Hello, Got a problem of some urgency! I'm hoping some of you running networks will have seen this or know where to look. I'm running outlook 2003 and it is connecting to a gmail account over encrypted imap4. I'm not sure if the problem is gmail's imap4 or outlook 2003, though from what i just saw i'm leaning more toward the outlook. I googled this last time this issue occurred and didn't come up with anything, i'm hoping for some assistance. A while back i was reading email and then without doing anything an outlook dialog came up stating it was deleting messages in my inbox. I want to stress i did not tell it to do so nor did i at that time nor do i now have a virus. I stopped it then. Now about five minutes ago i was going through email, and i selected several messages, right clicked and chose delete. Well, it did, but also removed everything else from the inbox, I went from 400 something msgs to a clean inbox, and while some might say this is great i am not a happy camper on this! I need to know if there's anything on this autopurge thing. If i check in the all-mail archive i've got the messages there, so i haven't lost anything just the headers are gone, but the all-messages archive has like 54000 plus msgs in it and searching it is a pain. I've checked gmail's web interface and like the outlook inbox it is also empty, but the all-mail is still have messages. Any help appreciated. I am hoping i will not have to look for a new mail program. If i do, as this problem is the second time i've seen it any recommendations? I need something that's screen reader friendly, will do what outlook 2003 does but without the issue. Thanks a lot. Dave.