Restore Mail?

How do I restore mail after a system re-install? I tried moving the mail folder from Previous System but it didn't work. (Still made me setup new mail account).
TIA! Jennifer

You also need the Mail files from your Preferences folder. That's where it stores its account information.

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Time Machine error while trying to restore Mail.app

Ok, I'm not really sure how to explain the mess I'm in, but I'm going to do my best.
I accidentally deleted two very important Mail accounts. Before I realized that to restore them all I had to do was restore the library files, I attempted to restore the entire Mail.app.
When I did this, I chose to replace it with the backup from last night. Example: I had the Finder open, Mail.app selected, and went to the time machine and went back to last night. It asked me if I wanted to keep the original, keep both, or replace and I chose to replace. It asked for my password (I'm the ONLY user on this computer), I entered it, and then it told me I do not have permission to restore it.
Now, I cannot even open Mail.app. So... I can't even open it to bring it to the foreground to attempt to restore it that way.
How do I restore Mail.app in this case? I have the missing library files restored already... now... what do I do about the program?
FWIW, I'm on 10.5.4... not sure why I haven't upgraded yet.

Ok. I managed to get Mail.app restored... as in, I can open it and I can see the accounts that I didn't accidentally delete.
I restored the files in the Library and I can see the account there... now... how do I get them to show up in Mail.app?

How to restore mail

My mail got corrupted. I have several POP accounts and a .mac account. I am trying to get all my mailboxes restored from backup data.
Here is what I did. I have the user/library/mail folder backed up. I quit mail and moved what I believed to be the corrupted /library/mail folder to the trash and replaced in with what I think is a clean backup /library/mail folder. I then restarted mail expecting it to bring up all the email boxes etc from the back up. Several of the mailboxes are missing. All the mail in the inbox is marked as unread. The Sent folder is empty. From comparison to the backup I know the sent folder is supposed to have ~20 MBytes of data in it and also has .mbox files that don't appear in mail.
I'm pretty confused by all this and would appreciate any insight. Note my OS is 10.3.9.
Thanks,
-Dan
IMac G4 Mac OS X (10.3.9)

Do I need to restore the preferences file com.apple.mail.plist also in addition to the library mail file to get this to work?
I have observed something interesting. I do what I described in my first post and restored just the library>mail folder without doing anything to the prefernece file. Then after starting mail the library>mail folder grows with approximately twice the number of folders. It is as if mail makes some new empty folders or mailboxes instead of using the ones in the restored mail. I'm away from my mac now so I haven't tried restoring preferences yet.
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Please follow these directions to delete the Mail "sandbox" folders. In OS X 10.9 there are two sandboxes, while in earlier versions there is only one.
Back up all data.
Triple-click anywhere in the line below on this page to select it:
~/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail
Right-click or control-click the highlighted line and select
Services ▹ Reveal
from the contextual menu.* A Finder window should open with a folder named "com.apple.mail" selected. If it does, move the selected folder — not just its contents — to the Desktop. Leave the Finder window open for now.
Log out and log back in. Launch Mail and test. If the problem is resolved, you may have to recreate some of your Mail settings. You can then delete the folder you moved and close the Finder window. If you still have the problem, quit Mail again and put the folder back where it was, overwriting the one that may have been created in its place. Repeat with this line:
~/Library/Containers/com.apple.MailServiceAgent
Caution: If you change any of the contents of the sandbox, but leave the folder itself in place, Mail may crash or not launch at all. Deleting the whole sandbox will cause it to be rebuilt automatically.
*If you don't see the contextual menu item, copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. In the Finder, select
Go ▹ Go to Folder...
from the menu bar, paste into the box that opens (command-V). You won't see what you pasted because a line break is included. Press return.

Restoring mail if its been in the trash can

Hello there,
I gotten an important mail piece in my mail box but I deleted it by mistake. When I went to go and look for it ... it wasn't there no more. Now my question comes to you to see if you can restore mail piece after its been lost or not?

