On Apr 21, 2016, at 21:41, Anne Cartwright <[email protected]> wrote:

> I have some files on my computer that are in Mail but not in a mailbox where 
> I can find them.

I'm confused. Does this mean they are mail messages, but that the messages do 
not appear in Message Viewer of Mail.app? I'm guessing this means that if you 
search for them in Mail, you find nothing.

Did these go missing when you upgraded to El Capitan? I had troubles with 
zillions of missing mail messages. The messages went missing if they were in 
mailboxes within mailboxes. 

> I would like to get them back into Mail proper in an appropriate mailbox.
> 
> When I use spotlight to find one it shows up as Mail>34346.emix. Ho do I find 
> them and can I safely move them back into Mail proper?

If you can figure out that they are in something that is already in 
~/Library/Mail, you can rebuild your mailboxes.

If they are from an IMAP account, you can try deleting the account, killing its 
emails, and the recreating the account and letting mail download all kabillion 
messages again.

If you can find where they are saved on your computer, and they are not within 
Mail then
  If they are already in a folder, you can try to import them (see below)
  If they are scattered, you can put them in a folder an then try to import them

To import the files you can try
  File > Import Mailboxes...  and choose Apple Mail
and navigate to the folder holding the emails.

If that fails you can then try
  File > Import Mailboxes... and choose Files in mbox format
and navigate to the folder holding the emails.

Bill

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