Mail help!!

[macguymike]

I just switched ISPs from Verizon to Comcast. As I was setting up Mail for my new Comcast e-mail addy, I got deleted the Verizon info from my Accounts.

Now, I can't find any of my old e-mails from that account!! What happened? I checked in /user/library/mail but there's only the new account.

I've never heard of a mail app deleting all the mail related to an account just because I removed the settings for it.

Is there any way to recover all of those e-mails?? Where did they go?

Please help!

 

[macguymike]

Okay.. it does delete all associated mailboxes. That's REALLY lame. Outlook doesn't do that. Entourage doesn't do that (I don't think?). Why the heck does Mail do that??

I haven't backed up in a couple weeks and all those e-mails are gone now.

Hopefully I'll be able to find the .mbox files with Norton Systemworks...

 

[macguymike]

No such luck with Norton.

Anyone else have a problem with how unintuitively this works??

Just because I'm no longer using an account does not mean I no longer need the e-mails from it!!

 

[bondipete]

sympathy here

Man, exactly the same thing happened to me. I lost heaps of emails. Bad, bad design. I wish I could help, but all I can offer is my sympathy.