Trying to retrieve old emails

I'm now faced with a court case and am desperately trying to find out if I can get a hold of my old emails that I've both sent and received. They have been deleted but I'm hoping someone knows how to find out if they have "really" been deleted or are they just hiding somewhere. Please help if you can!!!

"Since it was on their mail server, they had a copy. But again, there is no guarantee of how long they keep the copy"
SMTP servers only transfer mail and the "copy" remains in queue only as long as needed to pass it on to its destination. When served with court orders, ISPs can intercept and forward copies of messages to the appropriate law enforcement agency. (We use the same process to capture outgoing mail from our company for compliance reasons). But based on discussions with some email admins that work for ISPs, I "know" from support forums, it isn't standard practice in the industry to do this for all mail.
Earlier in the year I read that most ISPs were refusing the governments requests that they voluntarily keep copies of everything moving across their servers due to the massive storage requirements that would be needed. But that may have changed.
I agree that it's worth asking the ISP if they have a copies of the needed messages. But if the ISP in question only offers POP accounts, I'd bet good money they never had one.
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