Mail gone after clean install of El Capitan
Solution 1:
I decided to restore my mails by hand. That took me a few hours, but now I am back to normal.
Here is what I did:
- Import every local mailbox from the backup
- Clean up the mail boxes (Cryptic folders were generated inside every mailbox)
- Add the POP accounts.
- Write mails from there to get a dedicated "send" folder for each account.
- Put the imported mails in the appropriate location (inbox, drafts, sent)
- Add the IMAP accounts.
What I realized after going through all those steps, is that the accounts inside of ~/Library/Mail/V3
are not named by there account names anymore. Instead the consist of a cryptic combination of numbers and characters. Maybe that was the cause why Mail did not import anything.
My guess is, that accounts are now referenced by a number/character-code out of security reasons. However, that leaves me wondering how to do a proper backup of mail for a clean install.