Hello,

I had a weird experience that maybe someone can explain. Before I left
for work two days ago I read my email and closed Outlook (I know I
did--I double checked). At work later on I checked my email via webmail
and the inbox was empty-- unusual. When I went home I opened Outlook
and found many unread emails that had come in during the day, arriving
well after I had closed Outlook and left home. How is it possible that
Outlook can download mail even if it is closed?

I was so sure that it must have been an error on my part that today I
triple checked that I'd definitely closed Outlook, and when I got home
the same thing happened. I even asked my husband, an I.T. person, to
witness that Outlook was indeed closed and not running in the
background somehow. He didn't understand it either, though he said
maybe it had something to do with MAPI (?) but couldn't say how or
what. This is a new phenomenon--three days ago I was able to read email
fine via webmail when Outlook was closed at home.

I have since changed my account settings to leave mail on the server,
but I am still curious about how this could happen in the first place.
Any ideas, anyone?

Liz