Any way to recover deleted emails?!

Question

Yesterday, I did a truly stupid thing.
Because Mail messes with PDF attachments I send to clients on a regular basis (it turns the PDFs into jpegs and embeds the file). I'd like to figure out why it does that, but that's not the immediate problem.
I decided to open Entourage and send a "test PDF" to her, to see if that worked better for sending attachments. (it did). However, when I set up a new POP account in Entourage (using info from my Mail account) - it downloaded all my inbox emails from Mail.
Without thinking or using any brain cells at all, I deleted them all from Entourage. And of course when I reopened Mail (which I prefer to use), all the emails were gone. After spending over an hour with a live chat tech person, nothing worked. The only helpful thing I learned was that I should have set up the account in Entourage as an IMAP and not a POP account.
I know I may be SOL, but thought someone here could suggest some magic wand thing to bring back those emails ... most of which were business-related and that it ***** to lose.
I like Mail a lot ... but Entourage and even Outlook have better features for handling attachments. I wish Mail would take some of those features.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions ... or even to slap the back of my hand.
p.s. I'm a graphic designer - so have to deal with sending a lot of PDF proofs.

Answer 1

The thing is, sometimes when I send PDFs it's fine, and sometimes she gets it and it's a jpeg and embedded ... not consistent at all ... I didn't assume for sure it was on my end, but without sitting at her computer and looking at Outlook, which I'll do the next time we meet, it's hard to know what's going on.
I do know that sometimes when I attach a PDF, the whole thing shows up in the body of the email (like it's embedded), and sometimes it's just a PDF icon attachment, and so I know that's something happening on my end before I even send the file, but can't for the life of me figure out what.
I like Mail a lot. But it does lack features that Outlook and Entourage have that I like. For instance being able to send an attachment to the main recipient only, and not the CCs and BCCs, which I used to so that a client knew I was sending the final high-res file to a printer, without having to send it to them. And I never had attachment problems when I used those programs, but maybe that's simply a function of using PC to PC programs.
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