On 12 Jul 2013, at 16:14 , Carl Hoefs <[email protected]> wrote:
> One of my primary IMAP email accounts is really messed up, so I thought I > would delete it from Mail.app and re-add it. However when I go to delete it, > I get this ominous warning: > > The account’s setup information, > mailboxes, and all messages will > be deleted permanently from your > computer. Cancel | Remove > > Why does it have to delete everything? Because that's what it does in Mail.app. > Is there a way to preserve the years of emails I have? If it's an IMAP account all the emails are on the server, right? > I just want to recreate the account and leave all the contents there. OSX > allows you to do this when you delete a user account, so why not also when > deleting an email account? Because part of the process of creating an imap account is grabbing all the mail off the server, I guess. Alternatively, Time Machine? There really aren't that many settings for the account, why can't you just change them? -- "Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence." - H. L. Mencken _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
