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Reduce mailbox sizes in Mail
Authored by: mactigger on Sep 03, '03 10:07:10AM

Something very odd happened when I tried this hint. I quit Mail, ran the command in terminal, reopened Mail and all was fine. The indexes were rebuilt as I looked in each mailbox. So I thought all was good and shut down for the night.

The next day when I opened Mail, ALL of my mailboxes were gone, and there was no mail in the inbox, but it retained all of my account settings. It's almost as if my /Library/Mail folder was deleted and then recreated when I opened mail. I had a backup from about 5 days ago, but I still lost a considerable amount of mail that had been filed since then.

Any ideas?



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