Before you attempt to undelete email you must figure out which type of email service you have and where the email messages were last seen. The two basic email service types are server and local. Server style email is that which is most familiar to all of us. These are the free email accounts we receive when signing up with popular web portals such yahoo, AOL, and Hotmail. Local email service is created by software downloaded onto your computer’s hard drive. This software contacts the Internet to send and receive your messages across it.
To undelete mail on each of these is a very different process. Let us examine the process to undelete emails when we’re using a web based server style email portal. It is very easy to delete an email received on a web portal that somehow managed to hide itself in the middle of a dozen spam junk emails. Everyone has done this from time to time. To recover that one email you actually wanted but accidentally deleted, look in your email server’s trash bin. All recently deleted web based emails remain in that for at least 48 hours.
To undelete emails sent, received, or stored using popular email clients such as Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Express. You will need an email and general data recovery tool such as File Finder. File Finder will quickly scan your entire computer hard drive searching for and finding any recently deleted local to your computer emails.
