Email Recovery Programs

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Email recovery programs can restore those important emails you accidentally delete. The emails usually are not completely deleted from your hard drive, and the email recovery software is able to search and find the deleted file. However, for Web-based email systems such as Gmail or Hotmail where emails aren’t stored locally on your hard drive, recovery may not be possible.

Stellar Phoenix Outlook PST Repair Software

Stellar Data Recovery offers their Stellar Phoenix Outlook PST Repair Software, which restores deleted emails that have either been removed from the Deleted Items folder or have been permanently deleted from the email program. The software also restores other features of Outlook such as notes, meetings, contacts, calendar information and distribution lists. Stellar’s software repairs corrupt or broken PST files—the .pst data storage format (PST stands for "personal storage") is for saving emails, appointments, and to-do lists in Outlook—and creates a new PST file that works. Even password-protected files will be restored as well as RTF and HTML message formatting. The emails can be restored not only if you accidentally delete the email, but also if the file crashes because it’s too large, you have an unexpected shutdown or the file is corrupted.

The wGXe Email Recovery program will restore lost, deleted or corrupted email messages, your mailbox contacts and entire EDB database files. If you lose email files due to your computer crashing, a hard drive failure or other system problems, wGXe Email Recovery software can restore your email software files. The five main features of the software are file recovery, support of almost all Windows file formats, high scanning speed, automatic backup of disk partitions and picture preview. The chances of recovering your files are better the sooner you implement the software after losing the files. Depending on your hard drive’s capacity, when you continue working and saving to the hard drive after losing the files, the deleted email files could be overwritten by the new files. The wGXe software recovers lost files not only on hard drives, but also on flash drives and memory cards.

Nucleus Data Recovery offers their Kernel Professional PST Repair Software for Microsoft Outlook that recovers lost personal storage (PST) files up to 2 GB each, which have been corrupted or lost by accidental deletion, virus attacks or otherwise damaged PST files. The software will recover the email message and any attachments, task and journal entries, calendar appointments and contact lists. The restored files are saved in a new PST file that is compatible with Microsoft Outlook. The software has a user-friendly interface and the recovery process requires three steps: choose the PST file you wish to recover, scan the file and save the file to the new location.