Need to recover messages after rebuild

Question

I was getting the downloaded message error in my inbox, so I hit the rebuild button and all my messages disappeared. I saw in your a few apple discussion forums that there was a way to recover them. I have moved my inbox to my desktop and the package content sizes are:
content_index - 1 MB
mbox - 1.13GB
tableofcontents - 4kb
Obviously there is still something in there. How can I get these inbox messages back? Please help.

Answer 1

Fabrizio,
You are likely a candidate for the mailbox splitter script that I can send you, by email (and may still have a link, but not sure). First read the User Tip at:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=121837
and the link within, which is repeated, below:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25812
In addition to the script, there would be a way to import the mailbox into Mail 2.0.5 and split, but this would require some special knowledge to then export the two or more replacement mailboxes back into Mail 1.3.11 format, but I know how to do this.
If you want the script you will need to email me, at my address found in the bio line of my Profile (click on my name to access). To be able to send, you need to set this Sent Messages.mbox aside, and let Mail create a new Sent mailbox. This old one will have to be split into several new mailboxes, anyway, and this can be done while it is on the Desktop.
Ernie