Mail from deleted account

Please help. I called Earthlink to resolve some issues with being unable to retrieve my messages off the server. Some gentleman (I'll refrain from an adjectives) told me to delete the accounts under Mail - Preferences - Accounts. This took all emails that were in my inbox and sent box away. He assured me they weren't gone. (He also had me delete my .mac account, why did I listen to him?) Well, they have disappeared. I was able to talk another earthlink representative and now have my settings correct for retrieveing my mail. I am unable to locate where the mail that was in my inbox has gone. Any help would be MUCH APPRECIATED, as I am VERY frustrated. Thank you.
eMac Mac OS X (10.3.9)

It all depends on the type of account and how it was configured. For IMAP-type accounts, mail is stored on the server, and setting up the account again is all that’s needed to regain access to your mail.
If you deleted a POP account, however, then all your mail stored in that account’s mailboxes has certainly been wiped out, not just moved somewhere, and you were warned that this would happen by the following alert:
Remove Account
Are you sure you want to remove the <AccountType> account "<AccountName>"?
This will permanently delete the account setup information, mailboxes, and messages from your computer. Messages stored on the mail server will not be affected.
To prevent that from happening, you should have moved your mail to custom “On My Mac” mailboxes instead of leaving it in the account’s mailboxes.
If the POP account was configured to leave mail on the server for some time instead of removing it right away when downloaded, incoming mail that’s still on the server can be re-downloaded by setting up the account again, just like for IMAP accounts, but keep in mind that this would only work for received (i.e. not sent) mail that has not yet been removed from the server.
If the messages are not on the server, and you don’t have a backup, your only option is using a data recovery tool such as Data Rescue II, TechTool Pro, or FileSalvage to try to salvage as many deleted mbox files as possible in the case of Mail 1.x, and as many deleted *.emlx files as possible in the case of Mail 2.x. Of these utilities, the only one I know for sure that can currently recover deleted *.emlx files is FileSalvage, but if you’re running Mac OS X 10.3 any of them might do. Stop using your computer right now if you want to try that, as anything you do with the computer may cause the deleted files to be overwritten.
As you can see, you should regularly back up any data you cannot afford to lose, more so if you’re going to troubleshoot a problem by deleting things...
BTW, if you’re running Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther), as your profile indicates, it would have been more appropriate to discuss this in the Mail & Address Book - Mac OS X 10.3 & earlier forum.

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Hi Again,
I am hoping someone on this forum will possibly have an answer to a very confusing problem.
I can't seem to get one of my e-mail accounts to be set up 'properly' on my iPad 4. The account in question is an account from BT, which has @btinternet.com at the end of it. I have 'installed' and deleted this account more than ten times. When setting up this account (as with all other accounts that DO work properly), the only info I am 'asked' to input is my name, e-mail address and password, in the 'text entry spaces' that relate to the INCOMING mail server. When this is done I USUALLY see the word 'verifying........' Then the 'blue tick marks' confirming that the info I have entered is correct. The validity of this info is also confirmed by the fact that this account can RECEIVE the e-mails sent to it.
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Hello All,
To anyone with the same problem described above, on THEIR iPad (if it is running iOS 7.0.2):
Go to Settings; Mail, Contacts, Calendars; DELETE your *******@btinternet.com e-mail account, that you originally set up either using 'Other', or the 'BT' option which I am sure was in the list previous to the iOS 7 update.
Then ADD a NEW account choosing YAHOO from the list of options. DO NOT USE 'OTHER'.
Enter the correct details just as you (almost certainly) had already done in your previous attempts using 'other'.
When you see the 'verifying......' and 'the blue ticks' you should be able to exit settings and open your mail app and then receive all your 'old' e-mails again, AND be able to SEND as well.
All my 'old' e-mails, were NOT found in the 'old e-mail' folder though. THEY are still in my inbox.
So this fix worked for me.
After I deleted my account from 'OTHER' and put it in Yahoo, I like other people also ended up with more folders.
I hope this works for you on YOUR Apple devices.
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