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paleblue

12 years ago

hi......is there a way to recapture deleted junk mail? tia

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azinoh
12 years ago
If you deleted mail from your INBOX, it probably went into another folder (TRASH...RECENTLY DELETED (the names vary)). If you haven't already deleted mail from that folder, it's probably still there. If you have "emptied the trash", it will be difficult to recover anything. All of this assumes you are using an email client (Live Mail...Thunderbird...or other since you didn't say). OTOH, if you are using webmail and have deleted the messages from their server then I think they are gone for good. I suppose you could try contacting the webmaster to see if any help is available but it's a longshot and I wouldn't expect them to do anything for your for free.
not2bright
12 years ago
Among free services I think Outlook.com has a setting that allows the user some time to recover messages deleted from the Trash folder. But if this setting had not already been enabled, then the mail is likely gone for good. :-(

But if you find the setting already enabled, you should be able to recover some email. Perhaps up to a week?

With other services (Gmail, AOL, Yahoo, etc.) you're likely out of luck. You can always contact support of those services or post a question on the relevant user forum. :-)

Just found the following link (if you have Outlook.com):

Here is a link that might be useful: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/outlook/recover-deleted-messages

This post was edited by not2bright on Fri, Dec 6, 13 at 8:08
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