While I agree that Apple Mail may be dragon poo (tee hee), I added my .mac address doing as you said and all my mail was still there. Then I myself deleted it cause I have not opened the program for ages. I am running 10.2.3 Birgit > Hello again, > > I have finally managed to pin down the Bug in Apple Mail : > > - Go to Mail > Preferences > - In the Accounts pane, click on your account and Modify > - Modify the email address field (the one under "description") - for > example add another address or delete the address > - Click OK > - Close Preferences > > If your Mac is like mine (G4 EMac running 10.2.3) then all the messages > in your InBox will have disappeared - "poooof". And they are gone > forever. > > Does anybody know how I can get them back ? > > Sorry Apple, but your Mail software is still a big piece of dragon > poo...