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May 6, 2008 | 04:16 PM

unclehan

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a weird question on email

Hi, let's say you had an email exchange with someone 2 years ago. And since then you've deleted this email from your inbox or your trash. But later this email might be useful, let's say, in a litigation. Are there any way to retrieve it? Does the email providers (like Yahoo and Google) keep archives or records of those?

Thanks

May 6, 2008 | 05:16 PM

donjamer

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From: MA

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Originally Posted by unclehan

There are ways to retrieve it, but 2 years later most likely impossible..

You can try this company..

Data Recovery Software to Undelete; File recovery; Disk recovery; Recover Deleted Files

They have an email recovery program..

Try contacting your ISP they may keep them, but I doubt it..

May 6, 2008 | 08:32 PM

Secret Agent 069

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Originally Posted by donjamer

Data recovery DOES NOT WORK with Email folders, they're coded differently. If the file has been deleted from your inbox, and the trash erased. then you can do a Hardware recovery until the cows come home. BUt it'll still do nothing, but lighten your wallet.

You might want to check your email thru the webmail. There might be a possiblity of it still being in your inbox there, if it was setup in Outlook Express or MS Outlook to save a copy on your ISP server as well as downloading a copy to your inbox.

Personally I refuse to use anything but Webmail, I use Gmail, and with almost 7gb of space, I'll never run out of storage

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You are currently using 560 MB (8%) of your 6697 MB.

.. I have an email service thru my Isp, but I only sent one email with it to activate it...

May 6, 2008 | 10:56 PM

donjamer

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Originally Posted by Secret Agent 069

Data recovery does work with that program.. I successfully used that email recovery program to get some email info, for a customer, that a former employee delete before leaving.

It was an outlook PST file..