Where is mail going

After three years, my Mail finally bit the big one and on advice of another person, I threw away my Pop folder in LIbrary-Mail. Everything came back working, and I still have my old e-mail, but without the folder in LIbrary-Mail, I don't know where it's being put in the computer, which could be a problem later on. Where is the mail being put, so I can back up this key file.
Any help is appreciated.

Hi Tab,
<home>/Library/Mail/POP-<email address> stores the In
and Sent boxes. If you trashed the right (only?) one,
that should be gone. But all messages saved in
mailboxes you create are kept in
<home>/Library/Mail/Mailboxes. Does that explain what
you are seeing?
Good luck,
John
While this was helpful because it made me check all those folders again, I found it in a new folder named POP/TAB, not tabnewsroom as my e-mail address is, underneath the Mailboxes folder. So I have to admit I'm baffled about the why, but at least I know the where for back-up purposes.
Thanks,
Scott

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I have OSX 10.8.2 with the Server App installed.
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Jan 14 06:47:18 server.local postfix/pipe[37427]: 58FCDC7B83C: to=<[email protected]>, orig_to=<johndoe>, relay=dovecot, delay=0.03, delays=0/0/0/0.03, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (delivered via dovecot service)
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My Blueyonder email is coming in but won't send, where am I going wrong with the settings?

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Where does Mail store its email files

hi there, I'm having a bit of an email crisis.
background: I have a MacBook Pro circa 2012 running OS X Yosemite 10.10.2 with over 28 or 29GB of free space.
For email, I have a primary address through Cox Cable and some secondary Cox Cable email accounts for junk mail and the like. Recently, there was some recurring difficulty retrieving the Cox emails. The Mail program would open up and look for the Cox Cable email accounts and variously fail to connect with any of them. The Mail program would tell me that it was unable to access the account and suggest I enter my password.
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(2) If I well and truly deleted the archive not only from my Mail program but also from my laptop, am I able to import my email archive from my external hard drive where it was backed up? I'd like to leave the archive in an archive folder in Mail so that I can see it and search it when necessary without having to plug in my external drive and also so there are two copies of this email archive.
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hi. update. I found the hidden Library folder where the mbox email files are located as follows:
click on your finder to open it
click the GO command from the drop down menu and before clicking again press and hold down the option key. that reveals in the Go drop-down menu the hidden Library folder. Click on that Library folder to open it.
from there, look for a sub folder called Mail
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click on that and you'll find subfolders for the email accounts you've established, inside which are the .mbox files that represent those email databases.
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the good news is that I was backing up somewhat regularly via Time Machine to an external drive. So I recovered the old POP emails into an separate INBOX and SENT MAIL archive that now sits again on my Mac in my Mail program, somewhere below the active mail folders I use daily.
The POP email protocol was lately prone to these 'unable to access' and 'please enter your password' messages and that's what prompted me to try to change my settings. When I did, I must have found that Cox email now supports IMAP for residential customers and made the switch from POP to IMAP, inadvertently deleting the old POP email.
The IMAP protocol resolved the 'unable to access' and 'please enter your password' messages that Mail used to give me under the POP protocol. But left the problem of certain sent mails not being stored immediately in my local sent mail folder on my Mac.
unresolved questions are:
i generally liked switching from POP to IMAP because my email on my phone and laptop are more apt to be in sync and coordinated, and it resolved the connection/password problems I had with POP. I'd like to keep on IMAP. I have experienced the occasional missing sent mail. So far as I can tell, when sending the email from my laptop, I hear the swoosh of sent mail and the recipients do receive it but a copy if not always delivered into my local sent mail folder. a copy of it is stored on the Cox email server, however.
any workaround that issue? It leaves me wondering sometimes whether the mail was sent or received and I also need a record of all email sent on my laptop for future reference.
is it possible this missing sent mail only happens when there are attachments? it doesn't happen every time. I've noticed it has happened when I've sent emails with attachments.
any help you can give is appreciated!
ed

