On Tue, 08 Jul 2003 10:00:48 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote: > Questions:
> When you delete some messages from your ISP's POP3 server, are the > messages usually automagically moved to some other storage media > maintained by your ISP before they are actually deleted from the > POP3 server? > I have always wondered if the messages you delete from the POP3 > server get saved somewhere else or whether they go to never-never > land. There is a file on the server that keeps all contents of your mailbox (all messages in a chain, like in mail folders on your local hard disk with Netscape Mail or some other e-mail clients; Arachne is an exception). When you send 'DELE n' command to the PO3 server, n-th message is removed from that mailbox file and no backup copy of it is created, as far as I know. > Is there any way you can retrieve some messges you have accidentally > deleted from your POP3 server? If it is at all possible to retrieve > them, it most likely would require some help by your ISP's technical > support people. Is it possible to retrieve them if your ISP is willing > to help? If it is possible to retrieve them, would it involve a great > deal of work by the technical support people? I don't think it's possible. At least it's much harder than undeleting a file under DOS. Michal
