Retrieve deleted emails?

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They have been deleted from my trash folder. The emails are really important
and were deleted a couple days ago. If they are deleted from my trash folder,
does it mean it's permanentely deleted?
 
hmann7 said:
Is there any way to retrieve emails that have been deleted? I use a yahoo
account.
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I very much doubt it. Since you access your email online, all of it would be
kept on Yahoo's mailservers. When you delete items in the "trash" folder in
Yahoo online mail, you are prompted with a "are you really really sure you
want to permanently delete these messages" box. If you answered "yes" then
your messages are for all intents and purposes Gone. Yes, you could
probably get them by running data recovery software on that particular
mailserver, but since the mail server belongs to Yahoo and you don't have
access to it (unless you are a Government or law enforcement agency) you
can't do that.

Malke
 
Also, since I use a web account (yahoo) instead of something like Outlook for
emails, can the email automatically save onto my computer? Or is that
impossible??
 
Okay. That makes sense. But the email were deleted awhile back. Do you
think they would still be on the server??
 
hmann7 said:
Also, since I use a web account (yahoo) instead of something like Outlook
for
emails, can the email automatically save onto my computer? Or is that
impossible??
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You can do that if you either pay for a Yahoo premium account, or for
nothing if you have a Yahoo UK account.
 
hmann7 said:
Is there any way to retrieve emails that have been deleted? I
use a yahoo account.
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I very much doubt it. Since you access your email online, all of
it would be kept on Yahoo's mailservers. When you delete items in
the "trash" folder in Yahoo online mail, you are prompted with a
"are you really really sure you want to permanently delete these
messages" box. If you answered "yes" then your messages are for
all intents and purposes Gone. Yes, you could probably get them by
running data recovery software on that particular mailserver, but
since the mail server belongs to Yahoo and you don't have access
to it (unless you are a Government or law enforcement agency) you
can't do that.
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Okay. That makes sense. But the email were deleted awhile back.
Do you think they would still be on the server??
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hmann7,

They are gone. *poof*

You do not own the server and you probably do not pay Yahoo for your email
service so you have no way of getting them to run a recovery for you on
their servers and even if you did - they probably would not do it simply
because it is likely their policy that email - particularly on free
accounts - is not backed up. You decided not to pop your email or keep a
copy of it anywhere other than on Yahoo's servers. Because of this when you
deleted them and then emptied your trash (or the trash was automatically
emptied for you) - the messages went forever into the ether of nothingness.
Gone. No getting them back.

If they were important - you should have kept them someplace like they were
important.

I'm sorry. They are gone. Unless you saved them someplace manually,
printed them - something - *poof*.
 
Okay. That makes sense. But the email were deleted awhile back. Do you
think they would still be on the server??
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Only Yahoo! Mail administrators know the answer. You won't be able to
contact them; Yahoo! doesn't give you access.

If you want to archive your email online, don't send the email to the trash
folder. Yahoo! Mail cleans that out on a periodic basis. Create a folder for
the email you would archive and move it there. If this is a free Yahoo! Mail
account, you only get 1 GByte of storage; which is more than most other
free, and even ISP email accounts provide.
 
N. Miller said:
If this is a free Yahoo! Mail account, you only get 1 GByte of
storage; which is more than most other free, and even ISP email
accounts provide.
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Don't know about that anymore...

AOL gives 2GB.
GMail is what - 2.7GB now?
Hotmail is sad.
 
I am only so concerned to retrieve the emails because I had received some
threatening ones. I deleted them because I didn't think the threats were
likely, but after a recent incident, I wanted to use the emails as proof and
report it to law enforcement.
 
Contact your local law enforcement and Yahoo IMMEDIATELY:
http://yhoo.client.shareholder.com/press/address.cfm
There ,ay be better contact sources but that is what I quickly found.

In reality it may be too late.
But no one here can help you, if you are going to attempt to take action,
you need to do it NOW so any little possibility of retrieving the Email is
taken if possible.
 
N. Miller wrote:
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Don't know about that anymore...

AOL gives 2GB.
GMail is what - 2.7GB now?
Hotmail is sad.
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Look up the definition of "most".

Look up:

eMail.com.
Excite Mail.
FastMail.
GMX Mail.
Juno Mail.
ICQMail.
Lycos Mail.
MyRealBox.
Oprea Mail.
SacBee Mail.
UYMail.

2 to 11. None of those six offer more that 250MBytes. "Most" free web mail
services don't even approach the Yahoo! Mail 1 GByte capacity.

I would include AIM Mail with AOL Mail and GMail, but I don't know if AIM
Mail should be considered independent of AOL Mail; it also offers a 2 GByte
capacity.
 
N. Miller wrote:
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I am only so concerned to retrieve the emails because I had received some
threatening ones. I deleted them because I didn't think the threats were
likely, but after a recent incident, I wanted to use the emails as proof and
report it to law enforcement.
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Yahoo! Mail would likely respond to a court order. The question is, would
your local LEA get the order to Yahoo! before they delete any backup they
might keep against an email disaster. I am not clear on whether the FBI ever
got the U.S. Congress to give them the long file storage that they were
asking for.

_YOU_ need to report the incidents to your local LEA. If you don't have any
examples, you might have a tough go at it, though.
 
N. Miller said:
If this is a free Yahoo! Mail account, you only get 1 GByte of
storage; which is more than most other free, and even ISP email
accounts provide.
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Shenan said:
Don't know about that anymore...

AOL gives 2GB.
GMail is what - 2.7GB now?
Hotmail is sad.
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N. Miller said:
Look up the definition of "most".

Look up:

eMail.com.
Excite Mail.
FastMail.
GMX Mail.
Juno Mail.
ICQMail.
Lycos Mail.
MyRealBox.
Oprea Mail.
SacBee Mail.
UYMail.

2 to 11. None of those six offer more that 250MBytes. "Most" free
web mail services don't even approach the Yahoo! Mail 1 GByte
capacity.

I would include AIM Mail with AOL Mail and GMail, but I don't know
if AIM Mail should be considered independent of AOL Mail; it also
offers a 2 GByte capacity.
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I was going for the 'real' email services.

Those you listed are not used as often by those who would actuall be someone
I would listen to when recommending email services - free or otherwise - so
*I* don't even consider them anymore. I definitely wouldn't recommend any
of them to anyone.

To be quite honest - GMAIL and YAHOO are about the only two free ones I
would even consider offering as a solution for anyone.
We can list the little guys all day, after all you left out ones like
petcentral.com, softhome.net and hushmail.com... And that is just thre of
the many. heh

I wasn't trying to start an argument - just adding more to the list. I
believe people should be given more than one choice - and since you only
listed 'Yahoo'...
 
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