Basically, it deletes those emails which are sent to you regularly, but you are not its active participant (like spam emails). This feature will stop you from receiving the emails from a particular conversation you are a part of. Ignore conversation is another important feature that Outlook possesses. Moving emails from one folder to another may give you the perception that they are deleted. Move conversation feature in Outlook doesn’t delete the emails but moves emails from one folder to a specified one. So, there is a fair possibility that at some point in time, you applied some wrong rules that are leading to this scenario right now. Outlook might be auto-deleting your emails, but remember, it is only an app that follows the commands given by its users. Before moving for the solution, let’s first discuss those cases.

Although there is no fixed reason for this, there can be a lot of situations in which Outlook might be behaving like this. To answer the question asked above by the user, ‘Yes,’ Outlook can auto-delete emails or move to some other folder.

Just like the above user, a few of us are not aware of certain features that Outlook possesses and one of which is the auto-delete feature.

Can anyone tell me why it is happening and what should I do to fix it?” “Is it possible that Outlook is deleting my emails all by itself, without any command from my side? If yes, then I am facing the same issue, I have observed that a few of my emails are deleted from my account without any permission from my side.

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