A few weeks ago we switched email servers. To manage the transition I had created a new account in my email client (Apple's Mail.app) with the new server's data.

Yesterday I closed the account on the old server and decided to get rid of the account on my email client. Before removing the account I remembered to move all messages saved in the default inbox to another mailbox since I knew that the default inbox was actually part of the account and that deleting the account would have also deleted the received messages.

But I didn't think to backup messages contained in the default Sent mailbox.

So now I have lost all messages that I have sent in the last.... well, I don't know how much time. It looks like the mailbox is unrecoverable and I don't have a fresh backup.

Also if I think that a good application should have warned me ("You are going to delete 2.387 messages, are you sure?"), strangely I'm not particulary upset about the data loss. Some time ago I would have lived this as a tragedy.

But if you'll ever have to delete an account in Mail.app remember to back-up. I will.