Retrieve old SENT mail

need to find an email SENT from my iphone (iphone 4s - use earthlink)

obiBunch wrote:
I did not delete it......it is just old and I let the time lapse before saving it.
It is gone then, same as deleted. You don't have it still on your email server?
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Hi
My dad's just upgraded to a 3GS, but he uses some essential e-mail accounts that unfortunately are POP only. He still has his old 3G which has all the old sent mail. Is there any way to retrieve this, be it through iTunes or another application? (PhoneView doesn't seem to do it).
Thanks in advance.

He can forward them to himself.
You might also check out TouchCopy or something like this, see if any of them saves sent POP mail:
http://homepage.mac.com/vaughn/msync/
For future reference: If using POP on the phone (which is not ideal), it's a good idea to BCC yourself on all sent mail, because of this problem. I also access POP accounts from both phone and desktop, which creates an archive on the desktop.
(POP is not really designed to be accessed from multiple devices, but it's been okay for me)

Ipad 3 How can I retrieve old sent messages?

How can I retrieve old sent messages which disappeared from my sent folder? I only have old sent messages until June 2014 and I need a message I sent in March 2014. I use a pop email client (godaddy). Any suggestions? Greetings, Harry

Unless you saved the email to a folder on your computer, it is most likely gone for good since it has disappeared from the sent folder in the mail app. Email messages are not stored in the backups so you cannot retrieve them that way either.

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> Take the USB disk to the new computer and do an “Import Mailbox” and select the copied Data file. There will be LOTS of folders that come up for import, you can browse through and deselect what you don’t need (e.g. trash or junk mail), OR just import everything and then clean up from your mailbox.
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For some reason when I look at my Sent mail folder it shows old mail sent today. In other words if I look at my send mail folder and all the mail Sent Date mail says Today there's 1 or 2 pieces of mail that also says Today but I orginally sent it in May. If you look at the header of the mail itself there is no sent date. I don't know if these are being resent or its just a bug in the app. and shows it in my mail folder.
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Thanks,
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You’re welcome.
It does certainly matter how the messages were sent because AFAIK .Mac webmail doesn’t set the Date header on the copy of messages sent that way that it puts in Sent. Neither Mail nor any other mail client can reliably determine the sent date of a message if that header is missing...
Messages sent with Mail have an X-Mailer header that says so when received. That header isn’t present in the copy of the message that Mail puts in Sent, but it can probably still be determined whether a message was sent with Mail or with webmail by looking at the full headers of the message (which you can see doing View > Message > Long Headers).
That said, it isn’t clear what your problem really is with the information you’ve provided. It could also be that you’re experiencing some index corruption and Mail is indeed resending some messages on its own. If you suspect that’s the case, you may proceed as follows.
Verify/repair the startup disk (not just permissions), as described here:
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3. Locate Envelope Index and move it to the Trash. If you see any other “Envelope Index”-named file there, delete it as well.
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5. Open Mail. It will tell you that your mail needs to be “imported”. Click Continue and Mail will proceed to re-create Envelope Index — Mail says it’s “importing”, but it just re-creates the index if the mailboxes are already in Mail 2.x format.
6. As a side effect of having removed the IMAP account folders, those accounts may be in an “offline” state now. Do Mailbox > Go Online to bring them back online.
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I have a problem with retrieving sent mails, drafts and all other from mail.
I am succeded in retrieving mails from inbox. please give me code for that
this my code for retrieving inbox from mail.
<%@page import="java.util.*,java.io.*,javax.mail.*,javax.mail.internet.*,javax.mail.search.*,javax.activation.*"%>
     <TABLE align="center">
     <tr>
     <td>
<%
String host = "pop.gmail.com";
          HttpSession hs=request.getSession(true);
final String user=(String)hs.getValue("usid");
final String password=(String)hs.getValue("pwd");
     String subjectSubstringToSearch = "";
try {
                    Properties props=new Properties();
               props.setProperty("mail.pop3.socketFactory.class", "javax.net.ssl.SSLSocketFactory");
props.setProperty("mail.pop3.socketFactory.fallback", "false");
props.setProperty("mail.pop3.port", "995");
props.setProperty("mail.pop3.socketFactory.port", "995");
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protected PasswordAuthentication getPasswordAuthentication() {
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                    </tr>
                    </table>
                    <br>
                    <table border="1">
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for(int i = 1; i <= count; i++) {
Message m = fldr.getMessage(i);
                         %>
                    <tr>
                         <%
Date date = m.getSentDate();
Address [] from = m.getFrom();
String subj = m.getSubject();
String mimeType = m.getContentType();
                         %>
<td size="35"><%out.print(date);%></td>
<td size="35">     <%out.print(from[0]);%></td>
<td size="35"><%out.print(subj);%></td>
<%}%>
                    </tr>
                    <tr>
                    <td>
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String pattern = subjectSubstringToSearch;
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out.println(found.length +
" messages matched Subject pattern \"" +
pattern + "\"");
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Message m = found;
Date date = m.getSentDate();
Address [] from = m.getFrom();
String subj = m.getSubject();
String mimeType = m.getContentType();
out.println(date + "\t" + from[0] + "\t" +
subj + "\t");
                         %>
                         </td>
                         <tr>
                         <td>
                         <%
                         out.println(mimeType);
%>
                         </td>
                    <td>
                         <%
Object o = m.getContent();
if (o instanceof String) {
out.println("**This is a String Message**");
out.println((String)o);
else if (o instanceof Multipart) {
out.print("**This is a Multipart Message. ");
Multipart mp = (Multipart)o;
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                              %>
                         </td>
                    <td>
                         <%
out.println("It has " + count3 +" BodyParts in it**");
for (int j = 0; j < count3; j++) {
BodyPart b = mp.getBodyPart(j);
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                                   %>
                         </td>
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out.println( "BodyPart " + (j + 1) +" is of MimeType " + mimeType);
%>
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else if (o2 instanceof InputStream) {
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out.println("**This is an InputStream BodyPart**");
else if (o instanceof InputStream) {
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ioex.printStackTrace();
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Ramesh,
To paraphrase [url http://asktom.oracle.com]Tom Kyte, "holy unreadable code, Batman!"
Code is much more readable if you put "[ code ]" and "[ /code ]" (without the spaces and quotes) around your code samples.
Seems to me this would be a function of how the email server you are connecting to works - perhaps there is a folder called "Sent Items" or "Drafts" that you can use in this line (note the code tags ;) :
Folder fldr = store.getFolder("INBOX");Not sure if this is possible via POP, but it is in IMAP. Hint: use google and search for:
javax.mail "sent items"
you'll get some helpful information. Nothing to do with JDeveloper here.
John

