Lost mail accounts after OS 10.11 upgrade

I agree - I'm sure the OS is fine but the update itself has a major issue as it relates to Mail. When I upgraded, it seemed to roll my Mail program back to about a year ago. I have deleted, re-added, and renamed various email accounts over the last year, a couple of accounts were archived but viewable, and had a couple of new ones. It's as though it pulled my mail preferences from an old profile. All they could tell me was to delete what was currently in there and re-add the IMAP account info. It had to pull this information from somewhere but Apple couldn't help.

... there are two menu bars, one with the send button and one with the formats:

I cannot add "send" to the format bar or collapse both menu bars into one. Looks like Apple sacrificed usability for perceived beauty.

Now that I've finally figured everything else out, I agree. This is the biggest annoyance. The "send" button is not in an intuitive place, so while it's easy to get used to things after time normally, this is just a really stupid design change.

It is disappointing they've managed to mess up the updater and messed up the email migration from the v2 structure to the v3 structure. Otherwise El Capitan is quite good.

After reimporting my mailboxes under 10.11.1 they now all reside under the V2 directory rather than the V3. All very strange.

Well thanks Apple. Awoke my iMac this morning to discover that El Capitan had been automatically upgraded in my absence to 10.11.1 which is supposed to have corrected the email set up bug. It has successfully recreated all the POP3 email accounts I had prior to original upgrade, but has lost all the On My Mac folders I had carefully recreated after the original upgrade mess. Also as El Capitan did not allow set up of POP3 accounts I had to set up all the accounts again using IMAP, which was a pain but didn't take too long. However, this latest upgrade has now left me with two versions of each Inbox, one POP3 and the other IMAP and one mailbox appears to have lost all of it's email, from both versions (admittedly, many of the messages in this box had been moved their by rules set up within Mail so may be retreivable).

So I now have to set up all the local folders again and check all the rules are there and working. Another wasted morning!!

El Capitan is the worst upgrade to a new version I have seen thus far.

I've just installed the update to El Capitan... now I have no mail at all. It won't open. Tried everything and can't get it to open. Everything is so painfully slow and all the apps are not responding when I go to open them. Terrific Apple! I whole day wasted, no work, no study completed. A day dicking around with something that was obviously not ready to be released. A class action for loss of income may be a good way for them to get their act together before wreaking havoc on all OS X users. Just not good enough.

So what's the so called fix now? any ideas or do we just all sit and wait for yet another update/patch to fix the fixes.

Did you delete the MailData folder? That worked for me. Updating to 10.11.1 was without problems.

After upgrading tot EC my permissions are messed up though. I have to give my password for the stupidest things. This happened when I upgraded tot Y too and when I tried to reclaim my permissions I totally screwed up the OS and had to perform a clean install. Im too scared to tinker with the permissions now.

MailData are just the prefs. You can drag them to the desktop and put them back if it didn't work. The method I used and described in an earlier post just worked perfectly. I got everything back.

I just installed the 10.11.1 upgrade and it actually reloaded all of my missing emails. I don't know what else may have been screwed up yet though. 😝

I just upgraded to 10.11.1 and all my SMTP server parameters are still messed up as in 10.11. If anyone has a clue of how to solve these issues... please write! Thanks