Can You Recover Messages After a Temporary Inbox Is Purged?
Once the owned data graph has been physically purged, MailOnce has no application recovery path for those deleted rows.
After purge, recovery is the wrong expectation
Once the owned data graph has been physically purged, MailOnce has no application recovery path for those deleted rows.
Physical purge ends app recovery
After eligible data is physically deleted from the database, the application has no recovery route for those deleted rows. Operational backup restoration is an infrastructure recovery matter, not a user-facing inbox restore feature.
For MailOnce Free, expiry or deletion closes the address first. Closed inbox data is retained for exactly 24 hours before it becomes eligible for hard purge by the cleanup worker.
Keep closure and physical purge separate
This is a bounded retention-and-purge policy, not instant deletion at the second the timer reaches zero and not permanent storage. There is currently no public immediate-purge endpoint and no Plus/account retention policy implemented in this phase.
Once the owned data graph has been physically purged, MailOnce has no application recovery path for those deleted rows.
The practical takeaway
The useful privacy model is precise: active use, logical closure, 24-hour closed-data retention, then eligible physical purge. Once the owned data graph has been physically purged, MailOnce has no application recovery path for those deleted rows.
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