Restoring mail from time machine not possible anymore?

[TwoBytes]

Years I ago, I copied folders from my time machine to my new Mac installation and everything was there as I Last left it;
unread mail, badges, mailboxes, all accounts connected, etc - the lot. Like nothing ever happened! No config, no rebuilding etc.

I can't seem to do that anymore. I have tried restoreing
Library>Mail
Library>Containers>Mail

Has anyone any tips?
I want to restore exactly. I know it's not ideal but I have so many unread, several pop3 accounts etc.

I have a TM and a CarbonCopyClone of my drive.
Monterey 12.1

 

[Fishrrman]

"I have a TM and a CarbonCopyClone of my drive."

If nothing else works, I'd like to offer a workaround.

- Connect your CCC cloned backup.
- Open Mail
- Choose "import mailboxes". (this is not the same as "a restore")
- Now, navigate to home/library/mail on the CCC cloned backup
- Try importing the folder "Mail"
- I believe this will import all the old mail (and mailboxes) into your NEW Mail app (and library).
- The imported mailboxes will probably show up as a "new mailbox" with a name like "imported mail" or something like that.
- You will have to manually "relocate" things, but being able to do this is better than not being able to import the old mail at all...

Let us know if you try this, and if it works...

 

[NoBoMac]

Under Library/Mail/V9/MailData are a bunch of "Envelope Index" files. Exit Mail, then rename those to something (just to be safe). Start Mail. Those files should get rebuilt.

Otherwise, not sure how v15 is doing things now, but this has always been hit/miss for me. And there are a bunch of other places that Mail might be hiding data. For example: Library/Group Containers/Mail, Library/Containers/com.apple.mail, Library/Application Support

 

[TwoBytes]

Thanks for the help with this. Mainly wanted to say that and to help anyone else - it didn't work.
Something changed in the OS as it was possible to restore but now it's not. I've restored to migrating my data which is the only way for some reason to bring back your profile as it was.

If anyone is reading this in the future, please post if you restored your mail to how it was before!