VIP Mailbox(es) Gone

silphium wrote:

1-month-old M1 MacBook Pro running MacOS Monterey. I did not migrate my user info from my old machine. I noticed that my VIP mailboxes were listing only a few recent messages, and sometimes none at all. I removed VIPs from the favorites bar, and now it's completely gone form the sidebar. I've tried removing and re-adding VIPs to no avail. The two VIP plist files are still there and show the correct email addresses. Quitting and relaunching Mail does nothing.

So is there a genius out there who knows how to restore the VIP mailboxes?

see if there is anything here—

Show emails from VIP senders in Mail on Mac - Apple Support

Make a sender a VIP in Mail on iCloud.com - Apple Support

Create or delete mailboxes in Mail on Mac - Apple Support

Mail User Guide for Mac - Apple Support