Mail re-import after improper shut down? Leopard.

Leopard mail.
Improper account logout resulted in a force quit of mail. And now it has to reimport all the messages again. Its not that big of a deal for some users as its quick, but there are some who have tens-of-thousands of emails and it takes forever to reimport them all. Any way around this or is it just a necessary step in Leopard mail? It never did this in Tiger.

Matt Henze wrote:
Leopard mail.
Improper account logout resulted in a force quit of mail. And now it has to reimport all the messages again. Its not that big of a deal for some users as its quick, but there are some who have tens-of-thousands of emails and it takes forever to reimport them all. Any way around this or is it just a necessary step in Leopard mail?
the best way around this is to have a backup. what most likely happened to you is that your mail preference file got reset during the improper shutdown. this is fairly common.
you could restore this one file from the backup and you'd be back to normal.
the file in question is /users/username/library/preferences/com.apple.mail.plist.
if you don't have a backup then it should be enough to recreate your email accounts. they should recognize their existing mailboxes without the need to redownload all messages again.

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