Help - possible to recover POP mail?

[Lara F]

I just did a really stupid thing. I had a Yahoo.ca POP account set up in Mac Mail. I just switched to IMAP and deleted the account beforehand, not realizing that most of the mail (everything prior to Sept 28) had been taken off Yahoo's servers. 🙁

Now did deleting the account from Mac Mail still keep my mail somewhere on my hard drive? And if so where can I access it?

Thank goodness Gmail is my primary, but ugh. I can't believe I did that.

 

[Mal]

Do you have a backup? If not, you might try software like Data Rescue 3 (if it's important enough to you). If you're going to try that, though, STOP USING THE HARD DRIVE NOW. That's critical to being able to recover deleted files.

jW

 

[dianeoforegon]

Your POP messages are downloaded to the folders "On My Computer". Deleting the account should not have deleted the messages.