How To Recover Deleted Hotmail Emails
Microsoft has implemented two fail safe mechanisms when it comes to deleting emails in Hotmail. Emails that you delete in Microsoft's email service are first moved to the deleted folder. This is similar to the way files are deleted in Windows. The idea here is to give you an option to recover emails that you may have accidentally deleted, or emails that you have deleted but need to access at a later point in time again.
A click on deleted in the sidebar displays all email messages that you have deleted in Hotmail and not yet removed from that folder.
Recover Deleted Hotmail Emails
You can recover emails in the deleted emails folder by dragging and dropping them into another folder. It is important to check all emails that you want to move from the deleted folder into another one if you want to move more than one email from the folder. While you could move all emails individually, it is usually more convenient to mark all emails and move them at once.
Emails that you delete in Hotmail's deleted folder are not necessarily deleted permanently. This may come as a surprise to Hotmail users who thought that deleted emails would as a result be unrecoverable.
When you look at the bottom of the screen, you will notice the following message there:
Lost a message? When you recover deleted messages, we bring back as many as we can. Learn More.
The recover deleted messages sends a command to Hotmail to recover as many deleted emails as possible. While you do not get a guarantee that emails can be recovered, it can mean that you or someone else can recover emails that you thought were deleted permanently. As with all things tech, this can be used for good and bad purposes.
Microsoft does not reveal much about the process. The company fails to state the criteria (e.g. time, space or other constraints) that it uses to recover previously deleted emails.
The help page notes that the deleted folder gets cleaned up regularly, and that the option has been primarily been designed to give users an option to recover emails after hacking attacks (as hackers may delete all messages of an account).
There is however an option to stop Hotmail from offering to recover deleted messages. Click on the Options link in the upper right corner of the screen, and selected More Options from the context menu.
Click on advanced privacy settings under customizing Hotmail, and switch from let me recover deleted messages to don't let me recover deleted messages - once they leave the Deleted folder, don't give me a link to get them back under deleted messages here.
Click the Save button in the end to save the new preference. Emails that you delete in the deleted folder from that moment on, can't be recovered anymore.
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Can we recover permanent delete mail in hot amil.
Ok, I understand that if I disable the recovery option, I will not be able to recover emails from that point on. But how about from that point back, I want o purge any emails that had existed in the delete folder so nobody, even if they change the security setting can recover the emails.
Please advise.
I head to reset my phone.lost my email.trying to get it back.
All very well but Hotmail deleted all my mail without asking my permission and I can’t seem to recover it.
thanks for the details of how to retrieve deleted emails in Hotmail / Outlook. Saved (restored) contents of my Inbox, which I had inadvertently sent to Delete folder and deleted :o( Happy now :o))
should not it be a security problem issue as well? :S