Recovery of "Deleted" Email

[Ian Johnson]

As a very long term demon customer (since 95). I'm still using pop. Until adsl I used pure smtp for mail. Since pop3. As I collect mail on many devices, my main server is configured to download & delete, all of my other devices to just download. 

Ian 

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irj at acm.org


On 15 Aug 2011, at 16:26, "Ian Batten" <igb at batten.eu.org> wrote:

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> On 15 Aug 11, at 1035, Clive D.W. Feather wrote:
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>> Email churns a *lot* - from memory, at Demon the mean lifetime of a
>> message in the mailstore was 2 to 3 days, meaning that 30% to 50% of the
>> files would be less than a day old. 
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> Although to be fair, back in the day that was a POP3 environment where the users downloaded the mail and deleted it from the server automatically (most POP3 client follow a RETR with a DELE unless you take special measures).  It will be different in either a webmail or an IMAP environment in which the users' primary copies reside on the server.
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