Deleted E-mail Recovery

Emails have by far become the most important part of our personal and professional lives. That is why, Microsoft Office Outlook and Microsoft Outlook Express have become an integral part of our work life. Every day when we start our computer, especially in the office, the first thing we do is, check our mails. And mostly, we reply to them immediately, while others which need extra time, are marked or flagged, for reading and replying at a time, when we don’t have pressing work. Further, we do delete all the useless mails, also known as Junk mails. With a slew of Spam mails doing the rounds today,  there are a large number of mails that we delete daily, or weekly. To prevent accidental deletion of useful files, there is the added option of ‘Deleted Items folder’, in both the Microsoft email applications which allows us to recover deleted e-mails.

But when we are sure of the emails we do not want in our Outlook mailbox, like junk mails and Spam mails, we go ahead and delete them using Shift+Delete key combination. This way of deleting the files is also known as hard deleting a file. Another way of hard deleting files is by deleting the deleted files from the ‘Deleted Items folder’. But there are times, when along with the useless files, one or a few important files also get selected for deletion, and therefore get deleted, rather get ‘hard deleted’.

In such situations, for MS Office Outlook users, the only savior is archiving feature (i.e., in case your hard deleted files were archived before you deleted them). Archiving is a way of creating backups of old items like, emails, attachments, contacts, appointments, notes, journals, etc. Though, it is not necessary to create a backup manually as AutoArchive is a feature that allows you to backup files on the basis of default or specified archiving settings, automatically. Otherwise, you’ll have to recover deleted e-mails, by opting for third-party deleted mail recovery applications. These applications scan the entire PST file for all the items that have been deleted due to some reason or the other.

Stellar Phoenix Deleted Email Recovery is a reliable email restoration software that restores all the deleted PST items as PST, EML, and MSG files, and all deleted DBX e-mail files as .dbx and .eml files. Compatible with various Windows operating platforms including W7, Vista, XP, 2003, 2000 and NT4, this deleted mail recovery utility supports recovery of deleted emails that were created in MS Outlook emails 2007, 2003, 2002 and 2000, and in Outlook Express 5.x and 6.x.

Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Office Outlook store your precious emails, contacts, notes, tasks, journals, attachments, and other significant data in PST (Personal Storage Table) file. The PST file works like a database. It stores data in various folders, like Inbox, Outbox, and Sent Items. You can also add special folders to categorize your data. If you delete any mail from the PST file, it goes to the Deleted Items folder and you can restore the file from there, if required. However, in case you bypass the Deleted Items folder or empty the Deleted Items folder, the mail can not be restored. In such situations, deleted mail recovery solutions are required to get your precious emails recovered.

Since Outlook PST file works as a database, the data is restored within the file and an index is created to access it. The index points to every data item in the database. Index works as a file system and Microsoft Outlook uses it to locate and access data. In case the index is not working properly or damaged, the emails can not be accessed from the the PST file.

When you remove any email using the Shift + Delete button and bypassing the Deleted Items folder or emptying the Deleted Items folder, it is not deleted permanently by Outlook. Only the listing of the particular mail is removed from the index. The mail is still there in the PST file. However, it can not be accessed because Microsoft Outlook is unable to find the index entry of particular item.

In this cases, the space occupied by the deleted email is declared as ‘whitespace’. The mails are deleted permanently only when you Compact the PST file after removing the mail. Compacting the file recovers the whitespace and shrinks the PST file. If the Outlook data file has more than 20% of whitespace, it gets compacted automatically.

Recover Deleted Emails:

1. Restore accidentally deleted emails and other items from Deleted Items folder.
2. Restore PST file from backup.
3. Use third-party deleted email recovery software to scan the affected PST file and extract lost items from it.

The deleted mail recovery programs use powerful scanning techniques to ensure absolute recovery of deleted emails. They recover deleted email and offer secure and simple recovery with read-only conduct and attractive user interface.
Stellar Phoenix Deleted Email Recovery is an excellent solution to successfully recover your precious emails from PST file. The software works well with Microsoft Outlook 2007, 2003, 2002 (XP), and 2000. It recoups emails, notes, tasks, contacts, attachments, rules, calendar entries, and all other PST file objects.