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Mail.app bug
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Apr 25, 2005, 11:40 PM
 
I noticed a few days ago, what, in my opinion, is a serious bug in Mail. You see, I changed all my e-Mail addresses. Although I was able to maintain all my old inbox messages, I later realized that all my old "sent" messages had been unexpectedly deleted. There was no notification, no dialog box. They are all gone.

It decided to start from scratch with the messaged I've sent from my new accounts. I searched to see if they had been saved or archived in another folder in Mail, and found nothing. I suppose they may still exist, but they do not accessible via Mail.app. I find this destructive, or at least, apparently destructive (if the messages are still truly invisibly saved somewhere) behavior rather un-Apple like and unacceptable.
     
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Apr 26, 2005, 02:54 AM
 
Are you shure you didn't delete the account and created a new one? If so Mail deletes the old account - including emails, and it should warn you.
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Apr 27, 2005, 07:44 AM
 
Originally Posted by JLL
Are you shure you didn't delete the account and created a new one? If so Mail deletes the old account - including emails, and it should warn you.
I don't recall being warned, however maybe I'll test this out later.


Copenhagan, huh?... I just did a report on Hans Christian Anderson.
     
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Apr 27, 2005, 08:02 AM
 
Originally Posted by Gabriel Morales
Copenhagan, huh?... I just did a report on Hans Christian Anderson.
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