[muglo] Re: Mail question

  • From: Wayne Dobson <pwdobson@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "muglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <muglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 10:11:41 -0500

I'm not surprized nobody answered this. I don't think anyone knows why  
Mail behaves like it does. When it works, it's great. It stops working  
when it feels like it and fixes itself when you aren't looking. This  
iPhone post has a 50% chance of getting through.

Sent from my iPhone

On Dec 14, 2009, at 8:23 PM, Douglas Plumley <dplumley@xxxxxxxxxxxx>  
wrote:

> I was just helping someone with a Mail.app problem.
>
> Yesterday, the person's Mail.app was working fine. Today, when the  
> computer was turned on, Mail. app would not send or receive mail.  
> The account used was not even listed in the accounts, only MobileMe,  
> which is not activated.
>
> The person is sure that nothing was done to delete the account that  
> had been set up (with a cable co).
>
> The mailboxes for that account were still in the ~/Library/Mail  
> folder.
>
> Adding the previously available account to the 'Accounts' list  
> restored the Mail.app functionality (thank goodness for screen  
> sharing), and importing the mail from the previous/missing account  
> restored all the messages.
>
> My question is: Other than deleting that previously existing mail  
> account, is there any other way that the mail account settings would/ 
> could be deleted?---
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