HELP! I deleted a mail.app account and it deleted my inbox!

I have several pop accounts set to delete from the server on download. I got a new mail server and made a new account corresponding to one of my old ones. I didn't want there to be a conflict with the two accounts using the same "from" address, so I deleted the old account in account preferences.
Mail then promptly deleted my important inbox for that old account, but none of the other messages from that account that had been moved to other folders.
Is there any way to get the inbox for that account? I have a back up of my disk but from a couple of months ago.

There's not one single file to recover, no... Mail's mailboxes are stored as folders full of .emlx files with cryptic names, so you're extremely unlikely to be able to get much back with a file recovery tool, and it would be a lot of work regardless.
However, if you have a backup, you should be able to retrieve that mailbox. Sounds like it's a clone, which means it looks just like your boot drive, right? On that drive, look in /Users/youruser/Library/Preferences/Mail/, where you'll find all the mailboxes. You should be able to import mail straight from any of those into a new mailbox in Mail.

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Help please

Go to Settings>Mail the account and turn the account off and then back on
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Has anyone else had an issue where Mail.app signatures and rules disappeared?

For unknown reasons, I lost all my Mail.app signatures and Rules on Oct 10, 2012 at about 9:00AM PST.
Anybody else see something like this?
Also, I am getting sandboxd warnings that are Mail preference related....
I am guessing that the preferences access error that the sandboxd is having is related but who knows...
Anybody seen these kinda log messages?
11/8/12 6:08:53.579 PM sandboxd[1589]: ([423]) Mail(423) deny file-read-data /Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist
repeated many times per hour.
there also seems to be a problem with the mdworker process .... that is perhaps related to the Mail issue....
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Oct 9 00:37:26 mbp15.thaijavaworks.net mdworker[5985]: Unable to talk to lsboxd
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I think this is an issue with the phone's proximity sensor (the one that turns the screen off when you hold it up to your ear). It's a bug that seems to occur when you switch to another app (any app) while still on a phone call. You'll notice in Messages that the screen goes dark when you move your thumb over the earpiece/iSight camera, but not when you move your other thumb.
Simplest solution is to force-quit the Messages app (double-click the home button, and swipe up on the app). The problem should resolve itself when you restart Messages.

Mail.app plugins and dot releases...

I am a beta tester, currently using the 10.6.7 beta on my MacBook as I write small programs for my own personal use in my day to day professional life so need to keep myself up to date to make sure my workflow can carry on uninterrupted (I am a Medic, so making sure I can do my daily work without interruption is VERY important).
Each dot update for OS X Snow Leopard seems to break mail plugins, this is not an isolated or unknown issue and it's not just the betas, the GM updates also break mail plugins. I currently use GrowlMail and WideMail, but not WideMail does not work following the update to 10.6.7.
Any fixes? Normally the old adding plugin UUIDs to the .plist files for each plugin works but I haven't been able to find any info on the plugin UUIDs for 10.6.7.
C'mon Apple, I know the plugins are third party and not your responsibility, but mail.app is and each time we update our plugins stop working. 9 times out of 10, we don't need new plugins, we just need to modify the ones that exist. What happened to it just works? Am I doomed to have to keep repeating this process with each update?
Must be a better way...

yes...and it has now happened again with the release of 10.6.7. My Mail plug-ins have all gone AWOL.
Rather than looking for ways to update the plug-ins, or forcing users to jump through hoops to make them work, shouldn't Apple be incorporating some new features into Mail itself? As an email client, it's way behind where Eudora was 10 years ago.
My main issue with Mail is visibility- it's very easy to miss an important incoming message.
BTW, beta testers are supposed to sign an agreement that they won't tell anyone they are beta testers, or what they're doing.

Accidentally deleted MobileMe mailbox in Mail.app 4 and now need to recover

Here's what's up. Yesterday I accidentally deleted a mailbox on my MobileMe account. The one that has 30000+ messages in it form the past 3 years...
Realizing how stupid that was I immediately made a copy on a safe place of the local cache on my computer. So now I have a copy of that entire mailbox in .imapmbox format. Today I have tried to find a solution to figure out how to get that email back into Mail.app and I fail to find a way.
I have tried to make a bogus IMAP account and copy the mailbox to it but nothing happens, I have tried to import the email using the import tool in Mail.app but it can't recognize the filetype, I have tried to just copy the entire mailbox into the Mailboxes directory in my Library and then it actually appeared in the "On My Mac"-list as a mailbox but with no messages in it.
I have use emlxtombox converter and that gave me some result but the attachments were omitted.
What to do?

