Is there a way to recover deleted email on my computer?

We inadvertantly deleted an important email on our computer and it is no longer in the trash folder since the messages in the trash folder that are older than a certain date are automatically deleted. Is there anyway to recover this deleted message? It is no longer available on our ISP's server and they said that they cannot access it so I am trying to find out if it is possible to recover the email from my computer. Thanks.
geoff
Powerbook G4   Mac OS X (10.3.9)  

Geoff,
Welcome to the Discussions.
I know of no sure way to make such a recovery, and the only possible way that comes to mind would to use some sort of data recovery software. However, if the Mac was used for any period of time, after the elapsed period of time to keep deleted messages, even that is most unlikely.
One other possibility, would be to examine both the mbox file of the INBOX.mbox and Deleted Messages.mbox folders, with another application, such as TextEdit or BBEdit to see if any reference remains. The path to these mbox files is as follows: Control-click over the xxxxx.mbox file, and choose Show Package Contents -- then open the mbox file with TextEdit or BBEdit. If deleted from the Inbox, check the package of both the INBOX.mbox and Deleted Messages.mbox folder from the account folder for this account (assuming here, that the account is POP). If deleted from a mailbox you created, then the folders to check the package of would be in the Mailboxes folder. All referenced xxxxx.mbox would be found within the Mail folder, at Home/Library/Mail.
Ernie

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