Is your account IMAP or POP? If IMAP, you're just spinning your wheels trying to rebuild it, because it's not on your machine, it's on your ISP. Just set it up properly and it will magically reappear.
> On Oct 27, 2015, at 1:54 AM, Jean-Christophe Helary > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I'm on El Capitan and I've noticed that Mail did not behave properly for a > little while. It would crash at startup, it would not display the contents > for mailboxes (standard or "smart") if would not handle filters on flags etc. > > So last night I tried to rebuild my inbox. Then I dumped the Envelope and > reimported everything, I did that twice because it was not working properly > and they I realised that my main (work) account had all its mails erased. > > I checked the contents of ~/Library/Mail/V3 etc and indeed, my inbox (but not > the sent/drafts etc) was empty. > > No panic, I have a Time Capsule backup so I just restored the inbox, > reimported everything but even though I had close to 2GB in data *before* the > import, at then end I was left again with an empty inbox. > > What has to be done to properly restore that inbox and get it properly > imported ? > > Jean-Christophe Helary > _______________________________________________ > MacOSX-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk -- Macs R We -- Personal Macintosh Service and Support in the Wickenburg and far Northwest Valley Areas. http://macsrwe.com _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
