[MlMt] Ugh - switched hosts and my mail is a mess

[Steven M. Bellovin]

At a guess -- I haven't tried this -- you can use File | Import Messages 
-- it looks like it will take a directory tree of .eml files.

OTOH, since I'm the one who said "just click 'OK' to rebuild", maybe you 
shouldn't take my advice....

On 6 Mar 2018, at 8:28, Annamarie wrote:

> I thought I sent another email about this - but I don't see it showing 
> up.
>
> So that error message and the resynchronize - deletes mail. I now have 
> three accounts gone. One I don't care about - it's an old account i 
> used for signing up for newsletters etc., but two I do. How to 
> restore? I have TimeMachine back-ups, the original cpanel full backup 
> in a tar.gz format, and emails on my iPhone. (I haven't switched 
> iPhone settings yet.) Just tried to export from my old account using 
> webmail/horde but that isn't working. My new host no longer has them 
> at all.
>
> Thanks
> Annamarie
>
>
> P.S. I HATE changing hosting services. It's always hours of work.
>
>
>
> Annamarie Pluhar
> 802-451-1941
> 802-579-5975 (iPhone - not good when I'm at my desk.)
>
> On 5 Mar 2018, at 11:23, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:
>
>> On 5 Mar 2018, at 15:27, Annamarie wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks for the response. Messages transferred server to server. So - 
>>> the message is that it wasn't happy with what is on my computer 
>>> because it didn't match the new server? Got it - that makes sense.
>>
>> If it's any consolation then it's very important that MailMate 
>> complains about this instead of just ignoring the problem. Worst-case 
>> scenario would be that some (or many) emails have the wrong mapping 
>> between client and server. For example, you might think you delete 
>> one message but a completely different one is then deleted on the 
>> server.
>>
>> -- 
>> Benny
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