OT: retreive deleted e-mails

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OT: retreive deleted e-mails

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I need to retrieve some old e-mail messages that were deleted from the inbox. Are these messages still on my hard drive? Is there a program that can retrieve them or are they lost.
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RE: OT: retreive deleted e-mails

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If you use gmail, files that are deleted are held for 30 days or so in your "Trash" before being permanently deleted. This has saved my hide more than once when I deleted a selected file without realizing that other fiels were also selected.

I assume Yahoo and other services do something similar.

If you have a POP account of some kind, the email is downloaded to your hard disk so a file recovery program might find them. I'm not an expert on that anymore.
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