Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Jolly Roger Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: More mailbox problems with Mail Date: 16 Mar 2017 23:36:51 GMT Organization: People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates Lines: 32 Message-ID: References: <0001HW.D4F05FFD01932E77B02919BF@news.astraweb.com> <0001HW.D4F08D79019DD75CB02919BF@news.astraweb.com> X-Trace: individual.net LdBnhe9/1iv4JihX2qzLigNXsp5+2oVwlJyHlsgcl/yYvsyDVP Cancel-Lock: sha1:K/etQK/glk+Bk/UU0E+BmXe+two= Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Darwin) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:102447 On 2017-03-16, Patty Winter wrote: > > In article <0001HW.D4F08D79019DD75CB02919BF@news.astraweb.com>, > Nelson wrote: >> >>There is a lot more that could be wrong than the plist files. And even >>if it is a plist file how would you know how to fix it? In my >>experience sometimes it's easier to just start from scratch. Delete >>everything, rebuild the accounts from scratch and then re-import the >>mboxes one by one. Tedious, I know. But you will probably spend more >>time trying to figure out what is wrong and trying to fix it. And by >>doing it that way, one by one, if something goes haywire, you'll catch >>it immediately. > > What do you mean by "delete everything"? I don't think I can delete > Mail, and anyway, since it's working for a different user, the basic > Mail setup can't be the problem. He probably meant to delete all of the accounts, and add them again. > I tried deleting my IMAP account, but my only choices were to disable > it or to remove it from all of my computers. I certainly don't want > to do the latter. But that shouldn't be a problem since you will be adding it again afterwards and the actual messages are stored on the IMAP server, right? -- E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter. I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead. JR