undeleting email

iamskippy

I deleted emails by mistake Are they somewhere on the drive and can they be undeleted? I searched for undelete programs but i do not understand them or how to know where to undelete from. I tried the trash folder but they are not there

snappieT

What program do you use to read your emails? (Outlook Express, Windows Mail, Lotus Notes?)

Who is your service provider (Eircom, Gmail - the bit after the @ in your email address)?

iamskippy

snappieT wrote: »

What program do you use to read your emails? (Outlook Express, Windows Mail, Lotus Notes?)

Poppeeper

Who is your service provider (Eircom, Gmail - the bit after the @ in your email address)?

yahoo

biko

POP peeper is a clientside app that will alert you when mails arrive in you yahoo account on the yahoo server.
Did you check your yahoo account to see if the mails are still there?
Login to yahoo mail directly on the webpage (don't use POPpeeper) to see.
If they are not there, check the deleted folder on the webpage.

iamskippy

Magnus wrote: »

POP peeper is a clientside app that will alert you when mails arrive in you yahoo account on the yahoo server.
Did you check your yahoo account to see if the mails are still there?
Login to yahoo mail directly on the webpage (don't use POPpeeper) to see.
If they are not there, check the deleted folder on the webpage.

I logged in to yahoo and they are not there in any folder

biko

You could try a google search for "restore deleted files"
For me it throws up www.pctools.com/file-recover & www.uneraser.com as possible options. They look pretty user friendly.
Mind I haven't used any software like this myself so can't help you there.

iamskippy

Magnus wrote: »

You could try a google search for "restore deleted files"
For me it throws up www.pctools.com/file-recover & www.uneraser.com as possible options. They look pretty user friendly.
Mind I haven't used any software like this myself so can't help you there.

i tried uneraser and found a few files but not my emails. Might try the pc tools one. Thanks;)

biko

You can also set POPp to not delete the mails from yahoo, only copy them, to avoid same thing happening again.
There should be a setting somewhere for this in POPp.
Good luck

iamskippy

Magnus wrote: »

You can also set POPp to not delete the mails from yahoo, only copy them, to avoid same thing happening again.
There should be a setting somewhere for this in POPp.
Good luck

OK thanks. PCtools did not work either:eek:

Standard Toaster

http://www.poppeeper.com/faq.php

Deleting Messages

• Why don't my messages delete? And what's with the blue-X? Why don't my messages delete? And what's with the blue-X? When you delete a message, it is "marked" for deletion (the Blue-X). The setting for Delete Mail Immediately determines when the message will be deleted -- either immediately or during the next mail check (default).
  
• When POP Peeper retrieves email, the messages are being deleted off the server and my email client can't pick up the messages. Is POP Peeper deleting the messages? When POP Peeper retrieves email, the messages are being deleted off the server and my email client can't pick up the messages. Is POP Peeper deleting the messages? POP Peeper only deletes messages when you tell it to; however, some servers automatically delete messages when they are retrieved. You might be able to circumvent this "feature" by specifying that the account download a preview of the message instead of the entire message. Even if the preview results in downloading the entire message, it may prevent the server from deleting the messages.
  For each account that you need to modify:
  - edit the account
  - go to "advanced"
  - set "retrieval option" to "preview"
  - set the "Num Lines"...
  
  To approximate what you need for the number of lines: assume 1 line is about 100 bytes (80 is an even closer approximation). So if you want to set a ceiling of about 1 meg per message, set the number of lines to 10,000. If you want to get the entire message regardless of size, set it to 500,000 (max message size of about 50 megs).
  This may not work for all servers, but has been successful for most people (I have not heard from a case where it did not work). Please note that most pop3 servers do not automatically delete messages.
  

If the mails are nowhere to be found when you log-on to yahoo directly they're gone.

iamskippy

The_Edge wrote: »

http://www.poppeeper.com/faq.php



If the mails are nowhere to be found when you log-on to yahoo directly they're gone.

that is right. yahoo say they can restore them if notified within 24 hours