Out of the blue today I received an error message saying Mail needed to shut down. When I opened it again, all my previous emails were gone, both from the inbox and from Mailbox folders I created.
From what I can tell they are still available (user/library/mail/POP), however I have no idea how to get them to show up again in my Mail program.
Help!
Mac OS X (10.5.8)
There are two things you can try.
1. Move the file com.apple.mail.plist from your ~user/Library/Preferences folder to the desktop and relaunch Mail. If that's cured the problem, delete the Preferences file you moved to the desktop, otherwise move it back again overwriting the new one Mail just created.
2. Try reinstalling Mail from your Install DVD - this only reinstalls the app itself not the mailboxes, but take a backup of them first, just to be on the safe side.
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