Accidentally deleted my Inbox! How do I recover my emails?

Anonymous
2010-04-10T21:49:33+00:00

Original title: I wanted to completely delete my "deleted" file. Accidently deleted my "inbox" ! How do I recover my emails in my inbox???

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Anonymous
2010-04-11T16:32:16+00:00

Hi demmittb,

• Which email program are you using?

• Did you check the deleted items folder in your email program?

If you are using Windows mail, then you may try the following steps to recover the emails:

  1. Click on the "Deleted Items" folder in the Windows Mail navigation pane. The "Deleted Items" folder is listed under "Local Folders."

Locate the deleted message to recover in the main window of the "Deleted Items" folder.

3. Select the message to recover and click "Edit" in the menu bar. Click "Undelete" to recover the message. The message will be moved back to the Inbox.

Hope this information is useful.

Praseetha K

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Anonymous
2010-04-11T09:20:06+00:00

check your trash mail

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  1. Anonymous
    2016-09-26T14:25:57+00:00

    Hi,

    I have deleted my ENTIRE inbox, I need some way to select all and move them back to my inbox. The above option isn't available to me if I tick all my emails, do you know any other ways?

    Thank you :)

    (Currently terrified!)

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-09-23T16:35:18+00:00

    Are they in Deleted Items in Windows Mail? Single click on one message header to highlight it and then Ctrl+A will highlight them all. Right click on the highlighted messages and then Move To Folder.

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  3. Anonymous
    2013-01-18T17:14:55+00:00

    Thank you Praseetha, I thought that you had my problem resolved, but I don't have a uudelete option onmy edit drop down window. I do have a mark as unread option, will this work? Or what can I do next? Thanks Tom W

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