How to restore the mail accounts from Time Machine

[Steveatesh]

Earlier today I was trying to resolve an issue with the iMac involving the screen going blank when using FaceTime. I called Apple for help and they went through a few things and finally asked me to erase the hard drive and reinstall macOS Sierra from scratch.

No problem I thought as I have Time Machine running.

Anyway, I think I have everything re-installed and running with the exception of Apple mail.

I have managed to restore all the messages in the Inbox but none of the email accounts (I had 4) that existed. So I have a single inbox with all my received emails, but no accounts and therefore no Sent box etc.

I have tried going to the library, to mail and restoring from earlier in the day. I've done this several times but nothing restores the actual accounts.

What am I doing wrong or how do I restore the mail accounts please?

Last resort I can manually do it but I wanted to avoid that if I can.

Thanks in anticipation.

iMac 27" Retina running macOS Sierra 10.12.1
(To make matters worse it didn't resolve the problem either - screen still goes blank when using FaceTime at the same moment the Energy saver is set!)

 

[IngerMan]

Did you go to system preferences and sign into your icloud account. Also check boxes in those accounts. Just a thought, I always have to do that after a restore.

 

[Steveatesh]

Yes I have checked that thanks, I'm signed in. The mail accounts are missing from the mail app still.

When you said check boxes in those accounts what specifically odd you mean?

 

[IngerMan]

Yes I have checked that thanks, I'm signed in. The mail accounts are missing from the mail app still.

When you said check boxes in those accounts what specifically odd you mean?

I just meant the boxes in sys prefs

 

[Steveatesh]

Thanks I had those checked.

 

[wepiii]

What type of mail? You might just have to add your password in and let it sync back up if its imap