POP.

JC

> On Oct 27, 2015, at 18:00, Macs R We <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 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 
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