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OK. Verify/repair the startup disk (not just permissions), as described here:
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I know there are other threads on this, but no one seems to have a resolve for it.
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Just got my computer repaired at Apple, new harddrive, new video card. So it's starting anew.
However, even my MacBookAir is putting my GOOD MAIL in my JUNK FOLDER. So it's universal on all my devices.
Why is my mail going to my junk folder. It's annoying to have to check every single piece of mail with "this is not junk" and then drag it to the IN box. And then even that doesn't work. I'll still receive the email from the same sender back into my Junk Folder.
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But I don't know any other proceedures to take to stop ALL MY MAIL from going into the JUNK EMAIL BOX.
Never did that before, so there must be some setting, or not, that is causing it to do that.
I have "enable junk mail filtering" checked. The following types of messages are EXEMPT, my address book, previous recipients, messages using my full name, all checked.
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I amm also having mail going to th wrong accounts, luckily it is only happening to few out of 170+ accounts.
Pterobyte- I seen your suggestions on the other similiar post and cannot seem to find anything wrong in those areas.
I am enclosing current postconf & smtplog for your info.
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Last login: Mon Oct 30 15:00:59 on console
Welcome to Darwin!
Skilster:~ admin$ postconf -n
command_directory = /usr/sbin
config_directory = /etc/postfix
content_filter = smtp-amavis:[127.0.0.1]:10024
daemon_directory = /usr/libexec/postfix
debugpeerlevel = 2
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html_directory = no
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manpage_directory = /usr/share/man
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sample_directory = /usr/share/doc/postfix/examples
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smtpdclientrestrictions = hash:/etc/postfix/smtpdreject
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smtpdtls_keyfile =
smtpduse_pwserver = yes
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Oct 30 15:08:48 Skilster postfix/pickup[66]: 774A7E5F494: uid=27 from=<[email protected]> orig_id=03D0BA4DB9D
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Oct 30 15:08:48 Skilster postfix/qmgr[67]: 28930E5CDD9: from=<[email protected]>, size=1953, nrcpt=2 (queue active)
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Oct 30 15:08:48 Skilster postfix/qmgr[67]: 289AAE4E89C: from=, size=4309, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
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Oct 30 15:09:48 Skilster postfix/qmgr[67]: 2FE9BE4EDC0: from=, size=4463, nrcpt=1 (queue active)

Jeff:
I have gotten hostname as you suggested, and thus far seen one Helo failure prior to that, so thanks for the tip.
The queue is running like 150k to 170k, I've got content filter off right in order to isolate problems.
This wrong account issue is causing some severe creditability issues with this server as you can imagine.
Thanks for the help.

Incoming mail goes to wrong mailbox

I recently created a rule in Mail to send all messages from a certain address to a specific mailbox. Trouble is, now about 50% of ALL my mail goes to that mailbox (instead of the Inbox), even if it doesn't come from the address specified in the rule.
What do I need to do to make sure that incoming messages not otherwise directed by one of my rules all end up in my Inbox?

It sounds like an error in the mail rule. Pay particular attention to the Any or All criteria.
Captfred

Can you customize what folder MAIL goes to when adding attachments?

Can you customize what folder MAIL goes to when adding attachments?
My friend has 2 email addresses for businesses.
He has invoices in folders for both, and wants to set up the Mac like this:
When he writes from one email address and attaches documents - he want the Mac always to go to the corresponding folder for that company of his. Same for the other email address...
Make sense?
Can this be done?
Thanks in advance....

