What do you mean by 'compacted' the mail box ??American Zombie said:You may be able to recover them if you do not compact the mailboxes. If you have compacted the mailboxes then the messages are most likely gone forever.
Do a search - recover deleted outlook express mail
Lots of utilities available for this purpose and some are free.
LeeJend said:Every so often outlook pops up a message that asks if you want to archive your email. It compresses the data file if you say yes. You can also set it to autoarchive (compresses them automatically).