[Cube] mail problems

[Laurie A Duncan]

On 10/19/04 11:35 PM, "ACZ" <aseiz at optonline.net> wrote:

> Perhaps you cube geniuses know how to solve this one.
> 
> I was having email problems with one account, so rather than editing, I
> decided to delete the account and create a new one using the same name,
> same data. Well, guess what. When I deleted the account (in Mail
> preferences), I also seem to have deleted all the email associated with
> that account. Any ideas about how to recover those missing emails?
> There's quite a lot of stuff in there I didn't want to lose! Thanks!

When clicking the "minus" button in the bottom of the Mail.app > Preferences
> Accounts list dialog, you are presented with this message:

> Are you sure you want to remove the account ³Your Name²?
> 
> This will erase all mailboxes for this account, but will not affect any
> messages stored on your mail server.

You can look in  ~/Library/Mail to see if any of your mailboxes are still
there, but I believe once they are deleted from Mail.app, they are gone.

Laurie
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