Hi All, Today I deleted accidently an email I later realised I needed. I didn't worry too much as usually I could go into the deleted items folder of outlook 2003 and retrieve it but today when I went into my deleted items folder it was empty. I didn't think too much of it at the time so then tried to remove some items from other folders into the deleted items folder and again checked it only to find it was still empty. I don't have the option to delete items checked in the "other tab" of email options so what could it be?. Any ideas would be appreciated. Many thanks, Paul. ************************************************************* You are receiving this mail because you subscribed to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or MicrosoftOffice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To send mail to the group, simply address it to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To Unsubscribe from this group, send an email to mso-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe" (without the quotes) in the subject line. Or, visit the group's homepage and use the dropdown menu. This will also allow you to change your email settings to digest or vacation (no mail). //www.freelists.org/webpage/mso To be able to use the files section for sharing files with the group, send a request to mso-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and you will be sent an invitation with instructions. Once you are a member of the files group, you can go here to upload/download files: http://www.smartgroups.com/vault/msofiles *************************************************************