Recovering Outlook Emails Without Any Copy On Server

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By default, Microsoft Outlook with POP/SMTP account is configured to remove all e-mails from the mail server once the user downloads them in the locally stored PST. So, PST is the only copy of your e-mails unless you set up Outlook to leave their copies on server. This Outlook setting can act as a safety net against accidental e-mail deletion from Outlook. The reason is that even if you delete the e-mails from Outlook permanently, the copies of those messages are still accessible from the server. But if you continue using Outlook with default settings, accidental deletion of e-mails is likely to occur. In such cases if you don't have any suitable backup, Deleted Email Recovery tool can rescue.

Consider the following instance to comprehend such problems of accidental e-mail deletion. You receive quite important e-mails through Outlook that uses a POP e-mail account. Later, you delete them accidentally and also empty the 'Deleted Items' folder. You cannot access those e-mails through webmail as the 'Leave a copy of messages on the server' option was not enabled. Moreover, ...
... you don't have any local backup to restore the PST e-mails. Such situations usually create critical data loss problems for an Outlook user.

Solution

To enable message copying on server, you need to enable the 'Leave a copy of messages on the server' option. For this, you need to follow the below steps:

Outlook 2002 or 2003

1)Open Outlook and click 'Tools' menu
2)Click 'E-mail Accounts'
3)Select 'View or change existing e-mail accounts' option and then click 'Next'
4)Select the account to be configured and click 'Change'
5)Click 'More Settings' tab and then click 'Advanced' tab
6)Check the 'Leave a copy of messages on the server' option

Outlook 2007

7)Open Outlook and click 'Tools' menu
8)Click 'Account Settings'
9)Select the desired account and click 'Change'
10)Click 'More Settings' tab and then click 'Advanced' tab
11)Check the 'Leave a copy of messages on the server' option

For recovering already deleted e-mails, use a third-party Email Recovery Software. These applications are designed to run specific scanning algorithms for an Outlook PST and perform Deleted Email Recovery.

Stellar Phoenix Deleted Email Recovery is a professional utility designed to recover deleted e-mails for an Outlook PST. The Recover Deleted Email Software supports MS Outlook 2007, 2003, 2002, and 2000. The tool can recover all deleted e-mails, notes, contacts, calendars etc.. The tool is compatible with Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2003, and 2000.