[X4U] Re:Mail problem

[Stroller]

On Feb 26, 2005, at 11:11 pm, Michel Treisman wrote:

>  ...
> So I removed com.apple.mail.plist from User/Library/Preferences. Next 
> time Mail started up I re-entered all my preferences into 
> Mail/Preferences, just as they had been before. This worked fine for 
> two POP accounts I have, but not for my IMAP account. I can no longer 
> read email sent to that account.
>
> What seems to happen is that trashing the preferences and re-entering 
> them  seems to create a new folder in User/Library/Mail    called 
> IMAP-(my name)@(server). This sits side by side with the old folder 
> that is already there, also called IMAP-(my name)@(server) which has 
> all my old mail in it. 

They can't both be called the same thing!

> Emails I send to myself at the IMAP account now seem to go to the 
> Inbox in the old folder, but Mail.app (I’m guessing) looks for mail in 
> the Inbox in the new IMAP folder and doesn’t find any.

When I've deleted com.apple.mail.plist I've always removed the whole 
~/Library/Mail directory, but I don't have any POP3 mailboxes to worry 
about. Have you tried removing both the plist & ~/Library/Mail/IMAP* 
before restarting Mail.app? You don't need to worry about your old IMAP 
mailboxes, because all the messages in them will be stored on the 
server.

Stroller.