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Re: Where does Mail store deleted messages?

On Jan 26, 2007, at 6:18 PM, Christopher Nebel wrote:

On Jan 25, 2007, at 1:59 PM, Luther Fuller wrote:

The answer is: In the user's /Library/Mail/Deleted Messages.mbox/ Messages folder.
The string "Deleted Messages" is stored in the preference file "com.apple.mail.plist" in the key MailAccounts/0/TrashMailBoxName.

Maybe. First, that's actually a preference (see Preferences > Accounts > Mailbox Behaviors > Move deleted messages to the Trash mailbox); second, messages for an IMAP account aren't necessarily stored on disk at all.

I ment to say... in the User's /Library/Mail/xxx/Deleted Messages.mbox/Messages folder, where xxx is Mailboxes or an account folder. In the Preferences the phrases "Move deleted messages to a separate folder" and "Move deleted messages to the Trash mailbox" are both used and seem to mean the same thing. (I hope...?)

Which brings up a new question: I'm writing a new handler that's designed to copy Trashed and Sent mail documents to a Finder folder and remove them from Mail ... so I've used Mail's applescript commands to uncheck all of the "Store ... messages on the server" boxes. I've never stored anything on a server, so I may be blind to a problem here that someone who does store on the server might see. (?)

I suspect that the value of this key depends on the language preference set in the International preference pane when the user first used Mail.

I'd be surprised if that were the case -- it would mean that your trash wouldn't work if you switched languages. Try changing primary languages and see what happens.

That's good to know. I am going to hard code the strings "Drafts", "Junk", "Sent Messages" and "Deleted Messages" and avoid reading com.apple.mail.plist. Thanks.
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