If you want to restore deleted mail from the Outlook.com Deleted Items folder, here is how you can do that. On the other hand, if you want Outlook to delete or empty the Deleted Items folder, you can do that as well with the help of this step-by-step guide.
The Outlook/Hotmail team has always been helpful in helping retrieve deleted mail on a personal level, even after emptying your Deleted items folder. Subsequently, Hotmail started offering a feature to let you recover deleted mail.
Those who have upgraded to the new Outlook.com mail may be happy to know that this feature has been continued here too! With Microsoft Outlook, you can recover emails that might have been accidentally deleted from your inbox or your Deleted folder. This is also helpful if your account has been hacked because hackers often delete all the messages in an account.
Restore deleted mail in Outlook.com
To restore deleted mail in Outlook.com, follow these steps:
- Open the Outlook.com website.
- Click on the Deleted Items folder.
- Tick the email you want to restore or recover.
- Click the Restore button.
To learn more about these steps, continue reading.
First, you need to open the Outlook website and sign into your account. Then, find the Delete Items folder on the left-hand side and click on it.
Here you can see all the deleted emails. Tick the corresponding checkbox that you want to restore and click the Restore button.
Outlook will recover as many messages as possible and put them in your Deleted folder. If you don’t see the deleted messages that you wanted, it means they are permanently lost. When the recovered messages are back in your Deleted folder, you should move the important ones back to your inbox or personal folders because the Deleted folder gets cleaned out periodically.
Do note this feature does not work for child accounts. This way, parents can be confident that when they delete messages from their children’s accounts – they stay deleted!
Related: Recover items deleted from the Deleted Items folder of Outlook.
Opt out of Recover or Restore deleted mail feature in Outlook.com
To opt out of Recover or Restore deleted mail feature in Outlook.com, follow these steps:
- Click on the settings gear icon.
- Ensure that you are in the Mail tab.
- Go to the Message handling tab.
- Head to the When signing out section.
- Tick the Empty my deleted items folder checkbox.
- Click the Save button.
To learn more about these steps, continue reading.
First, you need to sign in to your Outlook.com email address and click on the settings gear icon visible on the top-right corner.
Then, go to Mail > Message handling.
Next, head to the When signing out section and tick the Empty my deleted items folder checkbox.
Finally, click the Save button. Once done, your Deleted Items folder will be emptied whenever you sign out of your email account.
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How to recover deleted emails from Outlook deleted folder?
To recover deleted emails from the Outlook Deleted Items folder, you need to expand the Folders section and click on the Deleted Items option. Choose the email you want to recover and tick the corresponding checkbox. Then, click the Restore button visible in the top menu bar.
How do I recover permanently deleted emails?
As of now, there is no option to recover permanently deleted emails from Outlook.com. Once the email is deleted, it gets removed from the server as well as your account. You cannot find the email anywhere. However, at times, the desktop version may not delete the email instantly. Therefore, you can try the desktop app to recover the email.
Read: How to recover deleted Yahoo & Gmail emails from Trash.
