topic Re: Recover deleted emails in Email

Recover deleted emails

JW8 — Thu, 01 Jun 2023 19:21:33 GMT

Is it possible to recover deleted emails older that 1 week? I need an email I would have received and deleted about a month ago. Thank you

Re: Recover deleted emails

jab1 — Thu, 01 Jun 2023 19:30:00 GMT

@JW8 In a word, no.Once you delete it, it is removed from the server.

Re: Recover deleted emails

Townman — Thu, 01 Jun 2023 22:35:08 GMT

To be pedantic, under standard IMAP client operations, when an email is deleted, it is moved to the deleted items folder - it is not removed from the server immediately.

It then sits there until the deleted items folder is emptied by...

User action
Email client settings (such as empty the deleted items folder on exit)
Plusnet server house keeping, which every week (IIRC Monday evenings for Plusnet vISP email) removes items deleted 8 or more days previously

The latter gives a maximum of 14 days to back out a delete.

Re: Recover deleted emails

jab1 — Fri, 02 Jun 2023 06:03:23 GMT

Cheers, @Townman