>What *really* happens when Mail Trash is emptied? > >Is it Marked as "deleted"? Or it is actually erased from the mail >database immediately?
It is still in the database somewhere, _but_ once you compact the database it's gone forever. This is why the database size doesn't immediately shrink after emptying the Mail Trash. >If the messages are not immediately deleted from the mail database, might >they be recoverable from the mail db? Ben Kennedy's PowerMail Salvage <http://www.zygoat.ca/products/pmsalvage/ > might pick it out, but if you know who the friend was, it might be easier to ask him or her to resend the e-mail as they likely have a copy still lying around. Chris --
