Re: Mail.app problem with Mailbox-path

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From: Izumi Ohzawa
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 01:25

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In article <1992Dec24.220856.3332@nidat.sub.org> nextone!root (Operator) writes:
>One of my accounts managed to make its Mail.app inaccessible by setting a  
>wrong path to the Mailboxes directory. Everytime Mail.app starts it  
>displays an alert window about the problem but leaves no choice other than  
>quit. No menues, thus no way to change preferences!

Try from shell prompt:
dremove Mail MailDir

For other settings of Mail.app, do:
dread -o Mail

which will give you a list of Mail.app settings (that have been modified).
Then you can remove a bad setting similarly.


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