How do I move or archive large numbers of old Sent mail messages?

I've created folders for past years Sent mail and tried moving my messages out of my Sent folder (for several accounts). They seem to move, but then I get a very basic error (with no details..): "34 messages could not be moved to the mailbox "2009 Sent -- On My Mac" An error occured while moving messages to mailbox "2009 Sent -- On My Mac"
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I don't know what was happening but yesterday I went back and did the Export/Archive function and it ended up doing just as I expected, exporting the mailbox as an mbox format =finally!!! Not sure why it went haywire but all is fine now.

Very old 'Sent' mail missing from mailbox - help?

I've got a question about (really) old mail in my Sent mailbox. I went today to look for some very old messages (around 9/2001), and the earliest mail available to me is from Jan 1, 2003.
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Jim

Jim, I had thought that if you select Never as time after which sent mesages are deleted that they would stay saved on your hard drive.

Keeping and Viewing Old Sent Mail "On My Mac"?

This is a relatively minor question, but it would be useful to have answered. Actually, there are sort of two questions here.
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You are welcome. Sledge hammer approach.
Do a backup.
Quit Mail.
Go to Finder and select your user/home folder. With that Finder window as the front window, either select Finder/View/Show View options or go command - J. When the View options opens, check ’Show Library Folder’. That should make your user library folder visible in your user/home folder. Go to Library/Containers/com.apple.mail. Move the folder com.apple.mail to your desktop. You must move the entire folder, not just the contents.
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Hmeek wrote:
iPhone does not have many settings for POP email clients, which is what Verizon is. The options to set delete behavior and file locations exists only for IMAP mail, and Verizon is POP, not IMAP. And changing the incoming server settings DID cause my sent mail to disappear. It was reproduceable. As said before, it came back when I restored from backup -- even a backup that pre dated many of the sent messages, so they obviously didn't restore from the backup itself. (And Apple confirms that mail is not backed up in an itunes backup). Verizon keeps claiming that sent mails are not stored on their system, but where did they come from when they re-populated?
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