A total backup plan for Mail (and more)
Tyler Hall at Sitening provides a detailed account 
of his backup strategy.
He divides his data up into six categories depending on how frequently he backs it up and how he does it.
Email backups, he writes, are all taken care of by Mail.app. He downloads all this Gmail into Mail using Gmail’s POP access and all his IMAP emails are mirrored in Mail.app’s local cache.
Preference files, the ~/Library/Mail and ~/Library/Mail Downloads folders, which are essential parts of a sensible Mail.app backup plan, are taken care by another backup process.
SuperDuper (“Heroic system recovery for mere mortals”) is the backup app of choice.
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Tags: Apple Mail, Apple Mail Tips, backups, GMAIL, mail.app
January 3rd, 2007 at 10:10 am
I was not receiving inmail so Sympatico (my server) told me to delete
my account and to open a new one. I couldn’t find Delete so they simply added a new one. I began getting duplicate mail and I sought help from Sympatico and Apple and they both blamed the other. Then I noticed that my POP account kept changing in preferences from one to the other. So I realized that the mail was recognizing both POPs and delivered duplicate messages. I discovered how to delete the account (it wasn’t the first account to be deleted) and voila no more duplicate mail only I discovered I had no more mail period. The warning ISN’T sufficient. Apple should fix it so when you delete a POP account and open a new one all is not lost.