Are you sure your users are not running a POP3/IMAP client at home and have it set to download the messages to the client J, not the first time I have seen this happen. What is the reason for doing an hourly incremental backup? Mark Fugatt Dedicated Supportability Engineer (Exchange) Microsoft Limited Desk: +44 (0)118 909 5630 Mobile: +44 (0)7966 858108 MSN IM: markfu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Blog: http://blogs.technet.com/mfugatt Dedicated to proactively supporting Microsoft's enterprise Customers If you have any feedback about my work, please let either myself or my manager Andy Gitsham know at andygi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:andygi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=Feedback%20on%20Mark%20Fugatt%20(Ex change%20DSE)> or telephone +44 118 909 3233 ________________________________ From: exchangelist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:exchangelist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Rich Gallo Sent: 18 April 2006 16:26 To: exchangelist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [ExchangeList] Weird Inbox Issue Sensitivity: Private Hey Everyone, I have kind of a strange problem. There are these two mailboxes in my Exchange Server 2003 organization that keep mysteriously losing all items in their Inbox. All other folders underneath are seemingly unaffected. Thank God I had a backup of them from last night but I can't see anything on the server end that could cause this. There are no update policies to clean out mailboxes, there is no archiving happening at the users end. The ONLY coincidence I am seeing is that I do hourly Incremental backups of the database and it happened right after a backup. Is it possible that messages can get deleted after the online backup taking place (with log files being deleted and all???) ANY help at all you guys could give would be wonderful! Thanks I advance! Rich