Recover Deleted Hotmail messages
Hello,
Q1 My IMAP Hotmail messages prior to June 2021 have dissappeared because I had a check box in Thunderbird ticked to remove after 72 days, not sure how this happened but need help recover them.
Thanks Michael
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Do you have a profile or mail backup that includes the old messages? Are they visible in the Deleted folder in Hotmail webmail?
No they are not in the Deleted folder, and backups are of no use because Imap emails are stored on the Hotmail servers. It appears if Thunderbird is set to delete emails beyond a chosen date then thats it, they are gone unless someone can please tell me that this is not true and that they can be recovered.
Michael
If you keep messages for offline access for an IMAP account, and have a profile backup, mail folders can be copied to Local Folders and read in TB. But if there are no backups, and if messages were set to be deleted after 72 days, I don't think there's any way to recover them.
I guessed that I may be clutching at straws, thanks.
Michael