Accidentally deleted mail accounts

Hi I have accidentally deleted a few mailbox accounts and I am wondering if there is a way to recover them or do I have to create them from scratch?

the only thing that the time machine lets you restore, (at least to my knowledge and from the tries I have done thus far) are the mailboxes not the actual accounts.

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Accidentally deleted mail account. Recreated but inbox empty. Help!

I was unable to send from my talktalk mail account after upgrading win8 to win8.1. I reinstalled Thunderbird over the top of existing installation but problem remained. (I've checked server settings!).
In a fit of madness I deleted that mail account from Thunderbird having read in the forum that this doesn't delete the actual mail, just the account details. However, having recreated the talktalk mail account I can't find my emails! Help - some of these are fairly urgent.
Anyone able to help
a) recover the emails?
b) offer a solution to the original problem?
Hopefully,
Ted

Thanks for your interest! The server you specify IS the one showing in the account info but I don't know how to check which port is being used - I can't find it anywhere in Thunderbird. Also, the settings worked fine until the windows upgrade. I'm using Avast free antivirus so the windows firewall is turned off and can't be blocking the port.
In my panic at losing my emails I forgot that I'd saved them all using MozBackup (phew) and was able to reinstall all profiles so the only problem remaining is that Thunderbird states that, for an unknown reason, it is unable to send mail using the smtp server shown in the settings i.e. the correct ones.

How do I recover a deleted mail account and all associated contacts?

How do I recover a deleted mail account and all associated contacts?

Set it up again. If you didn't delete anything from the mail server, everything should sync right back up.

How can I recover accidentally deleted Mail folder?

How can I recover accidentally deleted Mail folder?

With no backup, you can't. The data is gone.

HT5361 Just now accidentally deleted email account. No warning appears and was deleted. Mail was not back up ed. Does exist any way how for Undo of this delete operation (need to recover mails and contacts there)

I just accidnetally deleted email account and there wa sno warining so it went through and I lost all my emails. The email was not Back up. Is there any way how this account could be recovered?

If the account was an IMAP account your emails should re-appear if you recreate the email account. If the account was POP you hopefully have backup (TIme Machine?) you can restore the emails from.

Accidentally deleted exchange account and lost contacts....please help

Hello all,
I have a unique problem and I'm worried that it may not be fixable but hopefully it is. Here is the long detailed explanation.
I was trying to start setup for an outlook account to sync my business emails to my phone (which I never got around to doing) I noticed that under mail/contacts etc. that there was an exchange account.....with it being early in the AM and still in bed I accidentally deleted it. I noticed immedietly after that my texts were coming in with numbers rather than contact names. I don't usually use the start mail (blue with white envelope) I had it archived away.....because I have the gmail app which was much more user friendly. Whoever set up the exchange account must have been at the verizon store when i bought the phone possibly. I did not do this myself. Anyways I have a few more problems that makes this issue worse....for some time now my iCloud has been saying it does not have the appropriate amount of storage......(And I assume is not backing up my contacts) I've never really had to use iCloud before so I think this may not help either. I looked on gmail and only certain contacts....older ones were on there. I went to a verizon store and he helped me re-add my exchange account which im assuming was through my gmail email (Only email I really use) and certain contacts seemed to pop up. After leaving the store I realized that a lot of the newer contacts I've added were still missing......I'm not sure what else I can do to recover these contacts if anything but I am now up for suggestion. This is basically where I'm at right now.....not totally missing everything but missing a good deal. Also would like to get my cloud up and running again so this doesn't happen again. I haven't hooked to iTunes yet but I never really did that regularly so that might not help either. Like I said I am up for any suggestion......maybe a way to look up my exchange account if by chance it wasn't under my gmail email account......Thanks in advance!
Sam

You might have luck in the iPhone community. I’ll ask the hosts to move your post there.
iPhone community

