Probably the best thing to have done would have been to archive local mail stores (Mailbox-->Archive Mailbox), blow out the account (or delete the preferences in the user Library) and, if everything worked in the new account, restore the Archive by importing it (or just leave it as an archive until/if you needed it).
As some folks suggested, check your Mailbox behaviors (in Mail Preferences) to adjust how long things stay on the server, and confirm whether your local folders are echoed on the server, or are only local. John Subject: Re: When mail goes bad... The messages should still be on the Exchange server, no? On Jul 7, 2010, at 12:08 PM, Jerry LeVan wrote: > Today my MacBook Pro Mail program went batsh*t crazy. > > I got a spinning wheel next to my Exchange account and > it would not go away. Rebooting did not help the situation. > > I could not send or receive mail from the Exchange account using > Mail.app on the MBP but I could send/receive mail using the iPhone > Exchange account and my Fedora Boxen could talk to the mail server using > imap. > > I decided that the problem probably was on my MBP. > > The only thing I could think of was to delete the account > and create a new Exchange account on the MBP. > > This worked but I lost all of my stored messages. > > Is there anything else I could have done? > > Thanks, > > Jerry > > _______________________________________________ > MacOSX-admin mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin ======================= Mike Friedman MGF Consulting Computers without Attitude http://www.mgfconsulting.net 415-823-9990 Instant Message AIM/Yahoo: sfmike64 From: John Musbach <[email protected]> Date: July 10, 2010 10:42:30 AM PDT To: Mike Friedman <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected], [email protected] Subject: Re: When mail goes bad... On 7/9/10, Mike Friedman <[email protected]> wrote: > The messages should still be on the Exchange server, no? I thought the same thing... Maybe the op had mail set to delete messages from the server after a certain period of time. If so, now he should realize why that's a bad idea. > > > On Jul 7, 2010, at 12:08 PM, Jerry LeVan wrote: > >> Today my MacBook Pro Mail program went batsh*t crazy. >> >> I got a spinning wheel next to my Exchange account and >> it would not go away. Rebooting did not help the situation. >> >> I could not send or receive mail from the Exchange account using >> Mail.app on the MBP but I could send/receive mail using the iPhone >> Exchange account and my Fedora Boxen could talk to the mail server using >> imap. >> >> I decided that the problem probably was on my MBP. >> >> The only thing I could think of was to delete the account >> and create a new Exchange account on the MBP. >> >> This worked but I lost all of my stored messages. >> >> Is there anything else I could have done? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Jerry >> >> _______________________________________________ >> MacOSX-admin mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin > > > > > ======================= > Mike Friedman > MGF Consulting > Computers without Attitude > http://www.mgfconsulting.net > 415-823-9990 > Instant Message AIM/Yahoo: sfmike64 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > MacOSX-admin mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin > -- Best Regards, John Musbach _______________________________________________ MacOSX-admin mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin _______________________________________________ MacOSX-admin mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin
