All messages lost from Mail

My computer lead got caught and crashed my computer. When I re-opened Mail all my messages had disappeared. All settings are still there and I;m able to send and receive email without any problem, but all my archived email and trash mail have gone.
I'd really appreciated any help to try to resolve this and get my mail back.

Try deleting the account and then add it back.

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A friend of mine running OSX 10.4.11 with all Apple updates on an Intel iMac about a year and half old, is having problems with Mail. She seems to have lost all her Sent messages from before Jan. 24th. As she put it: "Came in on 1/25, to find only three message left in my sent messages" dating 1/24." She's using an IMAP account, and a broadband Ethernet DSL modem.
Personally I rarely use Mail, preferring Mailsmith/POP, so am not that familiar with the app - or with IMAP. After looking up Mail Help I suggested she first rebuild the Sent folder and instructed her how to do that over the phone. It went through it's paces but didn't improve the situation. Sent mailbox still only contains messages dating from Jan.24th. There should be several years of Sent messages in that box.
Then I had her try the next thing on the Help page, which was reindexing Mail, done by quitting Mail, removing certain files from the ~/Library/Mail folder, launching Mail and waiting for it to retrieve stuff from the server. That didn't solve the problem either. The other mailboxes seem to have all their messages intact, and the Mail app seems to be working normally otherwise. She hasn't done a backup since the problem occurred, but restoring from that would eliminate all the mail she has received since.
I'd greatly appreciate any other suggestions on how to get her missing messages back.
thanks,
ncm

Hopefully someone with more knowledge will pitch in. In my friend's case it isn't a dot mac account.
Could it be related to the allocated space on the server being too full? There are several years of email stored there and it's an office, so I imagine there's a lot of mail. Not being very familiar with IMAP I don't know if the stored mail could get messed up if there isn't much room left on the server.

I just opened my mail on icloud and all messages disappeared from the last year! I have one email left in my inbox which is the most recent. I moved to icloud 2 weeks ago and it has been working fine until now. How can I retrieve old messages? Thank you.

i just opened my mail on icloud and all messages disappeared from the last year! I have one email left in my inbox which is the most recent. I moved to icloud 2 weeks ago and it has been working fine until now. How can I retrieve old messages? Thank you.

I guess you could try but I don't believe Apple can help with activation lock issues. They may, however, be able to determine if the Apple ID belongs to one of you and reset the password for you if you can prove your identity.
You might want to try calling Apple by going to https://expresslane.apple.com; click 'More Products and Services, then 'Apple ID'. In the next page select 'Other Apple ID Topics' then 'Lost or forgotten Apple ID password'. Perhaps they can help determine if it's your ID and reset the password for you (and they probably have more expertise in doing this than the Apple store).

How can I make a rule to mark all messages sent to Mail Trash as Read?

How can I make a rule to mark all messages sent to Mail Trash as Read?
When I look at some emails on my phone, I can see from the title that I don't need to read the email so I delete it without opening it. When I go to my Macbook Pro and open mail, the number of unread messages in my Trash shows next to the name. It drives me nuts. Can I just set a rule to mark all messages sent to trash as read? If that isn't possible, I'd take just making the number not show beside the Trash folder.

Just in the case that I actually do need to go back to them for some reason. I have some OCD tendencies which is also why the number beside the folder drives me nuts.

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hello,
i'm having problems retrievieng all message id's from queue using APPQ_MIB. Point
is that i can't get cursor variable work. Somebody possibly has working example
or knows how it is done in qmadmin? I'm using Tuxedo 8.0.

