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After running the Rebuild process, my Inbox for my POP telus account is now blank. I had over 1400 messages in that mailbox before I ran Rebuild.
What can I do to get my emails back?
Thanks!

G2K wrote:
Yes I do have the "pop.telus.com" folder under mail. Inside that folder, I find a bunch of other folders such as INBOX.mbox and Sent.mbox.
j.v. wrote:
Inside my top level "IMAP-jv@ imap.aol.com" account folder, I have folders with extensions ".imapmbox". I'm thinking that yours should probably be ".popmbox".
So, my folders have names like "INBOX.imapmbox and "Sent.imapmbox". As a non-pop guy, I'm making an educated guess that yours should probably be "INBOX.popmbox" and "Sent.popmbox", etc.
So how about quitting mail, then in Finder control-click on your /Users/g2k/Library/Mail folder and make a (.zip) archive of it for safety's sake, then, for every one of those ".mbox" folders inside your "POP-g2k @ pop.telus.com folder, change them to have extension ".popmbox"? Then restart Mail and see if that improves anything for you. Maybe even rebuild your mailbox again, too.
If that does not fix it, drag your modified /Users/g2k/Library/Mail folder to the trash and double-click on that zip archive that you made earlier. Then, although still broke, you will be restored back to where you were before you started, at least.

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