Instead of deleting it, have you considered rebuilding the Inbox? That's easy to do from the Mailbox menu. I think there are other ways to make it rebuild it's indices as well, I don't really recall them offhand.
- Ian On Jul 12, 2013, at 5:14 PM, Carl Hoefs <newsli...@autonomy.caltech.edu> wrote: > One of my primary IMAP email accounts is really messed up, so I thought I > would delete it from Mail.app and re-add it. However when I go to delete it, > I get this ominous warning: > > The account’s setup information, > mailboxes, and all messages will > be deleted permanently from your > computer. Cancel | Remove > > Why does it have to delete everything? Is there a way to preserve the years > of emails I have? I just want to recreate the account and leave all the > contents there. OSX allows you to do this when you delete a user account, so > why not also when deleting an email account? > > > _______________________________________________ > MacOSX-talk mailing list > MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com > http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list MacOSX-talk@omnigroup.com http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
