If by chance you aren’t using a modern email service (Verizon customers with email addresses, I’m looking at’cha), then you might have to also import messages from your previous “message store” as the Mail app creates a new one. Get a cuppa coffee and come back later and everything will be back to the way it was.Īnother option is if you have Time Machine connected to a Time Capsule, then you can run Time Machine and revert your computer to just before you deleted that mail account. If you have a lot of old emails in your account, it may take awhile for everything to sync back up again, so be patient. Choose your account type from the list, and fill in your email address and password. To restore your Mail app to its previous glory, just open the Mail app and click the menu Mail and Add Account. As for less-modern email services, tell me in the comments below what you’re using and perhaps I can give you more specific advice. And given all the breaches Yahoo has suffered recently, if you’re still using Yahoo I respectfully suggest you switch – now. POP is horrible at multi-computer use, as many of us enjoy a personal computer and a smartphone – the latter is simply a smaller computer.ĪOL mail uses a proprietary blend of IMAP, so your results may vary. Short for Post Office Protocol, POP mail stores mail on a cloud-based server until your device/computer asks for it, then downloads it to your computer, wiping it off the server. For example, Gmail uses IMAP by default, but you can turn on support for the older mail protocol, POP. With other email services it’s sometimes fuzzy.
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