I was deleting stuff from Mail while watching TV and accidentally deleted my Sent emails. I don't have Time Machine but I thought Icloud would have a backup or my other computer. But when I started my other computer, it synced so the Sent folder is empty on it too.
There doesn't seem to be a Forum for Mail so I chose Sierra.
MacBook Pro with Retina display, macOS Sierra (10.12.3)
This is the right Discussions forum.
TM has been incorporated in all macOS versions for about a decade. All you need to do is use it. To learn how to do that please read Use Time Machine to back up or restore your Mac - Apple Support. That document explains the various backup devices that will work with it.
If you use iCloud Mail, your Sent items will be found in the Sent folder on all your Apple devices. If you do not use iCloud Mail then contact your email service provider to learn how to control or otherwise dispose of sent email messages.
In the case of iCloud Mail sent messages are cached on your Mac, in Mail's Sent folder They will also be available on iCloud's servers for your other Apple devices to use, until you delete them from Sent. If in doubt log in to https://www.icloud.com/#mail on a Mac, and click the Sent folder on the left. If they are retrievable, that's where they will be found. If they are not there, they're gone.
Google Mail is a completely separate question. Ask them; I don't use it.
No, you're probably not correct in assuming that. At least not in a way that does you any good. I am sure, given the proper motivation, the FBI, Homeland Security, or NSA could probably hunt them down. All you have to do is make yourself a suspect in a major terrorist plot, wait for them to gather the information and actually charge you with something, then have your lawyer subpoena the retrieved emails as part of the discovery process in preparing your defense... Beyond that, if they are no longer present on the server when you look at your web mail (gmail, for example) and you don't have a backup, then they are effectively gone forever.
If your web mail ( gmail ) is configured with IMAP account , the mail copies are in Archive folder .
You can read this article also : Mail for Mac: Rebuild mailboxes
I feel all my stuff is on the Internet somewhere as, when people are sending illegal messages, the cops find them.
I have over thirty mailboxes in Mail including iCloud and Google. Am I right in thinking that my old emails are cached somewhere on the Internet by default and that I could get access to them?
restoring deleted Sent emails
