So this morning Mail.app on my Mac started to do strange things, like say “Can’t delete message server does not allow operation (moving to folder “null”)” or something like that. I don’t really remember. Things looked strange too – for some reason my trash can icon for my main email account had turned into a world icon, and all the folders were duplicated under that. Strange. So, I did what any under-caffeinated, not-thinking person would do at 6:30am, I deleted the folders. <\/p>\n
Then my entire mail server disappeared. After I clicked the “this will delete files on the server and is a non-recoverable operation, and are you really sure you want to do this? Like, seriously? McFly?” button. Maybe that wasn’t exactly what it said, but it was close.<\/p>\n
So it looks like for some reason Mail.app got confused, thought my entire mail hierarchy was supposed to go under the trash can (I vaguely remember this happening once before and I know that I needed to set the trash can up using the “Use this folder as…” function) and aliased things there. It also was syncing and re-downloaded everything to be under the trash can, which was what clued me in. Along with not being able to delete email. <\/p>\n
So I don’t know what happened there. But I did wipe out my entire email account. Which goes back to maybe 1999 or so. That is bad. <\/p>\n