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Knowledge base Restore an email account (recover deleted emails)

    Restore an email account (recover deleted emails)

    This guide explains how to recover recently lost emails, especially in case of accidental deletion by the user.

     

    Preamble

    • Infomaniak backs up the content of each email address once a day (usually early in the morning).
    • It is therefore possible to restore the mailbox as it was by going back to the day of the backup.
    • RECOVERED ELEMENTS:
      • Emails no longer existing when you request the restoration will be returned to their original location.
      • Some settings related to your email address ("answering machine" part and "redirection" part, among others) will also be restored if they have changed in the meantime.
    • NON-RECOVERED ELEMENTS:
      • Emails moved (to a subfolder, including the trash) and not deleted will not necessarily reappear in the expected place since they still exist somewhere in the email account hierarchy - you need to search for them.
      • The backup restoration does not include the calendar or the address book.
      • Emails not yet present or no longer existing at the time of the daily backup (also see the POP3 chapter below); example:
        • Restoration of a backup (dated 5 AM) requested at 10 AM to recover an email that arrived at 8 AM and that the user accidentally deleted at 8:05 AM, while emptying the trash at 9 AM.
        • This email arrived at 8 AM, so it was not yet present in the 5 AM backup.‍
    • NON-MODIFIED ELEMENTS:
      • Emails received, created, and stored in the various folders (e.g., sent messages) during the interval (between the date you want to go back to and the date you perform the restoration) are not affected; they remain present.

     

    Backup Retention Period

    Once a complete backup of your mailbox has been made, Infomaniak makes it available to you for a certain number of days depending on your offer:

    • my kSuite = 7‍ | my kSuite+ = 30‍
    • kSuite Standard 1 user max. = 30‍ | kSuite Standard 2 users min. = 30‍ | kSuite Pro = 30‍ | kSuite Enterprise = 30‍
    • Service Mail Starter = 7‍ | Service Mail 5 addresses min. = 7‍

    By upgrading a my kSuite offer, it is possible to recover a backup up to 30 days even if the 7 days have passed at the time of the offer change.

    Also refer to this other guide regarding the limits of message retention.

     

    Restore from the Infomaniak Web Mail App

    Prerequisites

    • Ensure that the deletion occurred less than 7 days ago (or within the timeframe included with your offer - see above).
    • Have permission to manage backups: if you had been invited to the Mail Infomaniak Web app (online service mail.infomaniak.com) to manage your address, it is possible that the Mail Service manager has revoked this right from their admin account.

    To restore emails:

    1. Click here to access the Mail Infomaniak Web app (online service mail.infomaniak.com).
    2. Check or select the email address concerned in the dropdown menu of the left sidebar.
    3. Click on Advanced actions.
    4. Click on Restore:
    5. Choose a Restoration date.
    6. Click on Restore emails.
    7. Once the restoration is complete, an informational email is sent.

     

    Restore from the Mail Service

    Prerequisites

    • Be Administrator or Legal representative‍ within the Organization that manages the Mail Service.
    • Ensure that the deletion occurred less than 7 days ago (or within the timeframe included with your offer - see above).

    To restore emails from a Mail Service:

    1. Click here to access the management of your product on the Infomaniak Manager (need help?).
    2. Click directly on the name assigned to the product in question.
    3. Click on the email address in question in the table that appears.
    4. Click on the button Actions on the address at the very top right.
    5. Click on Restore emails:
    6. Choose a Restoration date.
    7. Click on Restore emails.
    8. Once the restoration is complete, an informational email is sent to you.

     

    Emails placed in the trash

    Unless otherwise configured, an email deleted by the user is moved to a trash folder, and it is only after a delay of several days or weeks that the trash is automatically emptied (it can also be emptied by a user click). Therefore, during a restoration operation:

    • Emails currently in the trash will remain as they are, regardless of the restoration date.
    • Emails deleted from the trash will be restored to their original location, where they were when they were deleted (whether in the inbox folders, or in the trash).

     

    Emails placed in non-conventional folders

    If you intentionally store your messages in folders with unusual names (for example, folders named Junk or Spam) take note of the important information in this other guide.

     

    Email software/client configured in POP3

    If you are used to checking your email with software/email client like Outlook and the latter is configured with the POP / POP3 protocol, it will not be possible to restore everything since the backup is done once a day, it only keeps the messages that were at the time of the backup in the Infomaniak inbox; the same goes for your other folders (Sent Messages for example) present in the POP3 application: these are not synchronized with Infomaniak and therefore are not backed up; it is therefore necessary in the future to prefer the IMAP protocol in your email software/client.



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