Dr Dave wrote: >What *really* happens when Mail Trash is emptied? >If the messages are not immediately deleted from the mail database, might >they be recoverable from the mail db?
The reference of the message is erased from the DB, but the message content is still present in the file until new messages are received. This means that you can't recover the message, but you may find its content by examining the message database file with a file editor like HexEdit. Jérôme - PowerMail Engineering --------------------------------------------------------------------- "PowerMail is a damn fine product. I hope CTM is charging enough to stay in business for a long time." Tom Dillon, PowerMail user Download a demo version from www.ctmdev.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------