Deleted mail account - where to find deleted emails

Hi there
I have done the same stupid mistake others have done and accidentally deleted my mail account. I was trying to delete my gmail account in mail but selected my primary home email account instead.(I blame the computer) Thing is, it seems a 'partial' delete, in that this morning I still receive my incoming emails, ie the account settings are still there. Also all my sent emails, and trash from that account are still there. But as for the incoming emails for the past 5 years - nothing. And in library/mail there is no record of this account folder. Where does the deleted stuff go, if it doesn't go in the trash, and why did my deleted account action not wipe all the emails, incoming and outgoing, and not the account setup details in mail preferences? I am just curious because there is a small part of me that hopes somehow i can retrieve the emails from within the computer without having to pay for a data rescue program. (there would only be about 20 or so emails that we've need to keep for work purposes)

hi!
I have a question -- if I delete my mailbox in mail (one of them) -- which is my gmail personal account -- will it delete everything off Mail AND my gmail or just Mail Application? So hypothetically, if I delete the gmail account in Mac Mail and when I sign in that same email on gmail.com -- all my mail will still be there ?
I want to just have my work email on Mac Mail and I dont want my personal email on Mac Mail as well.
Thank you!

Mistakenly deleted mail account

I inadvertently deleted a pop mail account. Is there a way to access emails for that account using time machine or the backup folders it makes?

Hello dKalEl,
It sounds like you have accidentally deleted your POP email account, but if you have a Time Machine backup setup, you can get this information back! I found an article with the steps you will need:
If you set up Time Machine to back up files on your computer, your mailboxes and the messages and notes they contain have been backed up regularly. You can use Time Machine to quickly restore previous versions of a mailbox or messages.
Make sure Mail is the current application.
Click the Time Machine icon in the Dock.Time Machine displays the current state, indicated as Today (Now), of the selected mailbox in the foreground, with available backups in the background.
Use the arrows or the timeline along the right side of the screen to browse through the available backups.
Select a mailbox or one or more messages to restore, and then click Restore.Restored mailboxes and messages are organized in a Time Machine mailbox in On My Mac in the Mail sidebar.
You can find the full article here (the title says Lion, but these steps also work for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard):
Lion Mail: Restore mailboxes and their content
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH4812
You can find additional information about Time Machine here:
Mac Basics: Time Machine
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1427
Thank you for posting in the Apple Support Communities.
Best,
Sheila M.

Mail continues to ask me for password for deleted Mail account

Hey guys, I've deleted an old mail account in both the Mail application itself, as well as the Accounts folder in my system preferences. Nonetheless, Mail continues to ask me to type in the password for this old gmail account.
It's gotten so annoying that I'm not able to use mail anymore and have to use Thunderbird, which is ok, but I love how everything syncs.
A funny thing.... This is the computer that syncs with my iPhone 4s, and yet I have no issues with the mail accounts on the iPhone.
I imagine it's some old bit of data somewhere in the back of my system, but I don't know much about how these things work.
I can provide images of how my Accounts in system preferences works and how that compares to the error message if you need it. Also I can tell you anything else you need to know.
This problem is so annoying...can you help?
Adam

Hi, here's a link that helped me: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3981?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US
J

Adding and Deleting mail accounts

Hi all,
I have a 10.4.11 server running Mail services. I recently tried to add a user account for a new employee. The account was created without error, and the appropriate mailbox created, etc., etc. However whenever I tested logging in to webmail, I got the following error message:
"ERROR: Could not complete request.
Query: SELECT "INBOX"
Reason Given: System I/O error"
At the same time, in the console I get the following message:
"Aug 22 11:40:58 od-replica imap[10718]: IOERROR: opening /Volumes/DataMirror/mailserver/mail-store/user/monicatanksley/cyrus.header: No such file or directory
Aug 22 11:40:58 od-replica imap[10718]: IOERROR: opening /Volumes/DataMirror/mailserver/mail-store/user/monicatanksley/Deleted Messages/cyrus.header: No such file or directory
Aug 22 11:40:59 od-replica imap[10718]: IOERROR: opening /Volumes/DataMirror/mailserver/mail-store/user/monicatanksley/cyrus.header: No such file or directory"
I then went to delete the user account as I was under the impression that this also deletes the mail account. However the user entry is still in mailboxes.db. How am I to delete it completely so I can work on recreating this account?
TIA!
Andrew

You can use SirAdmin ( http://explanatorygap.net/2006/05/13/siradmin-a-gui-replacement-for-cyradm/ ) to delete IMAP accounts.
Alternatively, recreate it in WGM making sure you use the very same first shortname you did when you first created the account. When done, download mailbfr ( http://osx.topicdesk.com/tools/ ), install it and issue:
mailbfr -m username
(replace username with that first shortname - monicatanksley according to the log entry)
HTH,
Alex

