I went to permanently delete one e-mail from my inbox and accidentally
permanently deleted all of them. How do I recover them?

Not sure about the permanent delete - Do you have a deleted items folder - if
so they should all be there unless you are set to delete immediately. Fingers
crossed.

"mpk5011" wrote:

> I went to permanently delete one e-mail from my inbox and accidentally
> permanently deleted all of them. How do I recover them?

"mpk5011" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>I went to permanently delete one e-mail from my inbox and accidentally
> permanently deleted all of them. How do I recover them?

Permanent usually means permanent. Recover them from your most recent
backup.

If you don't have a backup, if you use a PST, have not compacted your PST
and have not received more messages since, this is your only hope:
http://www.howto-outlook.com/howto/r...outlookpst.htm
--
Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]

Just a shot...

If you are using an IMAP connection, you might find that your email server
administrators have the option turned on to hold onto deleted emails in the
background for a certain length of time. I managed a Microsoft Exchange
server for my business and chose to keep users deleted emails for 60 days.
There were a number of times when I got your type of request and was able to
show them how to click on their deleted items folder and then recover
deleted messages. Of course that takes extra storage and backup resources
on their part.

(IMAP is important because POP3 means "give it to him and dump it". With
IMAP, the mail server hangs on to the message for as long as you do so that
the time from when you delete the item, realize your mistake, and get back
to the support team is probably within their retention time frame, assuming
they've got that option enabled.)

see http://www.outlook-tips.net/howto/recover_deleted.htm - generally
speaking, unless you have a backup, you can't recover them.

--
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"mpk5011" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I went to permanently delete one e-mail from my inbox and accidentally
> permanently deleted all of them. How do I recover them?