hillb wrote:
worked like a charm. thanks.
Yay!
I noticed all my emails had disappeared except for the most recent. My laptop and iphone sync via iCloud, and everything was gone from my iphone as well. Gone for good?
I'm a it out of my depth, but part of that may be whether it's a POP or IMAP account. Doing that seems to work, usually, on an IMAP account, but not POP.
Even with IMAP, I think stuff more than a month or so old may disappear.
Have you looked in your backups, via the special handling for Mail (see the link in Time Machine - Frequently Asked Question #15). That may not find the older account, though -- it's only looking for backups of the recreated account, even if it has the same name.