24.5.0 - deleted mail account and have issues with a spurious New Folder

Hi
I have been messing around with my Thunderbird data, so this problem is of my own making I think.
I deleted an email account using my provider setup area. This was an email account I had set up at the start when joining this provider and contained only test messages etc. and so was of no further use.
I had set up this email address in Thunderbird and after deleting the account with my provider I then removed the account in Thunderbird. All seemed to be OK.
Now, to confuse matters. I had previously set up a list of folders under Local Folders for filtered email in Thunderbird - I now moved them up into my main account by click/drag/drop onto the account name. Although this took a very long time (and unexpectedly used an enormous amount of bandwidth), the operation finally seemed to finish (although that was really hard to determine until I finally found the Activity Monitor).
Now, for the point of this posting:
After all of the above, I discovered that a spurious folder had been created under the INBOX of my main account, called 'New%20Folder=0' which I read as New Folder-0. I don't know at what point in the above that this folder appeared, but I *think* I must have dragged/dropped one of my folder moves on the INBOX instead of the account name field.
Now, dear readers, if you have got thus far, the crux of my problem. I can not delete this folder, when I try, I get the message
The current operation on 'New%20folder-0' did not succeed. The mail server for account ******* responded folder does not exist.
I have tried a whole bunch of things, altering settings in its Properties etc but nothing lets me delete it.
Question is: how can I delete it?

I would:
a) check on the email provider's website to check if it had copied there, and deal with it. Your mention of bandwidth implies this is an IMAP-connected account.
b) close Thunderbird, open its [https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profiles-tb?esab=a&s=profiles&r=1&as=s profile] and delete the offending folder there. You need to browse your profile for a while to understand its structure before doing anything rash.
On the whole, I discourage users from dragging folders about as you have done. By all means drag the ''contents'' (better yet, use multi-select, then right-click and "copy to" or "move to") but moving ''folders'' is IMHO an undefined operation with unpredictable outcomes. I've heard of users moving a folder from one account to another and finding that it still associates with (i.e. "belongs to") the original account.

Deleted Mail Account Still Sending Mail

Hi Apple World,
Can anyone explain to me why an old gmail account which I used to have as an account on my Mac is still sometimes coming up as the from address when I send mail?
This has got me in some trouble as people have been "replying" and I have not received it as it goes to my gmail which I do not use. So my boss now thinks I just havent replied! I checked my sent box and sure enough it says sent from [email protected] however the only account I have are a [email protected] and my icloud account.
I have deleted the gmail account entirely from google but can anyone explain how this may have happened as I have deleted other accounts off my mail and would like to make sure I don't have to worry about them.
Cheers,
Linda

stevenarichards wrote:
There is no account, so I cannot find a smtp server. Where do I find it in ML?

My ipad had a message saying it wasn't backed up and so I used my iPhone went to iCloud and instead of backing up I accidentally deleted ipad account now I am stuck with the message in my ipad and can't back it up

My ipad had a message saying it wasn't backed up. So I went to iCloud on my phone but instead of backing up I accidentally deleted my ipad account from my iCloud now I am stuck with ipad with the message and can't back up. Can someone please tell me what can I do.

On the iPad... Perform a Reset...
Reset ( No Data will be Lost )
Press and hold the Sleep/Wake button and the Home button at the same time for at least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears. Release the Buttons.
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1430

Recovery of deleted mail account

I accidently deleted a Mail account in the Mail application. As a result I have "lost" all the emails associated with that account.
Is there an easy way to recover those emails if I know the name of the folder that held those files? And if I don't know the name?
Thanks
Harry

