[G4] Mail Problem X.4.8 Mail 2.1

[S. Kennedy]

Wayne,

I can't help you with Mail and .Mac but one thing that I would recommend is to back up your Mail database in another email application.  Mail databases are prone to getting corrupted IMHO and I do this.  What I generally do now is to export my messages as mbox text files and import them into Thunderbird.  I would recommend something similar for anyone that needs to protect their messages.  When I was using Claris Emailer I backed up to eMA but eMA doesn't handle my current application.  Taking the trouble seems to almost guarantee no corruption and vice versa.

S. Kennedy




On Thu, 26 Oct 2006 16:58:39 -0400, Wayne Wilkin wrote:
> Ok so this morning I launched my Mac Email with my Dot Mac account 
> and 2 very important folders were missing. I thought that maybe I 
> could have deleted one but not both. I figured when I left and got to 
> job 2 I would look in my ~/Library/Mail folder to see if the folders 
> were their, they were. I made a copy of them to my desktop and then 
> launched Mail. The folders disappeared in the Mail program and also 
> in the ~/Library/Mail folder. I thought good thing I made a backup. I 
> went to go use the Import function in Mail and it wouldn't import, 
> said no valid mbox files were found. I then went into one of the 
> folders and double clicked on one of the messages and it opened right 
> up in Mail. So I figured, I'll just make a new folder within Mail 
> quit Mail, copy all the messages out of the backup and put them in 
> the ~/Library/Mail/Mac-macsys/Kronos.imapmbox. Relaunched Mail. No 
> dice, the messages are still in the location I copied them into on 
> the hard drive but do not show up in the Mail Program. This is truly 
> the strangest thing I have ever seen, well maybe not, but any help 
> with this would be appreciated. And before you ask, yes ran disk 
> utility, repaired permissions, diskwarrior, TCC, etc, no help. Thanks 
> in advance, Wayne.
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