Please read this whole message before doing anything.
This procedure is a diagnostic test. It’s unlikely to solve your problem. Don’t be disappointed when you find that nothing has changed after you complete it.
The purpose of the test is to determine whether your problem is caused by third-party system modifications that load automatically at startup or login.
Disconnect all wired peripherals except those needed for the test, and remove all aftermarket expansion cards. Boot in safe mode* and log in to the account with the problem. The instructions provided by Apple are as follows:
Shut down your computer, wait 30 seconds, and then hold down the shift key while pressing the power button.
When you see the gray Apple logo, release the shift key.
If you are prompted to log in, type your password, and then hold down the shift key again as you click Log in.
*Note: If FileVault is enabled under OS X 10.7 or later, or if a firmware password is set, or if the boot volume is a software RAID, you can’t boot in safe mode. Safe mode is much slower to boot and run than normal, and some things won’t work at all, including wireless networking on certain Macs. The next normal boot may also be somewhat slow.
The login screen appears even if you usually log in automatically. You must know your login password in order to log in. If you’ve forgotten the password, you will need to reset it before you begin. Test while in safe mode. Same problem? After testing, reboot as usual (i.e., not in safe mode) and verify that you still have the problem. Post the results of the test.

Mail goes offline since 10.5.4 update

In the week or so since I did the 10.5.4 upgrade, I've noticed that over the course of the work day (machine is not asleep, and network is supposedly always connected) when I look at my Mail Inbox I periodically see the little warning triangle - the one with the ! in it - next to my Inbox. This supposedly means that Mail cannot get online and is therefore offline. When I see this, I hit "Get Mail"...and when I do, Mail goes out and checks and goes "bonk" and all seems fine. Until it happens again...which could be within minutes or anytime thereafter.
(additional info...) Sometimes when I go to manually check mail (hitting "Get Mail") when the little triangle ISN'T present, this will cause the triangle to appear. Then I hit Get Mail a few times and it goes away. It seems like Mail attaching to the network is a bit of a hit or miss affair.
Thing is, this did not happen before 10.5.4. It's also happening on multiple machines (all Intel MBPs configured similarly) on 2 different networks. These machines have always been set to check for new mail once a minute...and that's clearly what they're trying to do. Before 10.5.4, this worked reliably; but now it doesn't. And again, NOTHING other than 10.5.4 is different. Same ISPs, same routers (all Airports), same MBP hardware. Airport signal strength (as seen in the menubar) seems fine and isn't visibly dropping bars.
Apparently what is happening is that Mail is periodically losing its network connection until you manually force a check for mail. This would imply that 10.5.4 broke something in the way that apps (e.g., Mail and perhaps Safari...which also seems to "not find server" sometimes now) access the network? Has anyone else noticed this?
Message was edited by: jsun

I just found this issue addressed on MacFixIt - http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20080730133625417 is website. Below is a summary.
For some users, this problem is just a matter of corrupted settings files, and removing them may help. To do this, go to the /username/Library/Preferences/ folder and remove the file com.apple.Mail.plist, then restart the Mail application. When Mail starts, enter one account at a time and test each accordingly. For MobileMe users who were switched from .Mac, set up the accounts with the "[email protected]" address instead of the old "@mac.com" address.
I just followed directions and basically I re-created the email accounts. Fortunately, all my old emails still showed up. I hd to reset my preferred "views". I think the new set up process also reset my Comcast settings. A few months ago I had to reset ports (Comast refused to say why), so I will see what happens. But so far so good.

I have an iPhone 4 and an iPod 4th gen linked to the same email address and apple ID. I am trying to set up a new email address for the iPod so a family member can use it but it doesn't want to recognize the new email account. Where am I going wrong?

I have an iPhone 4 and a 4th gen iPod linked to the same email address and apple ID. I am trying to change the email address on the iPod so a family member can use it but when I do it says it doesn't recognize the email address. Where am I going wrong ? I just want them to be able to iMessage and email without having to use my email address.

The procedure is Settings>Messages>Send & Receive at>You can be reached by iMessages at>Add another email address. The email address has to be a valid working email address, obviously. Apple should verify the email address and you have to go to the inbox of that email account, read the verification email from Apple and follow the inductions in the email in order to complete the verification. Then you go back to the settings, uncheck your email address and check the new email address to be used as the contact email address.

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