Mail stored elsewhere?

I unchecked sync box for mail on mobile me and now have lost all incoming mail that I hadn't answered on Mac Air, iPad and iPhone it's totally gone so is there a server copy somewhere that I can't find? I'm new to apple but been on PC and Blkbry for years! Thane!

Thank u so much but...When I went to settings on new Mac, then mail,contacts etc, and then went to mobile me and "un"checked the sync box for mail, contacts and calendar cuz I have so many duplicates, it seemed to simply "remove" all mail in my inbox on new Mac, iPad and iPhone it's just gone, so I wondered if there was a site like I had with my old earthlink acct where I went online to earthlink.net then their webmail and logged in online for mail at least all of it was there and I could "resend" to me does that make sense I'm wondering if all mail is somewhere on line or stored? Luckily it's new so I have only about 50 emails to try and remember what they were! Ha

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