Outlook 2021 - deleted sent emails IMAP - how to recover

Question

Good afternoon, I don't know how did it happen to me, but unfortunately I deleted about 2years of sent emails from my account in Outlook 2021 which is @gmail.com email through IMAP. Unfortunately, to be even worse, I even cleaned the deleted messages folder.

Please does exist some way how to recoved these emails through Outlook 2021 or some SW etc? I tried some Google tool for recovering, which actually didn't work (didn't recoved anything). Please is the some way how to recover through Outlook? I was doing my best to Google some solution and didn't find anything working :(

Thank you in advance for tips or replies.

Ondrej

Answer 1

Hi @Ondrej

Welcome to our forum!

In Outlook, recovering deleted messages also depends on how you deleted them.

If you can't find an item in the Deleted Items folder, the next place to look is the Recoverable Items folder. This is a hidden folder, and it's the place where items are moved when you do one of the following things:

• Delete an item from the Deleted Items folder.
• Empty the Deleted Items folder.
• Permanently delete an item from the Inbox or from another folder by selecting it and pressing Shift+Delete.

You can try to recover by following these steps:

In Outlook, go to the email folder list and select "Deleted Items". On the Home tab, select Recover Deleted Items from Server. Select the items you want to recover, select Restore Selected Items, and then select OK. More information, see：https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/office/recover-deleted-items-in-outlook-for-windows-49e81f3c-c8f4-4426-a0b9-c0fd751d48ce

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