How to Recover Deleted Emails

How to Recover Deleted Emails from Gmail

When you delete an email in Gmail inbox, it goes to the trash folder instead of being deleted straight away. It stays in the Trash folder for 30 days before it gets permanently deleted. Keep in mind that there’s no way how to recover permanently deleted emails from Gmail. Because the clock starts ticking the second an email enters the trash folder, you need to hurry up before it’s too late.

1. Open your Gmail account.
2. Choose “Trash” from the menu on the left.
3. Select the deleted email you want to recover.
4. Click on the “Move” icon. It looks like a file folder.
5. Choose “Inbox” or any other folder where you would like to move the deleted email.

If you miss the 30-day deadline and discover that the email you would like to recover has already been permanently deleted, we have bad news for you: there’s no way how you can recover it.

However, there’s still a glimmer of hope that Google’s support team will be able to recover it on your behalf using special admin tools only they can access.

1. Open your Gmail account.
2. Go to the missing emails support page.
3. Enter your contact information and provide a brief description of your problem. You should tell Google that you’ve missed the 30-day deadline and lost an important email that you would like to recover.
4. Click the Submit button and wait for a reply.

How to Recover Deleted Emails in Outlook

Outlook.com has a very robust system for recovering deleted emails. Everything that ends up in the Deleted Items and Junk Email folders is recoverable for 30 days. In some cases, you can even recover items after the Deleted Items folder is emptied by contacting Outlook’s customer support.

1. Open your Outlook email account.
2. Select the Deleted Items folder from the menu on the left.
3. For the Deleted Items folder, select the message you want to recover and select Restore.
4. Go back to your inbox to see the recovered message.

If you miss the 30-day recovery deadline, it’s still worth a shot to contact Outlook’s customer support and ask them if they could recover the deleted email for you. That’s the only way how to recover permanently deleted emails in Outlook.

How to Recover Deleted Emails in Mail.com

The good news is that email messages deleted in Mail.com are not completely gone until they are deleted from the Trash folder. The bad news is that Mail.com empties the Trash folder after just one day. That’s right, Mail.com gives its users only one day to realize they’ve made a mistake, while most other email providers keep deleted emails in the Trash folder for at least a week. Interestingly, the default storage time for spam emails is 30 days.

If you’re lucky, and you still have some time left before Mail.com automatically empties the Trash folder, you can follow the steps below, which explain how to recover deleted email in Mail.com:

1. Open your Mail.com account.
2. Switch to the E-mail tab.
3. Go to the Trash folder and select the email messages you want to recover.
4. Move the selected email messages back to your inbox.

We highly recommend you check the storage time limits in Mail.com because the default values are not exactly reasonable:

1. Hover your mouse cursor over any email folder.
2. Click the wrench icon.
3. Adjust the storage time limit.
4. Confirm by clicking OK.

How to Recover Deleted Emails in ProtonMail

Known for its security and privacy, ProtonMail offers a free encrypted email services that works on any device without software install. All messages stored on ProtonMail's servers are encrypted, and they remain encrypted even when they're transmitted between ProtonMail users.

Because all encryption happens on the devices of ProtonMail users, the company has no way of decrypting the data stored on its servers. That's great news for users who don't want their personal data and sensitive information to be handed over to third parties, but it's bad news for those who want to recover deleted emails or account because that's simply not possible.

That's right, when you delete an email message in ProtonMail, that email message is gone for good, and even ProtonMail employees can't recover it. The same is true if you forget your password: you won't be able to access your account again.

If you want to avoid losing important emails, you can use ProtonMail's Import-Export application to export them to your computer.

How Clean Email Can Help Prevent a Disaster

Clean Email is an email inbox organizer that sifts through your inbox for you and uses powerful filters and complex algorithms to figure out which emails you can safely delete and which you should keep.

When Clean Email stumbles upon unwanted emails, it organizes them into easy-to-review bundles (Quick Clean), allowing you to move to Trash, or permanently remove them, as well as apply other actions to entire groups of emails instead of selecting them one by one.

What’s more, you can also automate any action you apply to an email or a group of emails to save time in the future. For example, you could automatically delete all marketing emails or move social media notifications to a separate folder so they don’t clutter your inbox.

By keeping your inbox clutter-free using Clean Email, you significantly reduce the chance of accidentally deleting an important email without noticing until it’s finally time to do an inbox cleanup. Clean Email works with all major free and paid email services, including Gmail, Yahoo, and Outlook, and you can use it directly from your web browser without installing anything on your computer.