Nothing wrong with using XP. A lot of us, myself included, continue to
use it.
The default with most POP3 clients is to delete messages from the mail
server after downloading. In WLM mail, the setting is at Tools,
Accounts, Mail, Properties, Advanced, Leave a copy on the server.
Uncheck the option to sop deleting them.
There's no good way to put the messages back on the server. About all
you can do forward the messages individually to yourself. But that will
alter the sender as well as the date.
If you or your son have deleted the account from WLM, that deletes the
messages from WLM as well. If that's the case, about all you can do is
use an Undelete utility to look for deleted EML files. The longer you
wait and the more you use your PC, the less likely you'll be able to
recover many.
--
Mike -
http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm
"tinwep15" <guest@xxxxxx-email.com> wrote in message
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Quote:
>
> Greetings community members. I'm a bit of an outsider (XP still,
> sorry),
> but I hope I can glean a little help. In short I've exactly the same
> issue as the original poster. I have a BT Yahoo account which my son
> has
> very 'helpfully' redirected to Windows Live mail. When he completed
> the
> migration, the entire contents of my inbox was deleted, presumably
> from
> the server too.
>
> Unfortunately he claims he has no idea what he did (he's a very
> bright,
> but typically careless 13 year old... no offence implied or otherwise
> to
> similarly inflicted members, but I swear the testosterone has caused
> serious brain damage), and now I'm struggling to understand how to
> recover a lot of important stuff.
>
> Could anyone help please?
>
> Email client: BT Yahoo (btopenworld)
> Server type: POP3
> OP sys: XP
>
> Cheers... Paul
>
>
> --
> tinwep15