? A rule? If
you are using a rule then it probably has an object pointer to a
folder but that folder doesn't exist anymore. If you create a new
folder named Spam, it won't have the same pointer value as the
original folder named Spam. Create the new folder and then edit the
rule to change the destination folder - and pick your newly created
Spam folder. You see the names of the folder. Outlook uses pointers
to structures in its database. You need to get them in sync in your
rule.

When you deleted the original Spam folder, just HOW did you delete it?
Did you hit the Del key or right-click on the folder and select
Delete? If so, the original Spam folder is under the Deleted Items
folder. You could drag it back out of there and hope the pointer to
it is still valid to match up with the one in the rule. If you
selected the Spam folder and hit Shift+Del or you deleted it out of
the Deleted Items folder then it got permanently deleted.

If you dragged the Spam folder in an attempt to move it to, say, the
Deleted Items folder or under some other folder to make the Spam
folder a subfolder of another one, it is possible you didn't release
the mouse button when the Spam folder was at a valid spot in the tree.
Possibly you dragged the Spam folder to the root node. Since you did
not create the folder using normal means in Outlook, the dragged
folder is hidden under the root node so you cannot see it but the rule
can. So the rule goes on merrily moving e-mails into the Spam folder
which is now hidden. Create a new Spam folder and update the rule to
select that new one. To get rid of the hidden folder means having to
use a utility like Outlookspy but it can be daunting to figure out how
to use it. I personally don't know of how to use the functions within
Outlook itself to get at folders accidentally hidden under the root
node. The problem stems from [special] folders that are not under the
IPM subtree (top of information store) node.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb508857.aspx

The programming folks over at http://www.outlookcode.com would
probably understand all this stuff as it has to do with how Outlook
structures its message store. Good luck trying to use Outlookspy to
get rid of the hidden folder (by the way, I haven't done this and am
assuming that Outlookspy lets you dig far into into the message store
to fix this problem).
On Wednesday, January 02, 2008 10:14 PM Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook] wrote:
Then why not create a new Spam folder?

--=81
Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading. =20

After furious head scratching, missingspamfolder27 asked:
On Wednesday, January 02, 2008 11:30 PM Diane Poremsky wrote:
if you know one of the words in the messages, try using advanced find.
Unless you deleted the folder while holding the Shift key or deleted it then
closed outlook and are using the feature to empty deleted on close, its
there somewhere.

For now, go to the rule and and remove the check or create a new folder to
use.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]
Author, Teach Yourself Outlook 2003 in 24 Hours
Need Help with Common Tasks? http://www.outlook-tips.net/beginner/
Outlook 2007: http://www.slipstick.com/outlook/ol2007/

Outlook Tips by email:
(e-mail address removed)


Outlook& Exchange Solutions Center: http://www.slipstick.com
Subscribe to Exchange Messaging Outlook newsletter:
(e-mail address removed)


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