I believe the first file ever lost must have been an email. I distinctly remember looking over a list of messages on AOL and absentmindedly deleting several of them. In those days, when you deleted a message on AOL it was totally gone forever. Today email recovery is far less difficult. Most web based email services such as AOL or Hotmail send deleted mail into a trash or recycle bin. From there they can usually be restored to the inbox. However after a length of time has passed, those messages are automatically deleted from the web based trash bin. Most people assume that when a web based email has been auto deleted it can never be recovered. While these are some of the most difficult files to recover using a powerful third party email recovery program you can find and save them. Another type of email recovery focuses on searching for and rescuing emails that originate and are stored on your computer’s hard drive. These are usually sent and saved using either Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Express. Email recovery for this type of message is pretty simple. Whether you aim to recover messages sent and received using a web based email service or recover messages sent and received from your personal computer, the solution for this problem remains the same. To recover emails lost or accidentally deleted in any manner you will need a powerful email recovery program. Such a program must include a step by step guide to email recovery from both web based email and local hard drive based email.