Outlook - draft of someone elses unsent message

• Question

• 

  

  0

  Sign in to vote

  Perhaps there is an explanation for this, but I thought it was very strange and in all my years have never seen it before, so just wondering if anyone can think HOW this could happen: I was using my workstation, a colleague sat next to me sent an email to someone else, on which I was CC'd about 20 mins prior to my opening it. As the message opened I saw the body of the message and it read something like "I have done x for you and also I have done y and z for you, please let me know how it is working", then I clicked off the message and within a few seconds I clicked back to read it again and what I saw was a completely different message, still saying the same thing, but with a whole section I had read missing, so now it read more like "I have done x for you, please let me know how it is working". I thought that was weird, so asked if my colleague had Recalled the message and he said he had not, but had only saved it as a draft and then sent it. I repeated what I had read to him and he confirmed that he had written that and then changed it, but had definitely not sent it. There is definitely something going on there if I can read a draft of someone elses message which was never sent. Internal Exchange servers, I am on o2016 and he is on o2007. Any ideas? Its a bit scary/suspicious that Outlook would incorrectly commit a message draft as though it were sent and then update it post sendmail to correct the error.

  Wednesday, May 31, 2017 1:48 PM