[coitus]

Well, I managed to do a very dumb thing this morning because Mail.app wasn't working and had switched everything to Read-Only, not allowing me to delete files and it was "unexpectedly quit". I decided that if I trashed the .plist file in the Preferences folder it would make everything all better. Yea, in my haste I neglected to copy (for safe-keeping the file). Upon restart and launching Mail.app it made a new mailbox for my iTools account (mac.com) ignoring my previous setup for the four different email accounts I have. How can I rectify my situation without losing my mail in the folders presently?

I really want to avoid adding all the accounts again via Mail's Preferences but don't know any other way. I've tried to find some Import work-around but have met with no success.

Many thanks,

coitus

[Subzero Diesel949]

Deleting the plist file will not cause you to lose your mail. The reason your mailboxes are read-only are because either they are locked or there is an issue with permissions. You will have to make yourself the owner of those mailboxes (using the chown command).

[coitus]

Originally posted by Subzero Diesel949:
<STRONG>Deleting the plist file will not cause you to lose your mail. The reason your mailboxes are read-only are because either they are locked or there is an issue with permissions. You will have to make yourself the owner of those mailboxes (using the chown command).</STRONG>

No, I'm aware I never lost my mail but I didn't want to do anything further to screw up the situation. I ended up solving my problem by deleting the default Mail.app iTools mac.com account. From there I added all my accounts from scratch via the Mail.app Preferences pane.

While it took a little bit of time all my goodies have been restored and the issue with the permissions has resolved itself as well. I don't think it matters but it should have never been a permission issue as I am the sole user and admin on my box.

Thanks just the same...

coitus