completely gone. Trash folder only has a week's worth of deleted e-mails. Using search does not retrieve the older-than-30-day e-mails received either.

While you did answer the second, less important question . . . . . the more important and as yet UNANSWERED question is why are e-mails in my in-box automatically disappearing after 30 days? This straightforward problem is the core issue for everyone

I too am having this problem. In trying to fix the problem myself, I see that when I right click the Inbox option, that one of the 4 options that then pops up is "Empty Inbox". I am right now reluctant to click this "Empty Inbox" option fearing that