Undelete deleted emails in IMAP folder

[el]

Hi all,
I have deleted a few important emails from an IMAP folder. Those items were crossed out at first and then removed away automatically from the folder by Outlook later. I no longer able to select any of them for undelete. However, I can see the "Purge Deleted Messages" menu item is available so I assume they are still stored in Outlook somewhere. Is there anyway to recover them?



System: MS Outlook 2003 in MS Exchange 2003 Std

TIA,
el

 

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el wrote:

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I have deleted a few important emails from an IMAP folder. Those
items were crossed out at first and then removed away automatically
from the folder by Outlook later.

That's how IMAP works. Items get flagged as *eligible* for deletion but
don't get deleted until the next time the e-mail client syncs (polls)
the mailbox up on the server.

I no longer able to select any of
them for undelete.

Why would you? You said that you marked them for deletion and then they
eventually got deleted. What you requested got performed.

However, I can see the "Purge Deleted Messages"
menu item is available so I assume they are still stored in Outlook
somewhere. Is there anyway to recover them?

Yeah, that's a menu entry to perform an operation. As stated, the
line-through indicates an item is *eligible* for deletion but the item
doesn't get deleted until the next mail poll. The Purge button merely
forces an immediate connection to do the synchronization rather than
waiting until the next mail poll.

You asked that the item get deleted. It then got deleted. You want
Outlook not to delete the items that you tell it to delete?

System: MS Outlook 2003 in MS Exchange 2003 Std

Since you claimed to be connecting to an IMAP mail server, it is
irrelevant that some other account defined in Outlook is using Exchange.