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Recover deleted mail in Entourage or Mail
Authored by: subscriber3 on Aug 24, '04 01:20:26PM

if you are using Mail, there is a folder for each account in ~/Library/Mail .
among other things, these folder contains a file named MessageUidsAlreadyDownloaded .

this is an XML file which can be opened in Property List Editor, an XML editor, or even an HTML editor or TextEdit.

by deleting an entry, you can make Mail download the message again.

the entries are in chronological order, and the date each message was downloaded is included.

delete as many as you want to be sure to get the message you need.

I use this to test mail filters, you can keep bringing the same messages through as you adjust the filters.

I have been told that tracking the downloaded messages is standard in the POP implemenation, so Entourage or any other mail program should have something similar.



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