Restore Apple Mail Inbox

In step #2 you need to hold down the option key then select library, mail and then move on to TM. here is the steps again:

To restore mailbox:

Open Finder

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

Click on Library

Open mail folder

Open V9 or V10 (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 the entire folder to your desktop

Go back into mail and import that folder from your desktop

MartinLiss wrote:

1. I use a Gmail account for my Apple Mail under Sonoma, and in my Inbox I kept several emails that were months old. Today I was writing a new Apple Mail rule and I made a mistake that caused most of the messages (including the old ones) to be deleted.

I can restore the recent ones from Trash, but because the old messages are older than 1 month,

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how can I restore them? I've thought of the following two possibilities:

Note—

IMAP accounts stay on the server, so no local loss, when you re-sync

POP accounts download and remove from the server—therefor save your inbox/sent box if you want them

“On My Mac" is just that, local folders you created and moved mail into. So no loss

Mail has a setting for erasing deleted trash— I prefer manually.

I do not see how your are going to recover trashed and deleted email.

I'm afraid if not in TM or the server then they are gone.