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How do I restore Mail after clean install?
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<blockquote data-quote="chscag" data-source="post: 1787084" data-attributes="member: 46727"><p>Without a good Time Machine backup to use, your only hope is if you can restore mail from your ISP's server. Most ISPs delete mail after 30 days for an IMAP account. However, if your account was POP3 and you did not remove the mail from the server, it may still exist and may be possible to download again.</p><p></p><p>Trying to restore mail is difficult enough even when Time Machine is working, but trying to do it without a good Time Machine backup is almost impossible. As you found out, Mail is stored in data base format and makes no sense at all if you have no way to restore it. You can not restore mail manually.</p><p></p><p>In the future, do not rely only on one backup method. Most of us use Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper in addition to Time Machine for backups.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chscag, post: 1787084, member: 46727"] Without a good Time Machine backup to use, your only hope is if you can restore mail from your ISP's server. Most ISPs delete mail after 30 days for an IMAP account. However, if your account was POP3 and you did not remove the mail from the server, it may still exist and may be possible to download again. Trying to restore mail is difficult enough even when Time Machine is working, but trying to do it without a good Time Machine backup is almost impossible. As you found out, Mail is stored in data base format and makes no sense at all if you have no way to restore it. You can not restore mail manually. In the future, do not rely only on one backup method. Most of us use Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper in addition to Time Machine for backups. [/QUOTE]
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