Have you tried to import the mail box? You are trying to copy a back file into the mail app, it will not work as you found out. You should look into a way to backup your files.
try the following:
import mail box
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2442
to restore
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mail/4.0/en/15171.html

Mail.app AddressBook and CardDav Accounts

Mail.app has "add to address book" function and "create new contact" When I select an email address from the subject of the message, I get "Add to Address Book" when I click the arrow. This contact shows up in the proper location (CardDAV server)
"create new contact, an option activated by selecting contact info from within the body of an email adds the new contact info to "On My Mac"
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Hello,
Are you saying that in Mail Preferences/Accounts/Account Information, all the accounts are listed? If so, read on, but if not post further info.
Do you know all the info needed to set the accounts up again, if needed? Then Quit Mail, and then in the Finder open Home/Library/Preferences and locate the file named com.apple.mail.plist and drag it out to the Desktop. Relaunch Mail, and it should open as though New, but DECLINE when prompted to import anything, but instead simply set the accounts back up, and Mail should rediscover the existing account folders.
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Mail App, gMail and automatically deleting trash

I have the Mail App setup for gmail's IMAP configuration. I have set up the client to store both locally and the server for the TRASH folder. gMail automatically deletes trash in 30 days but I am trying to enhance that feature by allowing MAIL to handle this for me. And as you would have guess, I want less than 7 days too.
So I developed a script that when run removes the trash greater than 3 days. But as soon as I do it the TRASH is added back from the server. It seems to work but doesn't stick.
Here is my script if someone is curious:
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delete (every message of mailbox "Trash" of account "Google Mail" whose (date received is less than (current date) - 3 * days))
end tell
Maybe there is a better way to do this. I would appreciate any suggestions or solutions that you guys know about.
Thanks in advance.
-Mickey

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Mail.app, movamail and gmail

hi
I use gmail for my main email account, which I access predominantly via mail.app. I've recently started using movamail on my mobile phone to check email periodically and I've realised that this marks the gmail messages as 'downloaded' in some way (although the messages are still marked as unread on gmail), so that when I check for new messages via mail.app, it does not download the messages that I've viewed on my phone.
Is there some way to set mail.app to download all new unread messages? Or is there some setting on gmail or movamail that anyone know about?
any help gratefully received.
thanks
Jamie
ibook Mac OS X (10.3.7)
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Hi Jamie.
This is a Gmail issue that you can do nothing about if you want full POP access to your Gmail account from more than one computer. Gmail POP access does not work as a normal POP mail server should. Here are some of its idiosyncrasies:
1. Messages downloaded by any conventional POP mail client are marked as downloaded at the server (but not as read on the web), and no longer available to either the same or any other POP mail client.
2. To make already downloaded Gmail messages available for POP access again, you must log into your Gmail account with a web browser and re-enable POP downloading for all your messages, which will cause everything (and I mean everything) still there to be downloaded again.
3. Any Mail > Preferences > Accounts > Advanced > Remove copy from server settings have absolutely no effect on the messages stored on Gmail’s server. The reason is that, after being downloaded, those messages are no longer available to any mail client, not even to the same client that has just downloaded them, not even for deleting them or checking whether they are still there.
4. Messages created and sent using the web interface will be downloaded by your POP mail client as if they were incoming messages. You can set up a rule in Mail to automatically route those messages to the appropriate Sent mailbox (or to any other mailbox for that matter) if that's what you want. Although this may seem weird, it's good because it allows archiving all messages locally in Mail, regardless of how they were sent -- as long as you don't access the same Gmail account with more than one mail client, that is.
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6. As a particular case of 5, messages sent to yourself will appear in your Inbox on the web, but won’t be available for download by any POP mail client either.

Mail app: Account unavailable

Im having problems with the mail app in windows 8 in regards to sending.
I have multiple accounts setup via Imap/smtp from my company website. The issue is when I send an email it says "email address" is unavailable. It seems to be syncing mail and folders without any issues.
The account is setup with "outgoing server requires authentication" and I have tested using the same settings in outlook which does in fact work without any problems.
I have tried deleting/re-adding the account. Uninstalling/reinstalling mail and even reinstalling windows and running all available updates for both store and windows.
Any help on the matter would be greatly appreciated.
Kind regards,
simon

