Mailboxes disappeared in mail - rebuild not an option

My mailboxes (http mail account) disappeared after doing some automatic software updates yesterday and restarting as directed. Rebuild is grayed, so I don't think it's an option.

Oy, I feel dumb. Somehow an httpmail account mailbox icon appeared with all of my mailboxes under it. It did not look this way before. Do you have any idea why it changed? Doesn't really matter, since the mailboxes are all there (THANKS). I just don't know why mail seems to have rearranged my mailboxes that way and apparently on its own.

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Mailboxes disappear in Mail 3.6 on Leopard 10.5.8

I have curious problem in Mail 3.6 -- when I launch the ap all my Mailboxes initially appear, then within a minute, the last 5 boxes in my list "disappear".
I can still search and find the messages in those mailboxes.
If I quit and restart the ap, the missing mailboxes appear again, but only for a minute or two, then they disappear again.
How can I make all my mailboxes always visible?
I recently updated from Tiger to Leopard, ran all the updates. I'm now 10.5.8

My problem is solved. It looks like I trained my Mail program to always load the missing mailboxes. Over the course of a few days they began appearing on launch and staying. Its possible that it was taking the OS some time to locate all the messages for those boxes. I'm not a Mail expert so that's just my guess.
Sorry to hear so many others here have had Mail messages wiped out or disappear. All I can say is check your Home> Library > Mail > Mailboxes folder to see if the Mailboxes contain any data. If they do, use your Mail ap to import them. And in the future use Time Machine or another back up program to save copies. Good luck all.

Icon for i cloud suddenly disappeared from mail ? Not a problem but just concerned that the icon should disappear from the listing for the iCloud e mail account

I had previosly set up a number of IMAP e mail account in addiiton under my .mac and .me account which is my personal account.
On the mail home page it had the inbox listing thee accounts and further down the page its used to list the on line accounts set up under I cloud using the same name as the .mac or .me accounts, but also included the i cloud icon as does my ipad. Logged onto day and the i cloud icon had dissappeared? not sure why it is still functioning and I still have all my icloud accounts set up but the icon is no longer present.
Maybe just a bit anal but it bugs me to know why this icon has suddenly dissappeared?

Hello,
Do you use these settings in Mail for your Gmail account (especially for the SMTP) ?
If you use IMAP and all your emails are still stored on the server you can delete your account in Mail and recreate it with the settings mentionned above.
Hope this will help.

Using the Email Button for Xpress Mail - it's not an option in the preferences

I'm trying to fix my boss' phone - her Xpress Mail works from the screen - but the button on the phone does not map to that app. Xpress Mail is not an option in the preferences area.
any help is appreciated!!
Thanks,
dana
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ok - i fixed it - she had it set that the Calendar button linked to Xpress Mail, so it was unavailable for other buttons. All cleared up now...
-dana
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Help! My Smart Mailboxes disappeared from my computer.

How do I view them from both my .mac account and my G5 using the stamp mail icon. I can't figure out to sync them.
thanks,
Kate

When creating a mailbox with the Mail.app (not a Smart Mailbox) your location choices are "On My Mac" which is stored locally on the hard drive only and if your have a .Mac or IMAP type account, you can select the account from the pop-up window for the location to create a server stored mailbox.
Any server stored mailboxes created should be available under the .Mac account icon in the mailboxes drawer.
I'm also having difficulty syncing data. For example, if I delete
an email from my G5 and then go to .mac, it's not viewable but
if i go back to my G5, i can see it in the trash.
Not sure why you want or need to keep messages marked for deletion synchronized with the server but in order to do so, go to Mail > Preferences > Accounts and under the Mailbox Behaviors tab for the account preferences, select "Store deleted messages on the server" in addition to "Move deleted messages to the Trash mailbox".
The server stored Trash mailbox for the account will then be available under the .Mac account icon in the mailboxes drawer.
For example, if I delete an email from my G5 and then go to .mac,
it's not viewable but if i go back to my G5, i can see it in the trash.
A .Mac type account is really an IMAP type account and behaves in the same way. Unless you select "Store deleted messages on the server" for the account preferences with the email client used, messages marked for deletion with the email client used (such as the Mail.app) will be stored locally on the hard drive and not on the server.
This behavior with an IMAP type account is the same regardless the email client used on any platform - Mac (OS X) or with a PC (Windows).

Main mailbox disappeared for iphone5

My main mailbox disappeared from mail although it still appears under mail accounts. Anyone know what happened? I still have all my other accounts listed under mailboxes.

