Yeah, I've tried that. The weirdness is that when I read an (IMAP) email from this machine, it immediately deletes the email from the server so I can't see it from any other machine I use. That's not supposed to be how IMAP works! I've looked at all the settings, and there's nothing I can find that would account for this aggressive behavior. So last resort would be to blow the account away and re-add it, unless there's a smarter way.
On Jul 12, 2013, at 3:17 PM, Ian Ragsdale <osxt...@ianragsdale.com> wrote: > 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
