Lost all my emails from my .mac account

Hi. I discovered today that all my email has been deleted from my mail account. i use .mac and suspect (though she denies it fervently) that my 11 year old has done this accidentally, which I guess means she must have just blown through the usual 'are you sure?' warnings...
Is there any way to deal with this, given that it must have happened in the last 5 days, or should i just reconcile myself to rebuilding all those useful files (and put in place a proper backup strategy....)?

If you haven't changed your .Mac account from a .Mac or IMAP type account to a POP type account and you don't access the account using an email client on another computer and the received messages are no longer available at the server when checking the account using webmail access, sounds like your 11 year old is to blame.
Messages in server stored mailboxes for a .Mac or IMAP type account remain on the server until deleted using the Mail.app or with webmail access. Messages are also removed from the server when transferred to a user created "On My Mac" mailbox in Mail which is stored locally on the hard drive.
The only mailbox that is stored on the server by default with a .Mac or IMAP type account is the account's Inbox mailbox. You must select to store Drafts, Sent, Trash and Junk messages on the server.
A backup of server stored mailboxes with the Mail.app will not be much help.
IMO, you shouldn't allow your 11 year old access to anything in your login account and Home folder/directory and disable automatic login when starting or re-starting the computer if currently enabled.
Create a user account for your 11 year old without admin privileges with a password that you know and enable Fast User Switching which makes the process of switching between user accounts a fast and easy process. When stepping away from your Mac, log out from your user account or switch to your 11 year old's account. This way, all data contained in your Home folder will be protected from such an accident.

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