How, exactly, did you close out the Mail App?
In fact, close out all running apps, including the Settings App, and then restart the device.

Some of the messages in a gmail mailbox are missing. I tried to select rebuild but this option is not available (i.e. it is greyed out). Any suggestions? The mail is all there when I go into the Google Mailbox.

Some of the messages in a gmail mailbox are missing. I tried to select rebuild but this option is not available (i.e. it is greyed out). Any suggestions? The mail is all there when I go into the Google Mailbox.

I've ran the connection doctor and it's showing that the connection to the internet is fine
What about the connections to the mail servers?

I have an i4s and my mail from bellsouth disappears. I can sync my hotmail days to sync but there is not that option with bellsouth. How do I do it so they won't disappear?

I have an i4s and my mail from bellsouth disappears. I can sync my hotmail days to sync but there is not that option with bellsouth. How do I do it so they won't disappear?

Your iCloud password is your Apple ID and password. You must know it since you are posting here.
Have you transfered your MMe account to iCloud? If not, open iCloud in system preferences and sign in with your Apple ID and password.
If you have transfered it to iCloud, do this:
Go to the iCloud icon in System Preferences and open it. Sign out of iCloud.
Open Mail. If the iCloud or MMe account still exists in Mail's preferences under accounts, select the account and delete it. Then sign back into iCloud and choose Mail and any other applications in iCloud that you use. The Mail account should be put into Mail automatically.
Signing out of iCloud should remove the account from Mail and signing back in should put it back. There is no manuel account creation by you when using Apple Mail application.

Mail does not see e-mail in mailbox

Hi there,
I have three e-mail accounts that are all set up successfully (I can send and receive mail) in Mail. Two of the three accounts are gmail accounts. One of the gmail accounts has about 20 e-mails in the inbox. I created this account in Mail and it promptly downloaded all 20 e-mails. As I was setting up the other two accounts in Mail, I was forced to remove the first one as part of some trouble shooting steps.
I've since added the first account back into Mail but now it will not download those 20 e-mails again. I can send and receive e-mail from all my accounts, and I can see the original 20 e-mails sitting in the inbox of my gmail account when logged in through the browser. But no matter what I do I can not get those same messages into Mail again. Does anyone have any suggestions? Here's what I've tried.
1) Delete and re-create the account
2) Mailbox->Get All New Mail
3) Mailbox->Get New Mail->(foo)@gmail.com
4) Mailbox->Rebuild
I'm using Version 3.1 (914/915) of Mail.
Thank you!

Gmail: How to re-download recent Gmail messages
http://lifehacker.com/software/gmail/how-to-re+download-recent-gmail-messages-25 1365.php
Any messages that are older the 30 days you should still be able to re-download manually by going to the webmail and forwarding the messages to yourself.
If that does not work then you may need to forward them to another e-mail account perhaps one provided by your isp.

(Mail) Smart mailboxes disappeared

I have been running a fairly comprehensive set of smart mailboxes to organise mail since August 2002. Today I noticed all my smart mailboxes have disappeared.
Oddly enough they have disappeared on both of my user accounts on this mac, although it's only one of those user accounts where their loss would be disastrous. They may not actually have disappeared today, just merely that I noticed it today.
I keep regular back ups of the library/mail folder, but rather than start to fiddle and experiment with replacing files from my back ups, I'm assuming someone here can tell me exactly which files from the backed up library/mail folder I should move to my actual library/mail folder. I'm guessing it will be one or more of the files in the MailData folder.
My back ups are incremental back ups but assume the smart mailbox data is held in a single file, so I don't need to hunt down lots of files.
This what I have in my actual library/mail folder.
And this is what I have in a recent back up
I'm assuming the size of the backed up SmartMailbox property list indicates all my lost data is safe, but I don't really know whether that property list is the only file I should replace.
Thanks in advance guys.

The same thing just happened to my smart mailboxes. I noticed that you did not receive an answer....Did you find the file or another way to resolve this?

