OOPS - POP account Deleted AND all local messages

Well, NOW I find out that when you delete your POP account from your MAIL preference, all the messages from that account go bye-bye. Guess I am too used to the IBM world and MS Office that hangs on to your messages even if the mail server account goes away.
SO, is there any magic pill I can give my Mac to recover/find all these messages?
The server account is GONE and there are no messages on any server. All I have is the knowledge that there were 600 INBOX messages waiting for archiving reaching back to 2005 that are no longer visible from my mail box, and knowing that the computer took a good amount of time to eliminate that mail account when it got deleted.
Any Doctors/pharmacists with a perscription out there? Thanks ! Jim K.

If the messages are not on the server and you don’t have a backup (which you should have made before doing something like that), you may try to salvage as many deleted *.emlx files as possible with a data recovery tool such as Data Rescue II, TechTool Pro, or FileSalvage (the files to be recovered would be different in the case of Mail 1.x). Of these, the only one I know for sure that can currently recover deleted *.emlx files is FileSalvage. 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.

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first, your email providers for those accounts have to offer IMAP access. very few providers provide both POP and IMAP access. gmail is one. but if an email provider does not provide IMAP access then there is nothing you can do.
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Message was edited by: susan-kelly

susan-kelly
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