Recovering deleted items

[Vincent14]

Is it possible to recover emails that have been removed from the Deleted Items folder? I need to monitor a user's emails and have no way of seeing what has been deleted because the user is deleting, then removing email from the Deleted Items folder. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

 

[newtoitall]

You can recover emails from Outlook 2003 client, by selecting tools - recover deleted mail. The exchange server holds deleted items on server for approx 30 days if i'm not mistaken.

 

[Vincent14]

Thanks for your response newtoitall. Can I do it from another computer with the Exchange account on it, or does it have to be the computer that the person is using?

 

[Zelandakh]

It has to be while you are logged in as that person to either Outlook or Outlook Web Access.

 

[jkupski]

If your goal is to monitor every message a user receives, why not simply forward a copy of every message to another mailbox?

 

[Vincent14]

I have that set up already. The issue is the outgoing messages. I have not figured out a way to copy all of the outgoing messages.

When I try to use "Recover deleted items" it is greyed out.

 

[epochap]

Give this a try....

Recovering Permanently Deleted Mails (Including Sub-Folders)

This document gives the procedure to recover shift deleted [permanently deleted] mails from Microsoft Outlook.

Procedure:

1) First go to Run and type regedit
2) Go to:
\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\EXCHANGE\CLIENT\OPTIONS registry key.
3) Right click options and add new DWORD VALUE (data type is REG_DWORD) and then right click and rename to DumpsterAlwaysOn. It is case sensitive.
4) Then rights click and modify and make the value 1 to turn the Recover Deleted Items menu choice on for all folders or enter 0 to turn it off.
5) Then go to Outlook , choose "Recover deleted items" option from the Tools
Menu to get back your "permanently deleted" mails!

Note : This procedure can recover mails which were deleted by pressing shift+del in the past 4 days only.

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[Vincent14]

Thanks epochap. I will give this a try. Stay tuned...