Last night (1/29/06) OE asked if I wanted to compact my messages to free up
space. I allowed it to and it took 1-1.5 hours. Today, every message in my
Inbox from 12/13/05 - 1/29/06 is gone, deleted, not be found anywhere on my
computer. Microsoft Service tells me that OE's compaction process randomly
deletes emails.

This is not compaction, this is deletion. Any idiot can delete their own
emails when they choose to do so. Microsoft tells me that they know that the
random deletion is a problem and that the research department has been
working on this for some time. This is totally unbelievable. I can't believe
that Microsoft hasn't issed a service pack to disable the compaction process
if what happened to me is even possible they KNEW it.

The customer help department called it random deletion. In reality it was
every email that I had received (and not previously deleted) for the past 1.5
months.