On the Mac without an account named Trash mailbox for the POP account under Trash in the Mailboxes drawer, is "Move deleted messages to a separate folder" selected under the Mailbox Behaviors tab for the account preferences?
If so, the account's Trash mailbox is located in the account named folder (named by the user name and incoming mail server for the account) at Home > Library > Mail > this POP account named folder > Deleted Messages.mbox folder.
Not at Home > Library > Mail > Mailboxes.
The Deleted Messages.mbox folder within the Mailboxes folder represents the "On My Mac" named Trash mailbox under Trash in the mailboxes drawer.

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See ifiOS: Troubleshooting Mail helps.
Also open Mail, go to Mailboxes, the Account, Trash and tap a mail message then the folder symbol at the bottom, and then choose the Inbox.

Trying to send using Apple mail program after installing Mavericks; Keep getting box "iCloud Cannot connect to account iCloud". Entering password restores mail but why should I have to do this?

Trying to send mail via Apple's email program (not iCloud off web page) after Mavericks show pane "iCloud cannot connect to account iCloud". Entering p/w restores mail but why should this be happening?

While I am no fan of Best Buy and would not buy a lightbulb from them I doubt you issues have anything to do with your iMac and more to do with your lack of experience and simply getting bad advice. Judging by you post I suspect you have loaded your computer down with a lot of crapware and that has caused it's problems. For example running antivirus apps on a Mac not only is a waste of time, it's a waste of money, system resources and will eventually create more problems that it solves. Please begin educating yourself on the subject by reading Thomas Reeds articles on the subject, Thomas is a frequent and knowledgeable contributor to these forums. You can find his webpage at http://www.reedcorner.net/tech-guides/
The good news is here are absolutely no, zero, zippo viruses for OS X. There are other types of malware available (for example trojans) however they differ greatly from viruses in that the use has to download and install them, whereas viruses do not work that way. OS X is not like MS Windows and is extremely secure.
My suggestion at this point would be to clean your computer of the crapware (including antivirus apps) however before doing so please download and install EtreCheck and post its report. Then we can see how your computer has been configured and begin to give you some advice on the next steps.

HT201250 how do I restore mail

How do I restore mail - i seem to have over written it -I have time machine but no instruction about how to restore just one programm

Do you need to restore the application (program), or the data (mailboxes, emails), or the setup (preferences -- account names, mailbox rules, server names, etc.)?
Those are three different things, stored in different places.
If your Mail app is missing from your Dock, see if it's in your Applications folder. If so, just start it, then right-click its Dock icon and select Keep in Dock.
If something else is missing, please clarify.

Restore mail from iCloud

By deleting mailboxes from my @me account I didn't expect that iCloud would sync. Is there a possibility of restoring mail from iCloud/ idisk for mailboxes? I would expect that back ups would be taken from the iCloud?
hope somebody or Apple can help. regards, albertus

If the old ID is an earlier version of your current ID, try temporarily recreating the old ID by going to https://appleid.apple.com, click Manage my Apple ID and sign in with your current iCloud ID. Click edit next to the primary email account, change it back to your old email address and save the change. Then edit the name of the account to change it back to your old email address. Now try using your current password even though it prompts you for the password for your old account ID. If successful, go back to https://appleid.apple.com and change your primary email address and iCloud ID name back to the way it was.

How to restore mail and address book?

I recently had to reformat my hard drive and I had backed up my entire home directory. I would like to either restore everything in these two programs, or consolidate the data with that on another computer. Where do I find the files? I assumed it would be in Library somewhere, but I can't find them, what are they called, and how do I get the data back into the programs?

You will find the Mail data in /Home/Library/Mail/. Address Book and iCal data are in /Home/Library/Applications Support/. The preference files are in /Home/Library/Preferences/ and will begin with "com.apple.".
Copy the appropriate files and folders to their corresponding locations on your computer.

Backing Up And Restoring Mail

To my dismay I have to completely reinstall my operating system, which happens to be OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.4. I need to back-up mail to my external hard drive and then put it back the way it was after the OS install. I need to retain all my emails etc. Can someone please walk me through the process? Thanks so much for any assistance.

