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kaw rider9
9/22/2009 11:44am
9/22/2009 11:44am
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1/20/2012 7:57pm
How do I access deleted emails?
Can I?
Can I?
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My email is ozone9@comcast.net
Does that help?
I need to see some emails that have been deleted from about a month ago..
He certainly could call Comcast support and get the official answer from them.
Since you have a provider you should email them about it and I bet you'll get an answer. I am guessing they dump the delete folder automatically also. If you want to get around that set up your email thru Outlook.
So... like I said... once you delete emails on web-based servers they can not "for all but an extremely rare case like the NSA is involved" be retrieved.
Oh... and btw your emails still could still be retrieved if they deleted the file from the server, because until the actual area that the file was sitting at on the HD was overwritten, you can still do low level data retrieval and access the information.
Oh, yeah... that means... once HE deleted emails on the web server they can not be retrieved. Comcast is not going to have a web server out of commission so that some schmuck can retrieve an email from a month ago unless there was a court order that he was sending kiddy porn or had terrorist ties with emails to other non infidels!
For Christ's sake, does everyone on here have to show the rarest of cases to prove someone wrong?
P.S. If you deleted your email from my webmail servers I could restore it for you.
Thanks guys.
I have mine set to "never".
It's amazing how often you need to dig up old shit, and rub some ones nose in it.
Didnt realize we wanted to get this deep about a question from a non-techno as to the possibility of getting a month old deleted email.
But, I do stand corrected... Yes, it is possible to still retrieve the emails you deleted a month ago. Whewwww.... I feel better now!
Pit Row
We keep mail for 1 year for 75,000 users (robotic tape libraries) but that certainly doesn't mean Comcast does. Sure it's not likely that a generic ISP will restore his mail for him but he can't possibly know that until he calls them and asks. That would have been much easier than typing the question in here and getting a bunch of information from people who actually have absolutely no clue as to what Comcast's email capabilities are. Sure the answer is "probably" no, they won't do it (at least for free) but he can't know that until he talks to them.
I just checked Google mail faq and if you pay them you can get archival for up to 10 years so they have the capability but probably do not archive anything (or minimal) on the free accounts. That's me speculating and it also says nothing as to what Comcast's setup might be. He actually is a paying customer of Comcast so you never know.
MotoDrive is waaaay better than goggle!!! True story...
Looking back, I should have called comcast, but it really is not that big of a deal.... I said I hit "CC" for someone and they said I didn't...... I know for fact I did.. I just wanted to prove it..
Thanks for everything...
"The fact is, and correct me if I am wrong, but neither you nor I have any idea at all what Comcast's mail setup is"
What about "I do stand corrected" DONT YOU FUCKING GET???
Here, so you can feel the joy of being correct. You are Right. You are the master of all things computerized. You are worthy of incredible praise for things that are uttered from your cake hole. The correctness of all things said is beyond belief and is almost non-human. What you wrote is more correct than almost anything I have ever read in my life! It is utterly amazing!
You actually looked up on google faq about their archives to show someone they are "possibly" wrong on a forum post? Damn...Get a life!
kaw rider 9 - my deepest sympathies for misleading you into the world of non email retrieval! May the email gods bless you and all that are within your house and may you find those emails that you now seek!
Ok, now to more important (and fun) things like the yankee/halo game tonight
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