I've been using Outlook for Mac 2011 for about six months, on a work computer. Apart from an Office 365 mail I've also used it for two private IMAP accounts.

Recently I've found that whenever Outlook fetches mail from one of the IMAP accounts, it also deletes them on the server leaving them unavailable for other applications. This is not the IMAP default and as I understand, should also not be the Outlook default. I only realized this was happening today, but it does explain what I thought was strange behaviour with missing e-mails when using my mobile, so it has probably been going on for about a week.

The other IMAP account, which is a Google account, is not affected.

My Outlook is version 14.4.4. I updated to this version sometime in the past weeks, but I can't say for sure if the time coincided with the start of this issue.

I would like, in order of priority:

1. My e-mail to be returned to the IMAP server. This is critical.

2. Outlook to stop deleting e-mails.

I'd be most grateful for any assistance with what I consider a very serious issue.

Best regards,

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