The default CURSORHOLD time is 120 seconds. Are you making your second
request within that time? And make sure that you change TA_OPERATION to
GETNEXT.
Janis Kovalevskis wrote:
Actually there is no debugging required it is enough to use ud32. I created sample
file (see attach), where is what i'm sending to MIB. For Part 1 everything is
fine- i get first ~200 message id's and cursor variable, but when i send Part
2 (substituting TA_CURSOR with returned value) nothing happens. Returned buffer
is something like:
TA_ERROR     0
TA_MORE     0
TA_OCCURS     0
TA_CLASS     T_APPQMSG
You can even send cursor variable TA_CURSOR like: "..TMIB0: 0x99999999" and same
response will be returned.
It seems T_APPQMSG is just ignoring those cursors and thats all. Any ideas?
Scott Orshan <[email protected]> wrote:
I think it would be easier for us to debug what you have than to write
a
new example from scratch. Please post a code sample that is not working
for you. Make sure you use GETNEXT is you are using the cursor.
     Scott Orshan
Janis Kovalevskis wrote:
hello,
i'm having problems retrievieng all message id's from queue using APPQ_MIB.Point
is that i can't get cursor variable work. Somebody possibly has workingexample
or knows how it is done in qmadmin? I'm using Tuxedo 8.0.------------------------------------------------------------------------
-- Part 1 --
SRVCNM     .TMIB
TA_CLASS     T_APPQMSG
TA_OPERATION     GET
TA_LMID     SITE1
TA_QMCONFIG     /ora4/iia/cfg/QUE
TA_APPQSPACENAME     QSPACE
TA_APPQNAME     STIP_ISS_SAF
TA_CURSORHOLD     300
-- Part 2 --
SRVCNM     .TMIB
TA_CLASS     T_APPQMSG
TA_OPERATION     GETNEXT
TA_CURSOR     ..TMIB0: 0x12345678
TA_CURSORHOLD     300

Strange error message coming from mail

I'm getting this weird error message from mail and it's very random. " The mail server denied access to the account because an administrator or other mail client was using it when mail tried to login. Internal login failure" I dont have any other mail client checking my mail. I'm using pop3. If anybody has some information on this it would help.

Keith
Warren Brodt here... I just sign on with comcast.net and have the same problem with Mail
I know I have the server correctly identified. I can receive mail but not send it. Have you had any
luck fixing the problem? Could you share the solution if you did?
Warren

All settings lost on Mail and Safari

I walked away from my computer for about 10 minutes, and when I came back to check my email, I found that all my account settings were reset, and all my bookmarks, etc. gone in Safari. Any ideas why this would happpen? I am in New England with this big storm going on, would that have anything to do with it?

Not sure what the situation is now. Is your mail really gone from ~/Library/Mail/? Hasn’t it “reappeared” there, just like some of your settings?
The only thing that’s usually necessary in cases such as yours, after having fixed all the filesystem issues, is to re-create or restore com.apple.mail.plist using one of the following procedures:
(1) Restore ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist from a backup if you have one. Mail shouldn’t be running while you do this.
(2) Set up your mail accounts again. If given the option to import existing mailboxes or something like that, don’t. Just enter the account information and Mail will automagically rediscover the data in ~/Library/Mail/ when done. You’ll also have to re-configure most of your settings in Mail > Preferences. For spam-related security reasons, the first thing you should do is go to Preferences > Viewing and disable Display remote images in HTML messages if it’s enabled.
(3) Mail may have renamed the old preferences file to com.apple.mail.plist.saved. If that’s the case, you may trash the new com.apple.mail.plist and rename the old com.apple.mail.plist.saved back to com.apple.mail.plist. Again, be sure Mail isn’t running while doing this. Since Mail decided to discard it, I would expect this file to be corrupt (I don’t understand why would Mail discard it and create a new one otherwise), but apparently that often is not the case and the settings can indeed be restored by just renaming the file.
If your mail is gone from ~/Library/Mail/, however (something I find hard to believe, as you apparently didn’t have serious filesystem issues), and it’s not on the server, then you’ll have to either restore it from a backup or try to salvage as many deleted *.emlx files as possible with a data recovery tool such as Data Rescue II, TechTool Pro, or FileSalvage. Of these, the only one I know for sure that can currently recover deleted *.emlx files is FileSalvage. Stop using your computer right now if you want to try that, as anything you do with the computer may cause the deleted files to be overwritten.
Note: For those not familiarized with the ~/ notation, it refers to the user’s home folder, i.e. ~/Library is the Library folder within the user’s home folder.

Messages vanishing from Mail

For about two weeks now when my wife sends a message to my me.com account from her me.com account her message appears in my inBox for about 2 seconds and then vanishes - not to be found in trash or anywhere. I am using Mail in the latest version of Mavericks.
Quite a puzzle and I would appreciate any suggestions. This only happens when it is sent from her me.com to my me.com account.

