I worked with Jan on this mail server before, and I know that tech. Sorry Jan, wracked my head over this one too.
Mail is particularly hard to recover via filesystem undeletion, since the mails are scattered as individual files in a directory tree. Deleting removes all hierarchy information from the files, so what you'll end up with is a bunch of nameless, orphaned text files - possibly hundreds, scattered in random locations through the disk. There probably is no way to tell which is which unless you do a system down and a manual filesystem scan for orphaned inode text that have the email addresses in question. I don't even know how to do that, and even then, there's no guarantee to recover. I'm not sure if a solution is possible, although that assistant deserves all the swear words he could get. I remember being particularly strict on him to always get permission on questionable actions... -- thing.
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