Lost mail in pop account

I wonder if anyone has any ideas. this is not too serious since I have all my old mail on the pop server for my isp, but while cleaning up my mail I selected a bunch of mail from one person and hit delete.(on a pop account- in addition I also have a dot mac account) I selected first by doing a search and then "select all". Then I hit the red circle with the dash in it. When I went back to the complete mail box- all was gone. Now it gets weird. The mail, all of it not just a select bunch, was not in the trash. I did a search in spotlight - nowhere could I find it. I looked in the compter trash. I don't really know what it would look like here but as far as I could tell- nada. I have looked for specific emails in spotlight hoping it would seek them out and thereby clue me where they went. How bizare- I even had looked to undo the delete - but it wasn't highlighted. It would seem to me the programmers should be a little more careful with not letting this type of thing happen.

Hello bonedoc66 and welcome to the Discussions.
Check my post in this thread for the answer.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=2524221&#2524221

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