K2 Software Group

People write to me all the time asking how they can recover deleted emails. To be honest, sometimes their letters are almost comical in that they ask me how to rescue an email deleted months or years ago on a web based e-mail service. Recovering lost or deleted emails that were sent or received on web based email is extraordinarily difficult if not attempted within one week of the data being lost. Recovery of these mails after that length of time is completely impossible.

When one uses a localized email client such as Microsoft Outlook the difficulty involved in attempting to recover deleted mails is much less. Microsoft Outlook stores all of its data in what is known as a PST file. Depending on the version age of your Microsoft Outlook application you may either have just one of these PST files or several. When an email is lost on a local Microsoft Outlook client it is almost always due to PST file corruption. This can be remedied by using a powerful Microsoft Outlook PST repair program.