POP Mail account recovery.

That is how old protocol POP accounts work. You can check with your email provider regarding whether or not they retain backups/archives.

Use IMAP protocol rather than POP protocol for email. IMAP retains email on the email server. POP protocol downloads email off the server to your device.

This is the process to try to recover a mailbox:

To restore mailbox:

Open Finder

Click “GO” in top menu bar then click option key

Open mail folder

Open V9 (or similar) folder

Then find the folders labeled with cryptic titles (at this point you could open TM if you want to go back in time)

Look down through those folders to find a mailbox (note: there may be more than one with same label).

If it contains email you want you can copy to desktop

Go back into mail and import that folder from your desktop

If you have a time machine backup these my be in your library/mail directory

Really hope the user reading the good advise from tbirdvet above.

This may save your bacon

Think in Ventura it would be V10

MscBa wrote:

Thanks for your response.

I was expressly told they do not retain a copy. As a major email provider, I remain skeptical they do not. Researching further ...

Sorry that you find yourself in this situation but no one is responsible for your data except you. Going forward, make sure you use IMAP protocol and maintain your own backups.