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Possible security breach: Question about where emails are being being read from

We have a senior management end user that has reported his emails have all of the sudden been marked as unread from Outlook.  It has happened a handful of times and on different days and different times.  I want to be able to make sure no one is reading his emails.

We are running an Exchange 2003 environment.

The first thing I had him do was reset his password in case someone was logging into OWA and viewing the emails from there.  I also enabled logging on the IIS server(it was disabled before).  I then attempted a successful login to OWA.  When I checked the logs I was able to see the successful login.  I then attempted an unsuccessful login to OWA.  However, when I checked the logs I never saw any new log entries pointing to an unsuccessful login attempt.  How could I track unsuccessful authentication attempts in OWA?  Any suggestions?  

Besides from OWA the other way someone could be reading the end users email is via a mapi connection.  Is it possible to see if someone is accessing his email from another computer in our environment via a mapi connection?

I know this could also be an buggy issue with Outlook as well.  But this is a senior employee and I want to take all of the necessary security precautions so I can ensure him that his email is not being read by someone else.

Thank you for your help!
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Thanks for everyone's help.

No delegates are assigned.  I also checked permissions they seemed okay.

I enabled auditing for both successful and failed logins.  This is very helpful and will allow me to view failed logins from OWA.

I can view successful connections to OWA via the IIS logs.

Using EXMOn is also very helpful.  It allows me to see mapi connections per user and their ip addresses.

Thanks!