Can I undelete my mail?

My Rider University student mailbox (which uses Zimbra) was almost full, so I decided to set up a corresponding mailbox on my mac's Mail application. I set it up, and it downloaded all the emails from my inbox, and then I went back into my webmail and deleted everything from my inbox. I quit mail and turned off my computer for an hour or two.
When I turned on my machine and opened my Mail application, I saw my 1000+ emails sitting in my inbox for a second or two, then they all disappeared. I must have accidentally set some setting that caused it to synchronize with the server, when what I wanted was to keep my emails on my mac instead of on the server.
This only happened a few minutes ago, and I still have Mail open. Is there anything I can do to get my emails back?
Thanks,
Ahmil

It was an IMAP account, and yes, I'm pretty sure it did completely download all the emails (it took a while).
Then you erased the ones on the Server!? Likely Mail started Syncing to the Server then!?
It may be possible to recover some erased ones, but you must quit using the Computer immediately, because the OS will think it can write to those freed blocks on the disk.
Either boot this one in Target mode...
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=58583
And recovering from another Mac, or booting this Mac from another HDD, then using Data Rescue II...
http://www.prosofteng.com/products/data_rescue.php
(Has a Free Demo to see if it could or not, but you'll need another drive to recover to).
Or professional Data Recovery Services.
BUT, every second you use that Mac the chances will be slimmer.
Should I copy the folder to somewhere else?
On Mail...
First Quit Mail, then I'd backup/copy these two Mail folders to a Flash Drive or such.
Users/YourUserName/Library/Mail
Users/YourUserName/Library/Mail Downloads
(Could be a different folder here if you chose such in Mail Prefs)

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