How to Restore Deleted Yahoo Mails?

 It can be quite frustrating when you are unable to find the important emails that you are looking for in your Yahoo Mail inbox folder. There can be numerous reasons due to which your emails could be difficult to find. Below you can find the workarounds to find missing messages and restore deleted Yahoo Mails.

Guide to Restore Missing and Delete Yahoo Mails

1.     Your Emails Are Stored in an Unexpected Folder

The email filters and spam filters of Yahoo are known for sending the incoming emails to folders other than your Inbox folder.

Search for the Missing Emails:Yahoo Mail is known for providing basic and advanced search options. Using these search options, you can find the important missing emails of your Yahoo Mail account. Just enter the keywords related to the email message you are searching for or enter more information about the email using the Advanced search option.

Spam and Trash:The messages that are stored in the Spam and Trash folder of your Yahoo Mail account doesn’t show in the search results. If you do not find the missing emails using the Basic or Advanced search option, you will need to check them manually in the Spam and Trash filter.

Filters:You will need to review the settings of filters in your Yahoo Mail account to check if any filter you created is sending emails to another folder.

2.       An Application Deleted your Yahoo Emails

If you use any email client to access emails of your Yahoo Mail account on your mobile device or your computer, there is a possibility that your email app settings or actions might have caused emails to be removed from your Yahoo Mail account.

Applications Which Uses IMAP and Yahoo Mail Apps

Some of the desktop email programs and most mobile email applications, such as on Android and iPhone, are known for using IMAP settings for the configuration.

·         Any sort of action or change you make in these email applications get reflected in your Yahoo Mail account everywhere.

·         When you delete emails using these apps, they get moved to your Trash folder before getting deleted permanently.

·         If you also remove the emails from the Trash folder, they get completed removed your account.

Applications That Use POP

Desktop applications such as Mac Mail, Microsoft Outlook, and Mozilla Thunderbird, can access your Yahoo Mail account using POP.

·         Copies of your email messages are downloaded to the app, so any action and change made to the emails in the app don’t affect your Yahoo Mail account everywhere.

·         However, one POP setting will remove email from your account when the emails get downloaded.

·         You can disable the “delete emails from the server” option by contacting your app manufacturer.

 

3.     Recovering Lost or Deleted Emails

In case any of your email messages have been deleted or gone missing in the past 7 days, you can recover such emails by submitting a restore request to Yahoo. The email service will try to do everything to try restoring your lost messages.

To submit the request to Yahoo, you will need to go to the Restore Request page (help.yahoo.com/kb/recover-lost-deleted-emails-sln2552.html ) of Yahoo. However, you will need to keep the following in mind:

·         Once submitted, you will not be able to cancel the restore request.

·         Restore requests are not always successful.

·         Only those emails will be recovered those have got deleted or lost in the past 7 days, no matter when they were received originally.

·         The emails which will be recovered through the restore request will be added back to the same folder where they were located at the time you choose to restore to. You can check your Trash folder if you are unable to find them after the restoration process gets completed.

 

4.     If Someone Else Deleted Your Email

If you think someone has to access your account and removed the email messages from your account, it is strongly recommended to consider changing your account password right away. Here are the steps to change your account password.

·         Sign in to your Yahoo Mail account on a supported web browser.

·         Once you are logged into your Yahoo Mail account, you will need to click on your Profile Name located near the top-right corner of the page.

·         From the drop-down menu that appears on your screen, you will need to select the Account info option.

·         In the Account info section, you will need to click on the Account security option located in the left-hand side panel.

·         Under the Account security option, you will need to click on the Change password option located on the right-hand side and follow the on-screen prompts.

·         After changing the password of your account, you can follow the instructions provided in step 3 to submit a restore request.

So, these are the workarounds that can help you find and restore your deleted and missing emails in your Yahoo Mail account. For any professional help call Yahoo customer support service number to fix Yahoo email issue.