Recover messages from a deleted mail account in Mail for macOS<article>
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<p>Sometimes you make a rookie mistake, like shutting down a hosted email account before you—well, before
I—download all the messages that are stored on the server and synced to my Macs and iOS devices via IMAP. I felt like a dope. I had already contacted the mail hosting company, which retains deleted accounts for seven days for just this reason, when I realized I should have a full backup cached on my iMac.</p><p>This Mac is always on and the Mail app is always running. The account I’d just deleted should be fully synced with the cached download in Mail, so long as I didn’t restart my Mac or even quit Mail. If you quit or restart, it’s hard to know exactly what cached content would be temporarily deleted by Mail or macOS.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3400869/recover-messages-from-a-deleted-mail-account-in-mail-for-macos.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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Recover messages from a deleted mail account in Mail for macOS
