"Light Bringer" wrote in message
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My computer drive had to be reformated Sunday night with no option
to get
information off of it. What happened to all my emails? Are they
downloaded
to my computer and therefore gone?


Depends on the e-mail account type. If POP, yes. If IMAP, no.

If you don't execute regularly scheduled backups then you have deemed
your data as trivial or reproducible.