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Mail.app is acting hinky again for me. For some reason I was not receiving mail from one particular source whom I knew sent me an email today at my gmail address (which I also POP via Mail.app). So I just created a new rule to allow mail with that address in the From field. I then told Mail to Apply the new rule to existing mail as well. In a flash, I lost all but one email in my inbox. And of course now I can't "undo" anything. What the heck happened? And more importantly, can I get all that email back?
Safe Boot worked to fix a different Mail.app problem the other day, but I'm guessing this is something totally different. I do have a Time Machine backup if that will help.
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what was the email in the "from" field?
And what did your rule say to do with those emails?
If you said "move all emails from xxx.com to Folder "xxx"" then thats where they went to?
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The default rule moves the messages to a folder, but you have to specify a folder.
Which folder did you specify? That's where those messages are.
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The rule was:
If From contains subaruforester.org
Perform the following actions:
Stop Evaluating Rules
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The problem is it cleaned out my entire inbox of all emails, no matter whom they were from (well, all except one, which has nothing to do with anything).
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What I'm wondering is if I just trash the existing Mail folder from my ~Library, and replace it with the same folder from my Time Machine backup, should I get them back? It would seem logical. I don't need to let Time Machine do a restore do I?
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I would just let Time Machine do the restore.
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That rule would do nothing.
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Type your first name in the search box in the upper right corner of the Mail window.
Right-click on the word "From" which will be the title of a column in the search-results and select "Mailbox" from the menu that pops up.
In the search-results, look for a message that was formerly in your Inbox. On the same line as the title of the message, you should be able to see what mailbox that message now resides in.
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Doc wrote:
That rule would do nothing.
Yeah, I was hoping that rule would do nothing.
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Doc wrote: Type your first name in the search box in the upper right corner of the Mail window.
Okay...
Doc wrote: Right-click on the word "From" which will be the title of a column in the search-results and select "Mailbox" from the menu that pops up.
Can't right click on From (or any of the headings). Doesn't do anything.
Doc wrote: In the search-results, look for a message that was formerly in your Inbox. On the same line as the title of the message, you should be able to see what mailbox that message now resides in.
All my other mailboxes show up in the right column and all the messages that were in those mailboxes are there. My actual Inbox has but one message. And if I expand the Inbox on the left side of mail, all my individual accounts show up, but there are no messages in any of those folders, either.
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I understand what you're saying, and in theory, yes it should work. But what I'm telling you is that something is fscked up. I'd be happy to make you a screen movie and send it to you to prove it.
For example. I know I received a couple of emails yesterday from a client. If I search all mailboxes and enter the person's name in the search bar and select the from folder, the only emails that show up are the ones I've already filed in my "freelance related" folder, and the most recent was a few weeks ago, because I haven't gotten around to filing my inbox emails yet.
