We had a mail server go down (utterly) and it turns out that updating cyrus is a bear so recovering the server backup is a huge chore. I made the stupid mistake of disabling that account on Mail to stop the endless spinning of it looking for that account. Now when I re-enable it, the old Inbox shows up from cache but the IMAP directories don't. I tested this on another account and I get the same behaviour, it won't show the imap folder (the cached ones on my local mac) until it gets a successful login again to the server. Trouble is there will never be another successful login; the server is dead. The old account is still there with all of its folder in ~/Library/Mail and I've been using spotlight to find messages I need. But I REALLY need to get it to show (you know with the big @ sign) in the lefthand menu on Mail so I can copy the tree to the new IMAP server. I've been pawing around with emacs and with the Property List Editor with the com.apple.mail.plist file (which seems the likely holder of the flag that will get that folder structure to show again) but I can't find the right place to kick it in the head again.
Anyone have any better knowledge of the preferences and how Mail stores this info so I can get more than my old inbox back? Thanks.
Anyone have any better knowledge of the preferences and how Mail stores this info so I can get more than my old inbox back? Thanks.