In case it's not clear from the title of the message, I've got a bit of
an urgent situation.

I'm using Mail.app to access a couple POP accounts. (Prefs are set so
messages are removed from the server immediately.) Due to attbi
changing our e-mail addresses *again* I decided to set up my own domain
that would auto-forward to whatever e-mail address the cable modem
people happened to be using as their flavor of the week.

Instead of editing my existing account, I created a new account with
similar settings, but a different name (so as to not goof up anything
with the existing one). The new one was working but appeared to be
causing some conflicts with the old one. So... I deleted the old
account.

History is filled with tales of woe about people who hit "OK" before
thoroughly reading warning messages.

I can't believe that it's possible to mistakenly hit OK and have all my
messages from my existing account completely deleted FOREVER. Please
tell me this is not the case. THis is going to cause almost
unimaginable grief for months to come.

I have not done anything since hitting the OK button other than post
this message. I will be waiting patiently until someone can either
confirm or deny what I was told by an Apple support tech: I'm screwed.

Thanks for any help/advice you can offer.

--
David Stirling
Black Dog Graphics

Well, it looks like my situation isn't as grim as I first thought. The
only messages lost were the ones in the Inbox, that hadn't been moved
to a folder in the "On My Mac" box. So I only lost about 2 kabillion
messages instead of 18 kabillion.

But the ones that were lost really are gone. Totally gone. My limited
understanding of OSX leads me to believe that the ".mbox" package,
(which is a set of text files that can be opened and viewed in BBEdit)
is immediately updated and saved. So there are no files in the trash to
restore, no previous state to return to, no nothing, unless you've
saved a copy of your ~/Library/Mail folder

So, the moral of the story: sort your e-mail immediately, and back-up
frequently.

In article <230620031752555936%BlackDogGraphicsSpamFilter[at]attbi.com>,
David Stirling <BlackDogGraphicsSpamFilter[at]attbi.com> wrote:

> In case it's not clear from the title of the message, I've got a bit of
> an urgent situation.
>
> I'm using Mail.app to access a couple POP accounts. (Prefs are set so
> messages are removed from the server immediately.) Due to attbi
> changing our e-mail addresses *again* I decided to set up my own domain
> that would auto-forward to whatever e-mail address the cable modem
> people happened to be using as their flavor of the week.
>
> Instead of editing my existing account, I created a new account with
> similar settings, but a different name (so as to not goof up anything
> with the existing one). The new one was working but appeared to be
> causing some conflicts with the old one. So... I deleted the old
> account.
>
> History is filled with tales of woe about people who hit "OK" before
> thoroughly reading warning messages.
>
> I can't believe that it's possible to mistakenly hit OK and have all my
> messages from my existing account completely deleted FOREVER. Please
> tell me this is not the case. THis is going to cause almost
> unimaginable grief for months to come.
>
> I have not done anything since hitting the OK button other than post
> this message. I will be waiting patiently until someone can either
> confirm or deny what I was told by an Apple support tech: I'm screwed.
>
> Thanks for any help/advice you can offer.

--
David Stirling
Black Dog Graphics