You can use the external drive for Time Machine if you have your media on it. However, Time Machine may try and back it up as well and thus it will take a lot of space.
When you restore using Migration Assistant from a Time Machine backup, you have the options to restore Applications, System Settings, and User Data. If you only check option #3 then you won't restore anything that could be causing application problems as you're having now. You will have to re-install applications though.
You haven't mentioned why you are reinstalling in the first place. Note that with Mac OS X 10.6, the installer actually will not erase any of your data. You have to explicitly know how to erase the boot disk (by launching Disk Utility via a menu and doing it that way). So if you need a re-install to fix an issue you could go ahead and do it.
Still, though... you really should have a backup plan. REALLY

Restoring Mail from Time Machine onto a different Macbook

My 2008 MBP died given the well known NVidia video card problem. Since Apple called my MBP an "antique" and any service or warranty due to the video card issue is expired, I'm left with a heavy paperweight.
I'm not in a position to buy a new MBP currently but I'd like to at least restore my Mail archives and folders from Time Machine onto my Mail on my 2011 MBA. Can I get some tips on the best way to do this?

You could restore your mails from TimeMachine back up with Migration Assistant.

How to restore Mail inbox for one mail account?

I am away from home, and the inbox of one of my mail accounts on my MBP (10.7.3) has lost all its information. When I get home I want to restore (most of) the lost data from my Time Machine backup.
However, I do not want to restore all the accounts and all the mailboxes, just the one that was lost.
How to I find the Inbox for that account, in order to use the older file in Time Machine to restore it with?
DN

You just go to the mailbox in Mail that the messages are missing from and then, from there, choose Enter Time Machine from the Time Machine menu bar icon. You'll see the Time Machine interface, showing the current version of that mailbox, and you can go back in time to when the messages were still there. Then select the messages you want to restore (all of them, I'd guess) and restore them. They'll show up in a new mailbox (Recovered Messages or something? I forget exactly what it's called), and you can move them back to where you want from there.

Restore mail from time machine

Help needed please!
I have recently restored Lion OSX but in doing so my mailboxes have disappeared. I have Time Machine so tried to enter it but the restore points only go back to the date I restored Lion. I can see other backups in the route of Time Capsule which suggests that previous backup files are available but I cannot access them from Time Machine.
Any suggestions please?
Thanks
Steve

Sometime the Library folder are hidden and you cannot see it.
Try this:
Press and hold down the Option key.
Pull down the Go menu in Finder.
Select Library.
You can now release Option.
You should then be able to find the Mail folder there.

How do I restore mail from Time Machine after a clean Yosemite install?

I've been having various performance issues with my iMac recently (wifi keeps dropping off, scan functionality on my multifunction printer stopped working, whole system periodically hangs) so decided to do a clean install of Yosemite. I also have a MacBook Air, also running Yosemite, and on which I have no issues with the wifi, printer or system performance.
Before doing the clean install, I made sure I had a current Time Machine backup. The process appears to have worked so far, but I have run into an issue restoring my mail. I think it best if I describe how I have restored my documents and then I can show at what point I run into a problem.
To restore documents, I opened Time Machine, used the keyboard shortcut command-shift-C to show the backups prior to the clean install, and then selected the documents I wanted to restore. This was simple and worked perfectly.
To restore my mail, I opened Mail, selected 'Enter Time Machine' from the shortcut menu at the top of the screen and then used the keyboard shortcut command-shift-C to show the backups prior to the clean install. This is where I got stuck as command-shift-C is a default shortcut in Mail that shows the colours dialog box. Hence I have been unable to view the correct backup. The backup I want is listed on the right hand side of the screen in Time Machine, but I can't work out how to select it.
I thought changing the shortcut in Mail might work, but I couldn't find a way to do that either since it is not listed in the Keyboard section of System Preferences.
Any ideas gratefully received.
OS X Yosenite 10.10.1
iMac 3.5GHz Intel Core i7, 32GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M 4GB
Mail 8.1

Hey there,
It sounds like you're still having trouble exposing the proper library folder. You can use the following terminal command to do it globally (this will show all hidden files)
Open Terminal from your appliications folder and copy/paste this into it:
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE (press return)
**After that last line you'll need to restart the finder so use:
killall Finder (press return)
Now if you enter Time Machine the correct Library should be visible. To re-hide your hidden files repeat the process above but replace TRUE with FALSE, then use the "killall Finder" again.
I agree with the commenters above, you should restore the Mail library to the desktop and then re-import it to Mail. This is how I was instructed to solve this problem by Mac help, who I chatted with online for quite a while before they figured it out.
Hope this helps

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