Also those programs will only partially recover the messages, and if they
included attachments or images, those won't be recoverable.

steve

"Joy" wrote in message
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Thanks. I think before downloading (or buying) a whole utlitity program
at this point, I'll just wait and hope the senders whose messages were
rejected, will send them again. Thanks, anyway, though.

"Michael Santovec" wrote in message
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Only files go to the Recycle Bin. Messages aren't files, they are just
some data within a file like text within a word processing document. Even
though there are folders within Outlook Express they aren't real Windows
folders.

If you haven't compacted your OE folders yet, you might be able to
recover some of the messages using one of these utilities:

DBXtract - http://www.oehelp.com/DBXtract/Default.aspx
DBXpress - http://www.oehelp.com/DBXpress/Default.aspx


--

Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm


"Joy" wrote in message
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Is there any way to undelete deleted messages that have been deleted
from the deleted items folder? Would they be in the Recycle Bin or
anywhere else? My phone line was down due to a storm, and my ISP
(BellSouth) started returning messages because my mailbox was full (they
don't allow much space!). I had a bunch of messages from them, most of
which I didn't bother to read because it's usually from one sender, who
sends huge things. Now I find out there were at least 2 important
messages from other people that I didn't know about.