Recover a deleted email
Find an email you deleted by mistake, even after you emptied Deleted Items.
Deleted email does not vanish right away. Check these places in order.
- Open the Deleted Items folder and look for the message. If you find it, right-click it and choose Move to put it back in your inbox.
- Not there? Check the Archive and Junk Email folders too.
- Still missing? In Outlook on the web, select Deleted Items and choose Recover items recently removed from this folder at the top. Select the messages you want and choose Restore.
- In classic Outlook, select Deleted Items, then choose Recover Deleted Items From Server on the Home tab.
Good to know
Recovery only works for a limited time, often about two weeks. The sooner you look, the better. If you cannot find it, tell us who sent it and roughly when it arrived, and we will try to help.