Apple Mail Hotmail local DB lost

Hi
My problem is about Apple Mail and my hotmail account:
Recently i've upgraded Lion to 10.7.3, i don't know if this is tha cause but when i try to launch Mail, it shows the wizard for configuring a new account...
and where are my emails???
what can i do?

It is strange, indeed. I'm running here 8 mail accounts in Mail, some Gmail and 2 with private ISP's, all IMAP, and one corporate MS Exchange account, all without the slightest problem on my side, also in 10.8.2.
Since it's Exchange and nothing will get lost, I'd strongly recommend to back up mail folders on your Mac under the account, then delete the troublesome mail account entirely, shut down mail, reboot or at least log out and back in, then set up the mail account from scratch. It works well automatically, usually, but go carefully through the options, e.g. ports, server-side mail folders etc., to make sure Mail actually has access to wherever the mails are on the server. It should work absolutely fine for you then, too.

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It sounds like you need to know the proper settings to use Hotmail and Gmail with the Mac Mail application on your Mac. This website should help you find them, and show you the settings you need for those services:
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Thank you for using Apple Support Communities.
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I've had no issues for the past 2 years but suddenly I can't send email from my hotmail accounts via applemail.
I've deleted accounts and readded them. I've checked all the mail settings are correct. I've disabled any antivirus software. I've done this repeatedly, but still get the same issues.
The only thing i have changed in the last week is that I have switched to a fixed IP address as I needed this for my business.
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Hey,
I found this worked for me, just check your hotmail settings are as follows
You change your POP to IMAP like this
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Port: 993
Encrypted Connection: SSL
Outgoing server:
SMTP: smtp-mail.outlook.com
Port: 25 or 587
Encrypted Connection: TLS
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Password: Your Password
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You’re welcome.
According to what you said in your first post, this happened as a result of downloading your mail on the iPhone. I have no idea how the iPhone works or what its capabilities are, but are you sure your .Mac account is set up as IMAP there as well and not as POP?
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Similarly, Address Book (whose data you should back up as well) stores the settings in ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.AddressBook.plist and the data in ~/Library/Application Support/AddressBook/.
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Actually, while you’re at it, you might as well back up your entire home folder...
For IMAP accounts, if Mail > Preferences > Accounts > Advanced > Keep copies of messages for offline viewing is set to All messages and their attachments, Mail keeps a local copy of those messages on your hard disk that becomes part of any backup that includes the ~/Library/Mail folder.
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ok now I found a solution:
Navigate to the folder which contains the local mailboxes as MBOX-Files. ~/Library/Mail/V2/Mailboxes/
Locate the MBOX-file which contains the messages which are not displayed.
In my case I tried to access mails from "Empfangen" and "Gesendet" so I copied over those two MBOX-files to the desktop.
Now go to mail.app and select import message box
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done!
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Change it to ActiveSync,
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Activesync is not yet available for OSX, only IOS, my apologies.
Here are the correct settings for POP access, please check yours, also check that you have only 1 smtp server defined.
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Can someone tell me if 'Windows Live Hotmail Plus' works with Apple Mail?
Can I send and receive (hotmail) e-mails in Mail without going onto the internet to the hotmail site?
I will still use the online hotmail, when I'm away from my computer.
One on my friends suggested using Gmail, but there's too much hassle changing everything over. And I mean everything... all my internet shopping accounts, all the forums account, all my contacts I have stored... plus I want to keep using Adium (all my friends have hotmail and MSN on Windows, but iChat doesn't work). So I don't want Gmail for sending them all e-mails while still using hotmail to chat... I'd rather they'd all be under the one account (hotmail).
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Thanks for your reply.
The problem is that I've got many years of emails saved on my hotmail account and I've got other different email addresses set up to forward their emails to this account. Due to the nature of my work, I also regularly have to search back through my emails.
It looks like my only option currently is to use an icloud account and have all of my other email accounts all forwarding emails to that instead. Unfortunately, this doesn't solve the problem of being able to search back through my emails, though.
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