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This is often a situation when your Emails get deleted accidentally. This action could sometime happen unwillingly but some time it may be due to a purpose. It may be done by an ex-girlfriend, colleague or friend who somehow managed to gain access to your Gmail account. The other possibility may be a successful hacking attempt and a hacker who likes to be destructive, or a service provider issue.

Whatever the reason is the point to discuss is if emails get deleted which you still needed then you need a way to get them back. For the purpose I am advising you to create regular Gmail backups you can access the deleted emails right from within the program’s interface. This guide parenthetically explains how to backup emails from different providers including Hotmail.

The folks who have no mail backups still may have a chance to restore their deleted Gmail messages, if the following requirements are met:

• Mails have not been deleted from the Gmail trash
• Less than 30 days have passed since the deletion

In Gmail when the user deletes emails, they are not deleted completely but moved to the trash of the service instead where they are kept until they are deleted by the owner of the account, or after 30 days of being stored in the trash.

For checking the emails that you have deleted and want to recover from trash, you have to do the following:

Open the Gmail homepage and sign into your account

• Locate the trash on the left sidebar. You may need to click on the more link before you see it.
• You can alternatively enter in:trash in the search to display it directly.
• If you find your deleted messages here, you can restore emails by selecting them and then using the move button to move the emails to the inbox or another folder.
• You can alternatively use the select all option to recover all emails found in the trash at once.

In case the deleted messages are not found here, you can try the following alternative options to recover them:

• Try to search for them. Maybe the messageshave not been deleted but only moved to another folder. By searching for the messages, you make sure that this is not the case.
• Check the All Mail folder which you find listed on the left sidebar. You may need to click on the more link before it becomes available here
• Check mail forwarding settings. While that won’t let you recover your emails, someone may have configured Gmail to automaticallyforward some or all messages to another email address.
• While you are at it, check filters as well to make sure that mails do not get automatically deleted because of filtering rules