Mail just ATE all my EMAIL!

[Lapdance Jockey]

im totally freaking out

i turned on my Junk Mail feature - and had it "move it to the junk mailbox" automatically

and NOW ALL OF MY MAIL IS GONE

2 years of email - POOF


any thoughts?? i just can't believe it would delete all of that email - that doesnt make any sense... for turning on a junk mail feature????

many thanks to anyone who can help

 

[flopticalcube]

Isn't it all just in your junk mail box?

 

[mad jew]

Quit Mail and check the folder aptly named Mail in your Home folder's Library. Does it appear that your emails are still here?

 

[Eric5h5]

Is it not backed up? Anything remotely important to you must be backed up. Otherwise one day it really WILL be gone (poof!) because your hard drive WILL fail....

--Eric

 

[Lapdance Jockey]

ok --- so i went in to prefs. and unclicked the junk mail ---

this did nothing

so - out of anger - i just quit the program --- when i opened it back up everything was back to normal....

so weird...

but thanks all

 

[mad jew]

If it's an IMAP account, it can sometimes take a while to display large folders after such massive email movements. Rebuilding the folder with the Mailbox menu can help.