Examples of Mail Data Corruption
Mail data could be lost in one of the following ways:
- Deletion and cleanup of large mail folder, mailbox, inbox, outbox, etc, and not recoverable by other commercial email recovery software
- Mail data got corrupted due to system crash
- Deletion of user profile resulting in lost of email
- Unable to open mail folder or mail box
- Mail data size exceeds the allowed size limit (such as the infamous 2 GB limit in Microsoft Outlook PST mail or Entourage Mail database)
- Partial overwrite of disk data resulting in partial or complete lost of mail folders
- Deletion of mail data followed by de-fragmentation
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