With that version of OSX and Mail, there would be no Attachments folder with any POP account's mbox folder. Don't worry about that, as it is a fully redundant archive.
Do you only have POP accounts?
What you are going to have to do is to create some On My Mac mailboxes, and then in the Finder, move batches of the xxxxx.emlx files from the Messages folder into similar Messages folders in enough On My Mac mailboxes so that no one Messages folder exceeds 2 GB. This is because at 2 GB, Mail may not be able to index the messages in a single xxxxx.mbox folder.
Once you have created the On My Mac mailboxes in Mail, you must then Quit Mail. In the Finder, you will find those On My Mac mailboxes within the Mailboxes folder found within the Mail folder. You may have to create the Messages folder in each, if Mail does not do that at the moment of creation.
Once you have distributed the xxxx.emlx files across these new mailboxes, then also in the Finder, at the root level of the Mail folder, remove the Envelop Index files (may be more than one due to indexing failures, btw). then Relaunch Mail and allow it reindex all these messages in all these new mailboxes. See:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mail/4.0/en/14019.html
Pay no attention to its being for Lion, as this has not changed since Leopard (10.5.8). Especially note that IMAP and Exchange account folder, if any, must be removed before doing this.
Got to go out for awhile, so if any questions, ask and I will address, later.
Ernie

IPad upgrading to iPad2- all messages lost after restore.

I couldn't find this anywhere, but I thought I saw someone talking about it a couple of weeks ago.
I have an iPad and just got my new iPad2.
The 'restore' worked just fine, but all the messages I had on Mail are gone.
Anyway to get them back?
Most are still on my Mail application on my Mac, but it was handy having them there.
(using POP, not IMAP)
sorry for any reposting.

From what I u dear stand there is no way to get them back on the iPad.

Messages disappearing from Mail

Hi,
I use an iMac 8,1 OS 10.5.8
For my email, I have two addresses and messages are downloaded to the Mail software. My Mail file is enormous (23GB) because I have all my sent and received emails for works purposes. I regularly copy the whole thing back and forth between my iMac and iBook via FireWire when I go away on trips.
I recently had some connectivity issues and was using my iPhone as a modem. Having encountered a problem, I restarted my computer, having closed down the programs. Having restarted and reopened Mail, I noticed that one of my mailboxes was having trouble opening, but I assumed that this was due to the slow connectivity. Now I have full wireless connectivity restored but I noticed that tens of thousands of sent messages, and hundred of received that were in my inbox, have simply disappeared. I have checked all the folders and the messages that have disappeared and they all relate to one of my email addresses - the one whose box was having trouble opening...
I have two questions - apart from how this couldl have happened:
1) can I restore the missing messages? Are they somewhere on my machine?
2) If not, I copied the whole of Mail to my iBook a few weeks ago. Can I transfer en masse the missing sent and received messages to my iMac, without effacing the more recent messages sent and received on this computer? If I import the Mailboxes, will this not overwrite the more recent messages since that copy to my iBook?
If anyone can help, I'd be most grateful, as these emails are really important for professional reasons.
thanks
Sebastian

With that version of OSX and Mail, there would be no Attachments folder with any POP account's mbox folder. Don't worry about that, as it is a fully redundant archive.
Do you only have POP accounts?
What you are going to have to do is to create some On My Mac mailboxes, and then in the Finder, move batches of the xxxxx.emlx files from the Messages folder into similar Messages folders in enough On My Mac mailboxes so that no one Messages folder exceeds 2 GB. This is because at 2 GB, Mail may not be able to index the messages in a single xxxxx.mbox folder.
Once you have created the On My Mac mailboxes in Mail, you must then Quit Mail. In the Finder, you will find those On My Mac mailboxes within the Mailboxes folder found within the Mail folder. You may have to create the Messages folder in each, if Mail does not do that at the moment of creation.
Once you have distributed the xxxx.emlx files across these new mailboxes, then also in the Finder, at the root level of the Mail folder, remove the Envelop Index files (may be more than one due to indexing failures, btw). then Relaunch Mail and allow it reindex all these messages in all these new mailboxes. See:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mail/4.0/en/14019.html
Pay no attention to its being for Lion, as this has not changed since Leopard (10.5.8). Especially note that IMAP and Exchange account folder, if any, must be removed before doing this.
Got to go out for awhile, so if any questions, ask and I will address, later.
Ernie

Messages disappear from mail app?

since i changed my comp and automaticly transfer from my old one, a power book,every day i open the mail app i find every time less messages inbox and sent...
i found some messages in librery they have a number and emlx(?)
does anybody can help me i don't want to loose all the info i have in my mail!

