Re: Odd Mail.app issue

From	Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: Odd Mail.app issue
Date	2018-06-02 01:19 +0000
Organization	Miskatonic U
Message-ID	<slrnph3s5i.i45.g.kreme@jaka.lan> (permalink)
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In message <ZmKPC.228664$yc1.19652@fx40.iad> JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> wrote:
> On 2018-05-30 19:15, Lewis wrote:
>> Friend of mine showed me his 2015 MBP running High Sierra because the
>> mail.app preferences showed up as a small window labeled "accounts"
>> with no content. 



> Had that happen to me yesterday after a reboot.


> in High Sierra, your mail accounts are stored in... wait for it...

> ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.systempreferences.plist

> So all the stuff Google tells you about com.apple.mail.plist is wrong.

Not wrong, Outdated. "Internet Accounts" was added to System Preferences
quite a while ago.

> You likely also saw your backgrounds revert to the High Sierra orange
> scenery one as well as many others things.

> If you look in ~/Library/Preferences/com. apple.systempreferemces.* you
> are likely to see the .p;ist create when you rebooted, and then anothetr
> one with random nunbers for file extension that is likely your original.

> I restored mine from backup. You must then log out and log back in for
> it to kick in.

I don't think this is the issue, all his accounts still work.

-- 
The point about being killed by magic was that it was much more
inventive than, say, steel; there were all sorts of interesting new ways
to die, and he couldn't put out of his mind the shapes he'd seen, just
for an instant, before the wash of octarine fire had mercifully engulfed
them. --Sourcery

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Odd Mail.app issue Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2018-05-30 23:15 +0000
  Re: Odd Mail.app issue Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2018-05-30 23:59 +0000
  Re: Odd Mail.app issue JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2018-05-30 23:55 -0400
    Re: Odd Mail.app issue Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2018-06-02 01:19 +0000

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