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How do you make this work for the newer version of Mail.app
Authored by: Amaltheia on Feb 04, '03 07:10:04PM

Apparently you're not allowed to point to an existing folder as inbox for a new account anymore. What I did was:
-Make an account like described in the original hint, but don't try to assign the inbox to an existing folder, just let mail.app make a new inbox (it wil place it under the general inbox named 'In').
-In preferences edit your rule to point to the newly created inbox instead of the old folder.

Different aproach, same result :)



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DON'T DO THE ABOVE!
Authored by: jiclark on Feb 05, '03 02:02:44AM

I just tried this, and totally screwed my email!!! It's probably because I thought I could move the older emails into these "new" Inboxes, but now I'm totally screwed. The mail is all mixed up, the Rules don't work (they don't even stick to what you set them to filter to), and a lot of my mail is unreadable (ie: gone!) because it says something like "the message 'blah blah' has not been downloaded from the server; you must put this account online to download this message". Well, that message has been off of the server for months, if not years, so I'm afraid I'm out of luck. Fortunately, I have a backup of my Library folder from this weekend, but before I went about trying to recover from this disaster, I thought I'd try and warn anyone else from trying the same thing!!!

It's a nice idea, but it just doesn't work!

Good luck,
John-o



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