Before deleting an email account in Jaguar or Panther Mail, the following warning message is provided (the warning message with Tiger Mail is slightly different):
Are you sure you want to remove the account “XXXXXXXXX”?
This will erase all mailboxes for this account, but will not affect any messages stored on your mail server.
This is sometimes ignored or not completely understood but is based on the Mail.app filing structure so now the long winded answer for the reason.
Many other email clients utilize a single large database file which is not dependent on individual account and associated mailbox filing.
When creating an account in Mail, an account named folder (named by the user name and incoming mail server for the account) is created in the Mail folder at Home > Library > Mail using the Finder. For POP type accounts, the following mailbox (mbox) files are created within the account named folder when the function is used by the account: INBOX.mbox, Drafts.mbox, Sent Messages.mbox, Deleted Messages.mbox and Junk.mbox (when Junk mail is set to automatic). The mbox files within the account named folder represent the account named mailboxes under In, Drafts, Sent, Trash and Junk (when Junk mail is set to automatic) in the Mail.app mailboxes drawer.
When deleting an account in Mail, the account named folder at Home > Library > Mail is deleted at that time and as the warning message indicates, the associated account mailboxes within the account named folder are also deleted. You must select OK after the warning message appears.
It would be preferable for the account named folder to be moved to the hard drive Trash can which requires an additional step to delete but this is not what occurs.
Your options are not very promising.
To have any hope of recovering your data, you need to immediately stop using your system and then purchase a copy of a recovery tool such as Tech Tool Pro (Micromat) or Data Rescue (Prosoft Engineering), both of which have data recovery tools. You can download a free trial version of Data Rescue from Prosoft Engineering's website. I've not used Data Rescue, but I've seen reports that it recovers files that the others cannot, so it might be your best hope. The chances generally aren't really good even so, but short of sending your drive to a data recovery service (expensive), such utilities are your only hope.
Note that the more you use your system before you attempt recovery, the more likely it is that the system will overwrite the sections of the drive where the data you want to recover is stored, rendering it unrecoverable by any means. You should therefore stop using the system completely until you get and try to use one of the file recovery tools.
This also emphasizes the importance of maintaining a regular backup of all important data.

Can't delete mail account in Leopard

Trying to help my mom out and got things a little twisted up.
She was having mail issues (passwords etc) so rather then messing with all the random settings I decided to delete the account and then re-enter it so it auto-fills everything. Only problem was that when I hit the delete button it removed the account and all the stuff from the inbox etc but then popped up a messages saying something like "are you sure you want to do this as deleting everything will be lost". Something along those lines. I wasn't sure what it was talking about so I hit cancel to stop it.
Now it seems to be gripping onto that mail account half way. I can close the email program and reopen and then account shows up again in the list of accounts. If I remove it (no messages pop up) then it disappears and about 10 seconds later I get a popup message saying that the mail accounts password is wrong? Though there is no accounts listed and I've even deleted all the passwords from keychain etc. If I enter a password it does nothing (I know I have the right password).
Then, if I close mail and reopen the account is listed in the preferences again automaticly? I keep deleting it but it keeps popping back in but with no emails etc and a bunch of password etc popups bugging me. I can't seem to ADD the account again either as it just comes up with an error I think because that account is halfway in the mail app somehow.
Is there anyway to manually remove any trace of this account from the mail app or something so that I can re-add it fresh?
Thanks!

Could be many things, we should start with this...
"Try Disk Utility
1. Insert the Mac OS X Install disc, then restart the computer while holding the C key.
2. When your computer finishes starting up from the disc, choose Disk Utility from the Installer menu at top of the screen. (In Mac OS X 10.4 or later, you must select your language first.)
*Important: Do not click Continue in the first screen of the Installer. If you do, you must restart from the disc again to access Disk Utility.*
3. Click the First Aid tab.
4. Select your Mac OS X volume.
5. Click Repair Disk, (not Repair Permissions). Disk Utility checks and repairs the disk."
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214
Then try a Safe Boot, (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, reboot when it completes.
(Safe boot may stay on the gray radian for a long time, let it go, it's trying to repair the Hard Drive.)
If saving the old Mails is important...
On Mail...
First Quit Mail, then I'd backup these two Mail folders, by right clicking on them in the Finder, then choose Archive/Compress.
Users/YourUserName/Library/Mail
Users/YourUserName/Library/Mail Downloads
(Could be a different folder here if you chose such in Mail Prefs)
Right click on that Mail folder, choose archive, you'll get everything in the folder, and the folder itself in a file called Mail.zip, move it to a safe place, same for the Mail Downloads folder... only the plist is separate.
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist

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