E-mail files that have been permanently deleted retain their recoverability for 30 days after they’ve been purged, but only an admin can use an eDiscovery search in Office 365 to find them.

You can recover files or emails from the “Recoverable Items” folder if you delete them from the “Deleted Items” folder. This is where Outlook stores permanently deleted material, emails, and events. … In Outlook, go to the Folder tab and select Recover Deleted Items. To retrieve all of your selected items, click Recover Selected Items

After you erase your Gmail messages, they are automatically removed from your Trash Bin for 30 days. So there’s no way to recover them if you erased them permanently from the Trash Bin OR if Google deleted them automatically after 30 days.

Deleted messages are moved to the Trash folder when you erase messages in Outlook. This directory continues to consume space on your computer’s hard drive and if your account is set up to leave copies of messages on the mail server, in your account mailbox if it has one.

Messages can be manually retrieved or erased before the 30-day period is up. Purging an email from your account is a two-step procedure. … A message’s data are deleted permanently when it is moved to the Recoverable Items folder, which is hidden from view. After that, you must delete the text of the message from your Recoverable