[herbnerd]

I bought a Powerbook G4 used and set up my email using the Mail program that comes with the Mac. Because I could not set the computer up under my name I became a user under the old owners name.

I recently backed up everything to an external hard drive and did a clean install. I reinstalled all my data back on the hard drive but when I click on the Mac Mail program it does not show my old account or emails.

How do I get the Mail program to recognize my old settings?

[seanc]

What do you define as 'everything'?

If you backed up your entire hard drive, your settings will be under /Users/<old username>/Library/Mail

[herbnerd]

Everything except the system itself.

Anyway, I think I figured it out. I had to actually reenter my data for the Mail program and then search out the old email files.

Thank you.