In the Finder, go to ~/Library/Mail/. With that folder open, do Edit > Select All (⌘A), then Edit > Copy (⌘C), and paste it in your reply to this post, to let me see the names of the files and folders present at the root level of the Mail folder.
Before actually posting that information, you may edit it so that the file/folder names do not reveal any details you wish to keep private, e.g. you may replace any real username with "username" to hide your real email address if you wish; similarly, you may disguise any domain names you don't want to be revealed. Try to be consistent in how you disguise those details, though, as we may need to refer to them in subsequent posts.
Now, go to ~/Library/Mail/Mailboxes/. With that folder open, repeat the process to let me see the names of the files and folders it contains. Again, you may disguise any mailbox names you wish to keep private. Be careful to not alter any suffixes, though.
Finally, locate the account folders within ~/Library/Mail/ -- their name begins with the account type (POP, IMAP, Mac), followed by the account username and the incoming mail server. For each account folder, repeat the process to let me see the names of the files and folders it contains.
Let me know which are the mailboxes that have the problem.
Note: For those not familiarized with the ~/ notation, it refers to the user's home folder. You can easily locate any of the folders referred to in this post by copying the file path here, doing Go > Go to Folder in the Finder, and pasting the file path there.

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Is there a way to delete all the messages in my erased message box without going through them one at a time? Empty the trashcan.

hullabaloo, we appreciate this device info! Should definitely be possible. If you go to your Voicemail Box, you can select Delete>on the bottom right hand corner, the option to choose Delete All should appear. This way you can delete them much quicker.
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All Messages in Apple Mail Now Blank

Hi, I use Apple Mail with my Yahoo email account. Starting today, every I open an email in Apple Mail (including every existing email that I have ever downloaded) gives me an error message, saying that the message was not downloaded from the server and I"need to take this account online in order to download it." Apple Mail is still going online and getting my emails (I can tell because they are marked as "read" on the Yahoo site), but every every email I try to open gives me that message.
I've just spent a half hour online with someone from Yahoo, who says I need to call someone from their Mac department. Maybe tomorrow - a half hour is enough of a commitment for tonight. Anyone experienced this before? Any ideas? I haven't changed any of my settings. Thanks.

Nevermind, the problem fixed itself. I don't know what happened; I think I restarted my computer, and the problem was gone. Nevermind!

Sent messages disappearing from Mail

I checked the threads. This has been a problem for some, but not me before that I remember, and I haven't come across a solution that works for me.
This morning I had an email message disappear after I tried to send it. Sometime later I heard the swoosh sound, and it's there in the sent mailbox, so I didn't think much about it. This evening, after taking much time to carefully compose a long detailed technical message to some actors and performers in a musical I'm producing, I clicked send, and the message disappeared. No draft, no sent, and no "swoosh". About a minute later, I heard a swoosh. But nothing else happened.
I'm about losing my **** right here. The most frustrating feeling ever.
Now, an hour later, still no message. I've checked everywhere I could think of. I looked in the mail folders in the Library. I found the email I sent prior to this. It's late at night, and I have no way of finding out whether it was received (somehow I doubt it), and now I'm worried some other critical messages I've sent out may have also vanished.
I depend on email for my work, and I've counted on mail to do the job for many years. It's always worked for me. Now this. I'd love to keep using mail, but I depend on my email for business, and I can't afford for this to ever happen again.
Has anyone else experienced this lately and has anyone else come up with a solution? Until I do, I'm taking special precautions such as manually copying the message as I go/revise and pasting/saving into text. I wish I didn't have to, but I obvioulsy can't count on mail.

Please see my post and how it was resolved:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1181356&tstart=0
When I had that issue, I tried using Apple Mail app and noticed that Sent Mails are getting lost. Try sending an email using WebMail. You might see similar "Permission Denied" error. Try restarting the server and see if the issue still exists.

Is there a way to forward *all* my emails (from Mail to gmail)?

I'm switching accounts with my ISP (Verizon, long story, not really relevant) and I can't keep the same username, I want to forward all the emails I've kept in Apple Mail to my Gmail account and use that from now on for everything.
There are only about 150 of them in there, but I'm looking for a way to send them all without doing them by hand individually (I did command-A and selected all of them but it said it was too big (27MB, 21MB limit) to send through my server (I deleted as much as I could, I realize I could split them in half but ideally I'd do a batch of all of them but arriving at Gmail *individually*).
Can this be done? Thanks

Yes that's what I meant by splitting it up, but ideally I want to have each email arrive individually (without forwarding each one by hand—but I don't know if it's possible).

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