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ginop1 · Jan 30, 2003, 06:46 PM

For some unknown reason when I went to check my e-mail I got the message that I have no accounts. I can see all my mailboxes in ~Library/Preferences/Mail. Is there a file that I can double-click on in ~Library/Preferences/Mail that will restore my mail settings? By the way, I am using 10.2.3 if that is any help.

m4rtin · Jan 30, 2003, 11:00 PM

Not sure really.

I had a similar problem once when Mail quit due to low space left on the HD. When I started it up again everything was gone...

MauroCol · Feb 11, 2003, 02:13 PM

Did you restored your accounts and settings?

I got without space (well, "only" 320 MB of space) and lost my settings and my accounts, but all the mail appears in my Library folder.

How can I restore it?

I think that this "not enough space" and the lost of Finder, browser, mail and more preferences is the BIGGEST BUG in Mac OS X!!!

Regards,

MaurOS X.

ShotgunEd · Feb 12, 2003, 02:27 AM

Originally posted by MauroCol:
Did you restored your accounts and settings?

I got without space (well, "only" 320 MB of space) and lost my settings and my accounts, but all the mail appears in my Library folder.

How can I restore it?

I think that this "not enough space" and the lost of Finder, browser, mail and more preferences is the BIGGEST BUG in Mac OS X!!!

Regards,

MaurOS X.

I'm having a similar problem. My account is listed in Accounts but it is disabled, the username field is missing and the account name is now what user to be the email address. It won't list my inbox but all the On My Mac mail is ok. I'm running low on HD space as well but I haven't really been doing anything, my HD space just keeps going down and down.

Judge_Fire · Feb 26, 2003, 04:45 AM

[mods, I didn't want to create a new thread, so could you plz move this old one to the right place?]

Boom. Week ago my girlfriend (for a second time), and today me.

Mail crashed and on the next launch, "Welcome to Mail". All my account info and their inboxen are gone from Mail's UI, but do exist in their designated ~/Library/Mail location. Additional 'On My Mac' Mail folders are still there in Mail's UI, no problem.

Rules and signatures survived, they're still there.

This sucks.

Is there any way to force Mail to rescan and notice all the stuff is there in ~Library/Mail/ ?

I've posted this on Apple's boards, too so lets see if a forced rescan or something might exist hidden.

J

Judge_Fire · Feb 26, 2003, 05:46 AM

Addition to the last post;

Good news (for me): Unlike on my girlfriends iBook, my Mail actually brought back the contents of my inbox/trash etc. after I re-entered the account information. That was nice, but I wonder why it doesn't always work.

I noticed Mail's toolbar has reset itself, too, so maybe this has to do with various Applications writing empty prefs on top of existing ones, in low memory/swap file situations and is thus an OS problem in memory management, as suggested in this posting: http://bs.bungie.org/mtarchives/000070.html

Be warned, BTW. I quickly set up Entourage to read my mail while trying to fix this problem. When I got Mail working again and attempted to download two days worth of messages.. they were gone. I hadn't noticed Entourage having a default setting of 'delete messages from server immediately after download'. Small annoyance, but avoidable.

J