I have a PC running W7, using Earthlink as ISP, and Outlook 2003 as my main email software. I manually download email from my ISP as a daily routine using "Send/Receive". Outlook 2003 has a 2GB limit on storage, as I understand it.
I am a lazybones about keeping my Inbox cleared out, and like to have it more as a filing cabinet. This leads to occasional instances of "The message store has reached its maximum size..." message, and the circumstance usually involves just having clicked Send/Receive button, watching the download status window go through its display, and realizing that no new email has shown up in my Inbox. It has apparently just downloaded into oblivion. My ISP has no provision for keeping a copy of received email, and that would end up being a maintenance nightmare in any case.
My question is this: Does the email that is downloaded to a full Outlook mailbox go someplace else, or is it just vaporized? I have done a bit of looking for some temp/cache folder, but haven't lucked upon anything that looks right.
Please, no obligatory lectures about .pst folders and keeping the items in archive storage; I'm doing a lot of that; it's just laziness on my part, and hoarding behavior, in the face of too many other things to do.