What I wanted to do was to create a rule in my Inbox to Trash mail from certain senders after 10 days from received date. I would then apply this rule as I received these emails.
What happened is (obviously I made a mistake) mail deleted ALL my mail from the Inbox that was older than 10 days.
It appears that all deleted emails are in the Trash folder of Mail.
What I want to do now is reverse this or undo it or fix it.
Here are my current thoughts.
1. Go into Mail Trash folder and search out all the important emails that I must keep and put back in the appropriate mailbox Inbox.
This could be a many hours project, but doable and probably a good lesson to me.
2. Create a rule within Trash to undo messages deleted in the past xx days. But, I don’t know if that is possible, would work or even how to do it.
3. Delete the rule that made this all happen, remove each email account from Mail and start over, i.e. adding the various outside mail accounts back.
All of these (important) emails are still on the various outside (gmail, yahoo, etc.) mail servers, except for the Inbox in iCloud Mail.
I did a Time Machine backup about a week ago if that is a possible solution.
Any helpful suggestions, thoughts, ideas from those of you with experience with this and/or with Mail knowledge would be greatly appreciated.
I’ll gladly answer any questions.
What happened is (obviously I made a mistake) mail deleted ALL my mail from the Inbox that was older than 10 days.
It appears that all deleted emails are in the Trash folder of Mail.
What I want to do now is reverse this or undo it or fix it.
Here are my current thoughts.
1. Go into Mail Trash folder and search out all the important emails that I must keep and put back in the appropriate mailbox Inbox.
This could be a many hours project, but doable and probably a good lesson to me.
2. Create a rule within Trash to undo messages deleted in the past xx days. But, I don’t know if that is possible, would work or even how to do it.
3. Delete the rule that made this all happen, remove each email account from Mail and start over, i.e. adding the various outside mail accounts back.
All of these (important) emails are still on the various outside (gmail, yahoo, etc.) mail servers, except for the Inbox in iCloud Mail.
I did a Time Machine backup about a week ago if that is a possible solution.
Any helpful suggestions, thoughts, ideas from those of you with experience with this and/or with Mail knowledge would be greatly appreciated.
I’ll gladly answer any questions.