Recovering deleted emails.

[vex]

I need to recover an email I think I must have deleted.

Email will be deleted from both an outlook machine and a thunderbird machine.

Any ideas,

Can it be done easily?

[Plotloss]

IMAP?

If so, and you've purged it, probably not.

If its a local mail then possibly.

[vex]

What is IMAP? Matt.

If it is gone, then it is gone and I can accept that.

[Plotloss]

IMAP is where all the emails stay on the server and you access them in a client/server type fashion meaning you dont need to keep a dekstop/laptop/palmtop in sync, you just get the one version of the truth from the server.

With POP emails they are transferred to the client that recieves them first and deleted from the server (though there is a flag to override this)

[jeremyc]

Plotloss said:

With POP emails they are transferred to the client that recieves them first and deleted from the server (though there is a flag to override this)

If you are collecting them from a POP server it may be possible that a copy has been kept there (the time for which they are kept is configurable).

How long ago was the email sent/received?

[vex]

R,

Unfortunately it is a POP account and back at in the last week of december / first week of the new year.

I guess it is gone, I was even cheaky and deleted it from the sent directory of the outlook machine.

[JamieBeeston]

Ask your host, they may have a backup of the mail depending on how long it was left on the server.

J