Lost emails on mail

[guruminga]

Hi

Running mail with 2 email accounts, one old one that I could still recieve emails from but not send any; the other is the main email that I use. I deleted the old account then could not send any emails. I spoke to my ISP and have fixed the sending problem, but now I seem to have lost a heap of emails, possibly all the ones that had been sent to the old account but also a long one that my wife had just written that was in drafts as it was unable to send.

I would appreciate it if anyone could shed some light on my problem, and maybe offer a solution. Essentially we want to recover the emails we recieved, and the one that was in drafts.

Cheers

G

 

[miles01110]

Is it a POP or IMAP account?

 

[guruminga]

is it a pop or imap account?

pop

 

[Tumbleweed666]

Are you using Time Machine? That's recovered emails for me before now.

Open up mail and then go into TM, you'll see a message like 'click recover to retrieve an inbox or click on a folder to restore'. You should presumably be looking at either sent items or draft or some such.

IME the retrieved emails get moved back into a folder within a main folder called 'time machine'.

 

[guruminga]

Are you using Time Machine? That's recovered emails for me before now.

Open up mail and then go into TM, you'll see a message like 'click recover to retrieve an inbox or click on a folder to restore'. You should presumably be looking at either sent items or draft or some such.

IME the retrieved emails get moved back into a folder within a main folder called 'time machine'.

Thanks Tumbleweed, unfortunately I'm not using Time Machine. I recently got myself a big external drive for back-ups, etc. But haven't hooked it up yet.

Cheers

G

 

[Tumbleweed666]

Thanks Tumbleweed, unfortunately I'm not using Time Machine. I recently got myself a big external drive for back-ups, etc. But haven't hooked it up yet.

Cheers

G

Well there you go, you do need to plug it in and click 'yes' to the TM prompt before it will work

 

[hirameagle]

What if it's an IMAP acct?

Are you using Time Machine? That's recovered emails for me before now.

Open up mail and then go into TM, you'll see a message like 'click recover to retrieve an inbox or click on a folder to restore'. You should presumably be looking at either sent items or draft or some such.

IME the retrieved emails get moved back into a folder within a main folder called 'time machine'.

Tumbleweed....I had a POP and was having trouble sending mail to large mail "groups", so set up another acct, this time it was set up as an IMAP acct (I guess since I had installed Snow Leopard in the interim). I THOUGHT that had solved the problem and I was getting mail twice, so I deleted the old POP acct and lost my old Inbox and Sent box.

Thos old boxes appear to be there in TM. Can I recover them into the new IMAP acct like you mention about without creating other problems?