Mailbox lost
I have made a big mistake.
I selected by error in Mail Preferences "Delete sent mail after a month", believing my mailbox content was safely backed-up under Time Machine.
In fact, it was not. Mail Outbox in Time Machine are empty. So all my mail sent since inception of iCloud account last june are lost.
Is there a way to recover it ?
Should I untick the Store sent messages on the server to revert to a storage on HD, or will it just totally suppress all Sent messages ?
I am a bit lost here.
I didn't know IMAP accounts didn't save nothing on HD.
Csound1 wrote:
quantxxx wrote:
I have made a big mistake.
I selected by error in Mail Preferences "Delete sent mail after a month", believing my mailbox content was safely backed-up under Time Machine.
In fact, it was not. Mail Outbox in Time Machine are empty. So all my mail sent since inception of iCloud account last june are lost.
Is there a way to recover it ?
I didn't know IMAP accounts didn't save nothing on HD.
Imap accounts do save on the HD, and you elected to delete the content of the sent folder after a month, so now they are deleted.
Outbox is not where sent messages are saved, they should be (any that are left at least) in the sent folder!
IMAP saves on HD, did you say ?
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