"lost" emails? (computer, remove, Android, ATT)

[Cindi Waters]

Can someone remove an email with an attachment on a recipient's mailbox? I received an email plus an attachment (pdf) and now I can't find it. I wonder if I accidentally removed it, or the sender removed it. Not a company but from an individual.

[reed303]

1. did you save it to a folder somewhere ?

2. did you check the Trash ?

3. Highly unlikely sender has capability to remove it once it was sent.

[Ed_RDNC]

You would get more, and more helpful responses if you provided some details:
What is the make and model of your phone? What OS does it run? (Apple, Android?)
What email app does your phone use? The default that came with it, or perhaps another you installed.

Here are some suggestions, based on what phones I know.
If your phone is an Android OS, running the default Google Mail, then:

Go to a computer's browser, (or another phone's browser), log into the Google Account that is the one used by your phone. Go to Google Mail. You may see all your emails (and attachments) there.
- Some people may set their phone email apps to download the email & attachments and then delete those off the Google Mail account, but I think most don't bother.
- Some Android phones may be set so that if an email (and/or the attachment) is deleted from the phone, then Google Mail synchronization settings will also delete them from the on-line account copies. I don't know if that's the factory default or not. But it's worth the 2 minutes to go check.

- Once logged into your Google Account's mail section, if you don't see it, take a look at it's Trash directory. The Google on-line Mail default is to delete something by putting it in the "trash", where it stays for (I think) 30 days before being actually, finally, for-real, no-kidding, deleted.