Where do Deleted mailboxes go.

I deleted a mailbox because I thought the messages would be saved in the new smart mailbox I had just created. Well that wasn't very smart of me because they didn't stay and now all those messages are gone and I can't find them. I was wondering if anyone knew where these messages went. I had messages back from August in there and where they are imported from only keeps six months worth. Can anyone shed light on if I can get these Messages back?

When deleting a mailbox, the mailbox is deleted from the hard drive after selecting OK at the warning message.
A Smart Mailbox is only a virtual mailbox which contains a pointer to the original message in the originating mailbox only - not a copy of the message. Depending on the Smart Mailbox criteria, it is possible for a particular message to be available in a number of different Smart Mailboxes. Deleting the original message from the originating mailbox for a message that is available in a Smart Mailbox will also remove the message from the Smart Mailbox.
Instead of creating a Smart Mailbox for this purpose, select New Mailbox instead which creates an actual mailbox.
To try to recover the deleted messages will require using a data recovery utility such as FileSalvage with no guarantee and the more you use your computer and access the hard drive, you lesson your chances of recovering this data by any means.
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Also one of the reasons for creating and maintaining a regular backup.

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Not sure if you ever solved this but I stumbled upon your question after spending hours trying to do this myself.
I followed all sorts of advice - finding the mail folder, moving the mailboxes etc etc... But every time I re-opened mail they were still there and the files I'd moved were back where they started!
Anyway - turns out is really simple.....
Open Mail
Open Preferences (in the Mail menu)
Select the Accounts tab
Highlhight the account you want to delete
Find the + and - buttons to the bottom left of the window
Select the - button and volia! Pesky mailbox that has wasted far too much of my life already, is now gone!
Hope this stops you or someone else from wasting any more of your life on what's actually a really simple thing!

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Hi,
i current had a problem with my mail.app, where all the mailboxes got deleted from my mail.app. When i went to the preferences>accounts it didn't appear a single account there, and before i used to have 5 diff accounts logged on my mail.app.
I just added the accounts again, and it went perfectly with my 3 gmails account, once that the main sever (gmail) kept all the emails in the inbox, and i was able to get everything back. But i am having a hard time to restore all my email from my 2 hotmails accounts. I seems that my hotmail sever was not keeping my emails in the inbox because once i logged in in the hotmail website, my inbox was clear, and all the emails were in the deleted folder. I had stuff from 3 years in my mail.app that i cant find, i was just able to recover until early october from the main sever.
I do not have a time machine up to date, so getting a back up from it is not an option. I want to believe that when the mailboxes got deleted from the mail.app it didn't delete all my emails. So i would like to know if there is anyway i can recover somehow those emails, maybe after the deletion they moved somewhere in my mac, coz i already looked in the library>mail and is not there, just the current ones are there.
I would appreciate any help.
Thanks

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Connected where and how the mailbox can be deleted?
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try this or read the link below hope this helps
Perform the following steps on your device, which includes built-in Email client:
Select Menu
Select Email
Select Settings
Select Mail for Exchange
Select Options
Select Remove mailbox
Select Yes
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http://www.nokia-ph-gs.com/nokiamessaging/faq.php
If i have helped at all a click on the white star below would be nice thanks.
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Hello,
When i go to exchange EAC in O365 and go to deleted mailboxes, i recieved this error:
ERROR
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any ideas?
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Can you be more specific about where you are going to access "deleted mailboxes". I do not see any such selection in my Exchange Admin Center.

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I have been back to my ISP to get help from him since Apple were singularly unhelpful when asking for help on creating the Folders in the first place, I thought it politic to go to the ISP first! They have yet to come back to me.
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how can i remove the email add from a deleted mailbox from the prompts of the 'from' field?

Thanks a lot, roam! That worked

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Hi,
Ive constantly had problems with mail app since upgrading to mountaion lion. 8/10 time i have to force quit mail but thats not the main problem. I have been trying to delete all my mailboxes however the "Delete Mailbox" option is always greyed out therefore I went to system preferences>Mail,Contacts..., then selected the accounts and clicked " - " and deleted the accounts successfully.
Weird thing is that the mailboxes still show in mail app. I have no accounts showing in preferences as i have deleted everything but when i open mail app, everything is still there.
Anyone have an idea, what is going here? Wish it could be like windows, just uninstall and install the app again -_-
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I found this link for a similar problem someone had with a Lotus Notes account. I used it to resolve my issue with a different email account (basically followed the same steps, and then looked for the particular account I needed to delete)... hope it helps!
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Before I go anywhere, let me explain what I mean by "Not Deleted" mailboxes - We will be deleting and recreating a pair of databases this weekend. A s part of this process, we move all mailboxes from these databases to the other 22 mailbox databases
in the corporation, leaving our databases empty. We then run a command to find the soft-deleted and disconnected mailboxes and handle them (remove the former and reconnect the latter so we can move them to another database). When I ran this script
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Will

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We couldn't connect an account to this mailbox, nor could we delete it - the command (below) said the mailbox was on another database (which it was).
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2. The command was what I show above.
Post Mortem: Since we had to delete the database, and since neither of them were needed, we just went forward with our work. I was hoping we'd be able to remove these mailboxes gracefully, but none of the tools we had available worked for the
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Wheres the delete key on my macbook?

hi there,
i've just been trying to use shortcuts more often because they make life a **** of alot easier, but where is the delete key on my keyboard? i can see it on my step dads iMac keyboard but there isn't one on my macbook keyboard. is there a key i can press along with another to do the same command?
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Thanks, lol - I hesitated before I hit the 'post message' box thinking to myself 'they have to know where a deleted key is?!' ...then thought to myself 'what the heck do I know about other keyboards anyway!'.
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Default "Deleted Mailbox" in email profile

Hi,
On my iPhone, I have created a new profile for IMAP email settings via a .mobileconfig download and install. However, the default "Deleted Mailbox" is Trash. On deleting mail, the user gets "Unable to Move Message. The message could not be moved to the mailbox Trash". I guess this is because "Trash" does not exist on the IMAP server.
Is their aDefaultDeleteFolder in .mobileconfig I am missing?
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David
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