I have the same problem, receiving works fine, sending doesn't anymore as it worked fine before. In my case it happens with my hosting/domain mail account.
The only thing that works for me to send my e-mails is using my ISP"s smtp settings.
But now I can only send mails when í'm on my ISP's network and therefore i want it solved
I did some hours of troubleshooting, things like:
Checked settings over 10 times (why, i'm not an idiot lol)
Changed settings (other ports, other password, ssl/no sll, changed server name (virtual so from mail.... to mail11... and into the IP)
Contacted my hosting to report / double check however outlook in win8 and my mobile works fine with the same setup/settings.
Enabled telnet and did some sessions, all fine...
Removed NIS2013 and also reinstalled again (it's needed for my job ;))
Used the netstat command, nothing wrong
Clean boot (msconfig)
Research on internet (technet, ms answers, ...) I found a lot more posts...
There are some tips like remove the mail app / reinstall, add the full imap/smtp name if you hosting is using virutal servers (example: change mail.domain.com into mail32.domain.com) that worked in some cases.
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Hey all, I've now spent the better of 3days on the forums and have tried several approaches. Here's the problem: During syncing all is fine until iTunes starts to sync my mail (.Mac), at which point it freezes and an error message appears stating: that "iTunes could not sync mail accounts to the iPhone because the iPhone canceled the sync". Furthermore, the Mail app on the phone keeps crashing. The screen appears and starts to load my emails and once complete the screen goes black and returns me to the home page. Now, I did try the trick of deleting the AppleMobileDeviceHelper.app and was able to successfully sync the mail, however, the app still crashes on my phone. And when I put the AppleMobileDeviceHelper.app back in the folder, and try to sync, of course it freezes during the backup of the mail syncing. Help, help, my girlfriend is sick of me and this phone, I'm a bit wigged out at this point.
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I am helping my friend fix her 15" G4 PowerBook after memory failures caused many crashes. There was no recovering short of a reinstall via "archive and install". All that worked great, but now Mail doesn't recognize the accounts, mailboxes, signatures, etc. that are still located in the user/library/mail folder.
What's up with that? I can't figure out how to relink Mail to this stuff.
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If your friend doesn't have a backup copy of that file, just set up the accounts from scratch all over 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 HOME/Library/Mail/ when done.
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Mail forgets Accounts and then Contents of Mailboxes

Running Leopard with all Updates so far...
After a force reset (pressing Power-Button to switch off) my Mail somehow reseted itself. When starting Mail all my Accounts plus Send Messages were gone.
Tried to go back in time and replaced my Mail Library and Mail.app. No change. After that I tried to replace the Mail Library Folder in the root/all users directory. Now the contents of my mailboxes is also gone. But all messages and also the send messages are definitely in my Library.
If anybody could help out, this is pretty much a catastrophe for me. Thanks.

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http://img182.imageshack.us/my.php?image=bild1mk4.png
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I have looked into the Mail Library and found the send objects (could even open a single mail in Mail), the contents of my Mailboxes/Folders and directories with the account name. It seems that everything is there, but Mail refuses to "see" it.
Hope this makes my situation more clear.

Mail.app From and Subject are blank in list

From time to time I get an email and once it is deleted, the "From" and "Subject" do not display in the list of emails. Its just blank. The "Date Received" shows up as well as if there were any attachments I get the paperclip icon, but no "From" or "Subject". If I open the email I can see the "From" and "Subject" in the email header just fine so I know the data is there, just doesnt show up in the list of emails. If I move the email back to my inbox and the delete it again it usually fixes the problem. Not a big deal but wanted to see if anyone else has had this issue and has a fix.
I am running Mail.app 3.2, and my emailemail is being routed through google apps setup as imap account.
This also happens on my wife's computer, who has an identical email setup as mine, just a different account, which leads me to believe its a mail.app ->imap ->gmail issue.
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I have tried suffering through changing the message encoding back and forth to get messages to appear, but it has reached a level of absurdity that I just can stand anymore.
I view my mail with IMAP from three places; Mac Pro, MacBook Pro, and iPhone. If I read a message on any one of the platforms, the remaining Mac (not iPhone) do not display the header information in the message list pane. The iPhone always shows everything fine. And if I download the message first on one of the Macs, it looks fine there, but when that message is downloaded on the other Mac (doesn't matter which was first or second, the pro or macbook pro) the from, to, sent, subject are all invisible on the second machine.
I wrote an automator "watch me" recording to toggle message encoding, but with over 2000 affected email messages, it was taking hours to run, and makes that Mac useless until it is done.
I am less than happy with this situation. Why no bulk message encoding change capability? If you select more than one message the encoding options grey-out.
I've tried rebuilding mailboxes. Using the "defaults write ..." on both Macs. Nothing is working.
Surely someone else is seeing this too?
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HELP! I deleted a mail.app account and it deleted my inbox!

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