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Can I find emails that were composed / sent / deleted in Hotmail?
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| We use Firefox, and one of our business email accounts is with Hotmail. An
employee recently had an email exchange with a vendor using that account,
and I really need the details of that exchange.
I noticed that some of the emails were maintained in the sidebar History
listing. However, many of the emails were not there, and I noticed (too
late) that after I'd reviewed an item in the History listing, it would not
show up the next time I opened the History.
What are my options - if any - for retrieving these emails? By the way,
they were written/received within the last 30 days.
Thank you,
jm
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| Leonidas Jones 2007-04-29, 1:12 am |
| JM wrote:
> We use Firefox, and one of our business email accounts is with Hotmail. An
> employee recently had an email exchange with a vendor using that account,
> and I really need the details of that exchange.
>
> I noticed that some of the emails were maintained in the sidebar History
> listing. However, many of the emails were not there, and I noticed (too
> late) that after I'd reviewed an item in the History listing, it would not
> show up the next time I opened the History.
>
> What are my options - if any - for retrieving these emails? By the way,
> they were written/received within the last 30 days.
>
> Thank you,
>
> jm
Firefox is a web browser, not a mail client.
If the emails were accessed via Firefox, the messages are all stored on
the Hotmail server. Firefox can view them but not download them. Log
into the Hotmail webmail interface, and all these emails should be there.
Lee
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"Leonidas Jones" <Cap1MD@att.net> wrote in message
news:SPUYh.86788$VU4.18306@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...
> JM wrote:
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> Firefox is a web browser, not a mail client.
I do understand that.
> If the emails were accessed via Firefox, the messages are all stored on
> the Hotmail server.
That's correct. But when you access and read an email message on a web
based email system, a copy of that email is cached on your computer.
I was hoping there was a utility - short of expensive computer forensics
software - that could extract those cached copies.
thank you,
jm
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| Miller 2007-04-29, 7:11 pm |
| *JM* wrote on 29.04.07 17:18:
> That's correct. But when you access and read an email message on a web
> based email system, a copy of that email is cached on your computer.
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> I was hoping there was a utility - short of expensive computer forensics
> software - that could extract those cached copies.
You could type into Firefox' Addressbar: about :cache?device=disk
If you know the filetype of the cached emails you can search for
them using Ctrl+F
HTH, M.
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| John Thompson 2007-04-29, 7:11 pm |
| On 2007-04-29, JM <jakem38671omitthis@yahoo.com> wrote:
> "Leonidas Jones" <Cap1MD@att.net> wrote in message
> news:SPUYh.86788$VU4.18306@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...
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> I do understand that.
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> That's correct. But when you access and read an email message on a web
> based email system, a copy of that email is cached on your computer.
Search your web cache for pertinent text, e.g. in *nix, cd to your cache
directory and try "grep -i whomever@whatever.com" to find files
containing that aparticular email address.
> I was hoping there was a utility - short of expensive computer forensics
> software - that could extract those cached copies.
I'm not aware of any such beast. If you were using a regular (POP3 or
IMAP) mail client this wouldn't be an issue.
--
John (john@os2.dhs.org)
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