Lost inbox - HELP!!

We recently changed ISP. We kept sending out mail and it would go out to the account that was no longer working. Today, in an effort to remove that option, I accidently deleted the old inbox. I need that information. Worse than that my wife needs that info. Unfortunately I even hit the rebuild after doing this. Is that info any where to be found????

bad news coach, by deleting that account you must have ignored the warning that pops up and deleted all associated mails.
Stop using your Mac a.s.a.p. as you may be overwriting essential data. Use a serious data recovery program to bring the files back. Data Rescue II is an example of such a program.
The folder you need to rescue is:
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I'll try and explain what I did more clearly. Following advice elsewhere I created a duplicate account of one which already existed and which I had been using. I named the account differently but it was a second account of an email account I was already using. The reason I did this was to try to set it up so that I could request a read receipt on an email to one person and I read on another site that this was how to do it. Upon finding that this made no difference and without having written, send or received any emails using the new duplicate account I decided to delete it.
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Have just changed isp to move from dial up to adsl. After changing mail settings I then deleted my previous isp mail account. This seems to have resulted in me losing all the mail in my inbox (though other mailboxes are fine). Can I recover the lost mail?
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Before deleting an email account in Mail, the following warning message is provided:
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This will erase all mailboxes for this account, but will not affect any messages stored on your mail server.
This is usually ignored or not completely understood but is based on the Mail.app filing structure.
Many other email clients utilize a single large database file which is not dependent on individual account and associated mailbox filing.
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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.
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There are lots of posts on this but not exactly as it's happened in this case. I have read thru all the posts and was able to recover some files but not all. Apparently MAIL was quiting and when data was imported, acct settings were changed. There were over 8,000 emails in INBOX and as much in SENT. Here's what's in the mail folder:
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You’re welcome.
The reason I post your entire quote is so that you have
complete info again
I see the entire thread every time I read any of the posts, so the only thing quoting everything accomplishes is actually reducing the amount of relevant information I can see on the screen.
Did you get a chance to read all of my replies?
Yes, and none of them explained what prevents you from solving the problem doing what I suggested in my first post...
I don't feel that you understood that I have done the easy import
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The only place where you mentioned having already tried importing anything is your first post, and the first thing I said in my reply to that post is precisely that I didn’t understand what you said there. So yes, you’re right that I didn’t understand it. Moreover, I still don’t understand it...
I am here because NOT all emails were recovered
And I’m trying to help you recover them, but I cannot do so if you don’t explain what’s the problem exactly.
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Maybe it’s one of those files (mbox) what you’re calling ‘mailbox’? If that’s the case, wouldn’t it have been clearer referring to those files by their name instead of (or in addition to) interpreting what they are?
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I am new to Macs. When I opened my Macbook today it automatically started an update to Mail. when it was done my settings for my ISP changed (eliminated my account settings and all that's there now is .Mac which I signed up for as a curiosity but don't use) deleted my inbox, deleted my sent messages and seems to have left all my other message alone.
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Even if there is enough space available on the startup disk, for some reason that remains a mystery to me, Mail sometimes “thinks” it must discard the current ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist preferences file and create a new one. As a result, all your non-.Mac account settings (but not the messages themselves), which are stored in that file, are lost.
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