All old mail lost

I opened up my mac Mail software and it showed the setup window like it had never been started before, so I entered the information and then all my sent and received email disappered... how do I get all my mail back... also when I try to save any password in any software... mac mail or fetch it says that "keychain 'login' cannot be found to store 'myname'". please help.

You also need to check the free space on your hard drive, or if partitioned, on the boot partition. The issue you report can result from lack of disk space on the boot volume, and which can lead to overwriting the preference files for Mail.
Normally, if this happens, and you re-enter the account setup info, and then DECLINE to import anything, Mail will rediscover the account folder(s) and be back to normal.
Ernie

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