HT5361 Upgrade 10.6.8 to 10.8.4; Mail did not keep all my mailboxes

When I upgraded from 10.6.8 to 10.8.4,Mail did not set up all my mailboxes and now I cannot find messages stored in various mailboxes. Where are they ?
Can I get them back (FWIW I also have backed up with Time Macine)

Apple support article.
Restore Mailboxes and their Content
If that doesn't work, in Time Machine go back to Snow Leopard. Look in your Home folder/User Library/Mail and you can navigate to the mailboxes.
By default, your User Library isn't visible in Mountain Lion. Either hold down the option key while using the Finder “Go To Folder” command and select your user Library in your home folder or use the Finder “Go To Folder” command and enter ~/Library
If you prefer to make your user library permanently visible, use the Terminal command found below.
Show User Library
You might want to bookmark the command. I had to use it again after I installed 10.8.4. I have also been informed that if you drag the user library to Finder it will remain visible.

Mail mailboxes disappeared with upgrade to Mountain Lion

I upgraded from Lion to Mountain Lion a couple of days ago. Yesterday everything was fine, but today my Mail mailboxes have all disappeared--they're just not there. Years of carefully filed correspondence! How do I get them back? I back up with Time Machine to a Time Capsule.
Thanks.

When I click on "show" or "hide," the following mailboxes appear and disappear:
Inbox
Flagged
Drafts
Sent
Junk
Trash
The mailboxes I created used to appear below "On my Mac," but now there's nothing below that.

Mail hangs , mailboxes disappear

My mail has been hanging up several times a day. The mailboxes disappear and the application hangs. When I force quit it comes back as good as new until the next time it hangs. I noticed this happening before with the mobileme sync. I turned that off and it seemed to solve the problem but now it has returned and mobileme is not set to sync. Any ideas?

You may have to reimport the mailboxes. Try this
1. Go to ~/Library/Preferences, and trash the com.apple.mail.plist. (don't empty the trash yet). Restart.
2. Restart Mail, and Import From Mailboxes. Navigate to the ~/Library/Mail folder, and look for your accounts. They will start with "POP" or "IMAP". Import each one. Move the mailboxes out from the "Imported" folder.

HT2480 When I am setting up exchange / outlook mail, I am not getting option to select the folders for syncing, can you please help me to solve this problem

In outlook mail mails are not getting downloaded and option to select the folders to sync is not visible in the exchange setup

See:
* http://www.ehow.com/how_6609141_remove-bearshare-spyware.html
* http://www.fanhow.com/answers/question-77222-how-to-delete-bearshare-search-from-firefox
You can look for a "Mediabar" program under "Control Panel > Programs and features"
See also this forum thread about BearShare:
*[[/questions/792580]]
If the menu bar is hidden then press the F10 key or hold down the Alt key to make the menu bar appear.
Make sure that toolbars like the "Navigation Toolbar" and the "Bookmarks Toolbar" are visible: "View > Toolbars"
*Open the Customize window via "View > Toolbars > Customize"
*Check that the "Bookmarks Toolbar items" is on the Bookmarks Toolbar
*If the "Bookmarks Toolbar items" is not on the Bookmarks Toolbar then drag it back from the toolbar palette in the customize window to the Bookmarks Toolbar
*If missing items are in the toolbar palette then drag them back from the Customize window on the toolbar
*If you do not see an item on a toolbar and in the toolbar palette then click the "Restore Default Set" button to restore the default toolbar set up
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Toolbar_customization
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Back+and+forward+or+other+toolbar+items+are+missing

Mail does not create new emails based on the highlighted mailbox, but rather the receiving mailbox of whatever individual email happens to be highlighted. This was not the case prior to Lion. Is this a bug or an error on my part?

Mail does not create new emails based on the highlighted mailbox, but rather according the receiving mailbox of whatever individual email happens to be highlighted. This was not the case prior to Lion. Is this a bug or an error on my part? (I do have the setting for creating new emails from the highlighted mailbox checked.)

The questions about time was not only because of thinking about the Time Machine, but also possible impact on recognizing which messages remaining on a POP server (doesn't apply to IMAP) have been already downloaded. In the Mail folder, at its root level, in Mail 3.x there is a file named MessageUidsAlreadyDownloaded3 that should prevent duplicate downloading -- some servers may not communicate the best with respect to that, and the universal index must certainly be involved in updating that index file. If it corrupts, it can inhibit proper downloading. However, setting the account up in a New User Account and having the same problem does not point that way, unless your POP3 server is very different from most.
That universal index is also typically involved when messages are meant to be moved from the Inbox to another mailbox -- in Mail 3.x the message does not move, but rather is copied, and then erased from the origin mailbox. That requires updating the Envelope Index to keep track of where the message is, and should keep track of where it is supposed to have been removed after the "Move".
Ernie

Mailboxes disappeared in mail - rebuild not an option

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