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Electronic Mail - Recovering Deleted Emails

If you delete an email message using one of the more popular email programs and need to recover it, you may have hope. Most email programs have a "Deleted" folder or "Recycle Bin". Just navigate to that folder and see if your old email is there.

If the email is NOT present in this folder, you have a couple of possible choices. If you know some information about the email (such as its sender's e-mail address, time, date, subject, etc.) you *may*, with the help of a nice and friendly ISP, be able to have them recover the message. It's a long shot, but it may work.

You also may want to consider purchasing a file undelete program such as Norton's Utilities. Such software can, in some instances, recover deleted files such as e-mails.

Recovering deleted e-mails is NOT an easy task, but it is possible with a lot of help and a lot of luck. The moral is - be careful before deleting email, especially permanently from a "Recycle Bin" or "Deleted" folder.