Anne, This may also help, depending upon how you have your mail prefs set up. Some messages may still be on your service’s mail server.
Check [Mail > Preferences > General (or) Accounts] and see how your Mail Prefs are set up. This may provide a clue where to look for some of them. -russ preston > On Apr 22, 2016, at 10:44 AM, Anne Cartwright <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks Bill, > > You've given me a lot of places to look. Hopefully I'll be able to figure it > out and make my life easier. > > I tend to use Mail as a filing cabinet of correspondence that I want to save > fore some reason. Probably should try and find out if there is an easy way to > save and file mail outside of mail. > > Anne > > > > On Apr 22, 2016, at 9:22 AM, Bill Rising <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> MacGroup mailing list >> Posting address: [email protected] >> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/> >> Answers to questions: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/> > > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > Posting address: [email protected] > Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/> > Answers to questions: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/> _______________________________________________ MacGroup mailing list Posting address: [email protected] Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/> Answers to questions: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/>
