Comments on: Restore IMAP mail from local cache via Time Machine

By: Teemu

Teemu — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 21:06:20 +0000

Thanks! Plain restoring of the mbox for the accidentally emptied IMAP folder was not enough, but restoring to desktop and then importing + moving the mails to the actual folder in the Mail application did the trick. PHEW! :-)

By: Brad Kelley

Brad Kelley — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 21:59:30 +0000

Rename from .imapmbox to .mbox. Well I’ll be. Worked! Much happier now. =)

By: Rob Verboven

Rob Verboven — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 11:10:55 +0000

Works like a charm! Thx

By: Max

Max — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 03:42:38 +0000

Did not work for me. Had a blank Sent folder in mail, so I chose to Synchronize. That made all my gmail sent mail disappear online. This method did not restore my files. Was told the newly renamed .mbox file/folder was not valid.

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:25:16 +0000

Thanks, this just saved my butt. I just finished wiping my mailbox, oops! Glad you figured out how to restore from Time Machine, I was just Googling for how do it, found your post.

By: Luke Hartman

Luke Hartman — Tue, 26 May 2009 17:56:23 +0000

Thanks for this. I ran into the same problem and was wondering why the .imapmbox files wouldn’t import. Your instructions worked like a charm.