Earlier today I posted my problem to many computer forums, mostly Mac. My mail is most certainly gone ... forever ... !!!
If I could afford the huge cost, I could take my computer in to a professional recovery services, but that could cost as much as $1,000 or more! I can't afford even the cost of a cheap recovery app.
Luckily, some of the deleted mail is still on my DreamHost server. All of that deleted mail that came through my ClearWire is already deleted.
I have over 27,000 (that's twenty seven thousand !!!) messages in the old-mail folder on just one of my DreamHost mail accounts to look through.
I've been able to find several dozen messages that I forwarded to my Mac Mail. Also, I did back up my Mac Mail back in 2007, so I was able to import those messages back into Mac Mail.
If only ..... everybody should listen to this, and I'm sure that some of you have heard and seen this before ....
I'm going to post a note by my computer, reminding me to back up my e-mail regularly, and I will start writing down names, and e-mail addresses in a notebook.
Another terrible thing happened, and this is a complete mystery .... My Address Book is completely empty ... !!! This is total disaster. I didn't write down all those contacts, so they are gone.