Recovering deleted emails help

Hello all!

I have been googling this question with no avail.

I have gmail and I did not realize it "empties" my "trash" after 30 days which apparently permanently deletes the email and is not available to restore through gmail.

Is every email I looked at saved to my hard drive somewhere? I'm trying to find some important email from a while ago, probably over 6 months.

Is there a recovery program that can find these on my computer? Or something else?

 

ok i looked on my account and it says pop has been enabled since like october 2008.

however ive never used outlook express which is on my computer? so if it says its been enabled does that mean all my emails since then are stored in outlook somewhere?

did i maybe configure it automatically when i set up my account? (i didnt know what any of it was)

how can i check? if i didn't configure it, does that mean even though it was enabled it wasnt saving the stuff to anywhere?

 

To avoid any repetition, and also to avoid the need to set up Outlook Express, you can Archive your messages in Gmail. They won't then get deleted after 30 days.

 

So I setup the outlook express and it found basically all of my current stuff.

Is there any software out there I can get to 'recover' info from my computer?

Websites/emails etc? I've heard that anything you look at on your computer is saved to your hard drive even if you deleted it.

Where is this saved? I don't care if I have to purchase this software, just let me know what it is and where to get it.

I also was reading about some kind of mail fetch thing for google that gets more of your emails? Idk.

What are some other email clients besides outlook express that the email backups could be on? Perhaps they are on my computer and I don't know it? They would obviously be gmail compatible.

 

I think the problem is going to be that the emails you are searching for were never actually on your computer. You read them online and moved them to the trash, also online. They were never actually saved to your computer. I think that unless gmail has some sort of recovery utility, they are just gone.

 

I never download email to my computer. You have not either if Outlook Express wasn't set up.

For the future, you need to archive things you want to keep or forward them to another email address that will not be emptied every 30 days.
I have computer manuals stored at my gmail account. They've been there since August of last year.

 

won't they be saved in a HMTL file to recover? Seems I read this somewhere