Yahoo has been known for its strict policy on deleting emails, but it’s not clear how long the company keeps deleted emails. A spokesperson for Yahoo told The Huffington Post in a statement that the company “does not keep any deleted emails.” However, a cached version of Yahoo’s website shows that the company has been deleting emails for at least six months.
– We are constantly innovating, but that does not mean we have forgotten our roots. We understand the need to preserve privacy and security, so when you delete a message from your Yahoo account it is deleted permanently – this includes messages in Trash as well.
Yahoo offers a secure Yahoo Mail service with no advertisements so that we can focus on providing the best possible email experience for our users. Yahoo Mail can be accessed from Yahoo.com, Yahoo! Apps for iOS and Android , Yahoo!, Gmail, AOL Mail or Windows Live Hotmail .
– If you want to delete your Yahoo account but still save the messages in it so that they are not lost forever then read on below. Yahoo keeps deleted emails for a period of time.
Yahoo offers
– Log in to Yahoo with your account information
– Click on ‘Recover Deleted Emails’ from the main menu of Yahoo Mail
– Select how many days back you’d like Yahoo’s system to search and then click ‘Search’. If successful, these will be your recovered message(s).
– Yahoo might not have all of your old emails, so it’s important that you check if they’re in another Yahoo account or on an email provider such as Gmail, Outlook (Hotmail), etc.
