Mac Mail Help!!!!

**Bytor** · 5th December 2007, 18:52

OK all you mac addicts, my 3 year daughter has been banging away on my keyboard and somehow deleted all our emails and settings in Mac Mail and our Safari history and settings

. Mail has reset and is now asking to set up a mail account

What the hell can I do? Can anything be retrieved? Thought I'd ask the knowledgeable KBers first before trying to speak to an Xtra Support muppet who knows sweet FA about macs.

**jimbo600** · 5th December 2007, 20:31

go to your ISP webmail page and they should have a cache of your emails. And mac mail is easy to setup all you need to do is put the account and smtp settings in. Again your ISP help desk can walk you through this.

**necrolyte** · 5th December 2007, 20:46

I reckon you could start by getting a computer which has a TWO button mouse... whats the one thing a PC can do that a Mac can't? Right Click.

**RantyDave** · 5th December 2007, 21:10

Originally Posted by necrolyte

I reckon you could start by getting a computer which has a TWO button mouse... whats the one thing a PC can do that a Mac can't? Right Click.

Hold down control and click.
Or buy a mouse with two buttons and, ummm, plug it in.
Or buy one of the newer apple mice that only has one button, but it knows which side you're pressing it on.

Other than that I also think the ISP/Cache route may be the way to go, or take it to an experienced Mac fixer and see what they say. Also, get 10.5 and use time machine to do backups. VERY good piece of kit. Also get 10.5 and set up a separate user account for your kid - you can set up filtering, mail address filtering, max hours/day, bed times all sorts of shit.

Dave

**Big Dave** · 5th December 2007, 22:00

All the new macs have 5 button meeces.

**Disco Dan** · 5th December 2007, 22:05

Go through the setup and enter all your settings - your emails will then be downloaded again from your email client.

Settings are usually like this:

incoming mail server:

pop3.xtra.co.nz

Outgoing server:

smtp.(your isp here).co.nz

for Xtra: outgoing server is: send.xtra.co.nz

**Dave-** · 5th December 2007, 22:17

FAT32, not so phat.

why did you get a mac?

**Bytor** · 5th December 2007, 22:19

Well the Telecom Xtra support monkey has sorted it! Had to reset up an account and hey presto 200 emails downloaded

except all my saved ones that I had in various mailbox folders

Must learn to back up, must learn to back up...

**McJim** · 5th December 2007, 22:27

Originally Posted by Dave-

FAT32, not so phat.

why did you get a mac?

It's a graphic artist kind of thing.

**Disco Dan** · 5th December 2007, 22:27

ahh crap should have cropped it..

watching "Flood" while I surf the net hehe

Glad you got it sorted.

**Dave-** · 6th December 2007, 07:07

Originally Posted by McJim

It's a graphic artist kind of thing.

no it's not....I use a PC for 3d animation and graphic design and have never had a problem...

I studied on a mac and found it harder as it hid file extensions it made stupid DS files and made fake instances of files too.

and don't say they don't crash because they do.