Lost Emails after crash

[Ute Hoffmann]

Thanks a lot! I found them and I can imort them via Applemail. I now 
put them into seperate postboxes, because these did survive the crash 
unharmed and yes, I should look into backup-schemes. Thanks a lot!

Regards,
Ute

Am Freitag, 26.01.07 um 13:02 Uhr schrieb Michael Bentley:

>
> On Jan 26, 2007, at 3:31 AM, Ute Hoffmann wrote:
>>
>>> on a Mac OS X Jaguar I had a bad crash of applemail yesterday 
>>> evening which resultet in the disappearance of an account with all 
>>> its emails. As several important mails were in this account, does 
>>> someone know a way to get the emails back into Apple mail or were 
>>> they somehow "deleted" with the account during that crash. The 
>>> account infos were completely gone.
>>>
>>> Does someone know from which place I could perhapos reimport these 
>>> mails into apple mail or at least the place on the machine were they 
>>> would be put if they were not in a folder but in the mail mail 
>>> account (inbox)?
>
> Look in ~/Library/Mail.  Your inbox folder will be named 'INBOX.mbox' 
> and will be found inside a folder named according to the account type 
> and account name (perhaps something like 
> 'POP-hoffman.ute at t-online.de').
>
> The actual messages are in a folder named 'Messages' inside 
> 'INBOX.mbox'.
>
> If your emails are there, I'd suggest making a copy of the 'Messages' 
> folder (somewhere outside ~Library/Mail -- just in case).  Then try 
> recreating the account to see if your emails are magically returned to 
> you.  If not, I *think* you can just copy all the messages from your 
> just-in-case copy, and paste them into your inbox.
>
> Lemme know if it works ;-)  Either way, perhaps now is a good time to 
> look into backup schemes...
>
> God luck!
>
> Michael
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