You'll need to backup ~/Library/Mail. Then you can restore that folder after recovering from the drive failure, fix the permissions appropriately, and it should work. On May 7, 2007, at 16:46, Xavier Noria wrote: > I've bought an external drive. If I simply drag the Mail folder > there could I recover my email with Mail.app in case of hard-disk > failure? > > -- fxn > > _______________________________________________ > X4U mailing list > X4U at listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/x4u > > Listmom is trying to clean out his closets! Vintage Mac and random > stuff: > http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZmacguy1984