Re: Deleted sent mail in Apple Mail application

On Thu, 17 Nov 2005 08:02:28 +0000, Peter James wrote
(in article <0001HW.BFA1E994000550EBF0284550@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>):

> On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 19:26:12 +0000, Peter James wrote
> (in article <0001HW.BFA13854000112A1F0407550@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>):
>
>> On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 16:29:13 +0000, Richard E Maine wrote
>> (in article <1h641v2.mzf6o7wid6cuN%nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>):
>>
>>> Peter James <pfjamesAT@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I did a backup only 5 days ago. But I only backed up the contents of my
>>>> home
>>>> directory. Are you saying tat this is where the "sent mail" is likely to
>>>> be.
>>>> I had a look at the backup, but couldn't see the sent folder shown.
>>>
>>> As Shawn said, it depends on your configuration details. There are lots
>>> of ways to configure mail. Some of them might not even keep things on
>>> your machine at all. At least my idea of a "normal" (for me)
>>> configuration tends to keep everything on my machine. In that case, yes,
>>> it should be somewhere under your home directory.
>>>
>>> Looking on the machine I'm writing this from (which is still 10.3 - I've
>>> got a mini running 10.4 at home, but I can't look there right now; I
>>> think I recall that some of the details of Mail.app's storage might have
>>> changed in 10.4 to support spotlight), I find my sent mail under my home
>>> directory in the directory (umm, "folder" to some of you)
>>> "Library/Mail/POP-my-email-address/Sent Messages.mbox".
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Many thanks, that's just it! I did a backup 5 days ago luckily, and there
>> the sent mails were just as you said. I copied them across from the backup
>> CD and rebuilt the mailbox and bob's your uncle. Goes to prove the value
>> of
>> a regular backup.
>> My other problem is that I've still got an email in my trash folder that I
>> can't delete, view or move. Do you have any ideas on this. Thanks.
>>
>
> Well I spoke too soon. The files displayed for about five minutes then
> disappeared. I checked and they are still in
> Library/Mail/Pop-my-email-address/Sent messages.mbox but just wont show in
> Mail. I repaired the permissions, but this did nothing, and rebuilt the
> Mailbox in Mail but no success.
>

Well I spoke too soon again. The Sent messages have now disappeared from the
folder Library?Mail?pop3-my-email-address/sent messages.mbox. What's going
on here? Can anyone advise me?

.

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