If you're using Apple's Mail, try using the "Import Mailboxes" function under "File" Your old mail should be stored with an .mbox suffix. On Nov 12, 2013, at 3:58 PM, Stacy Kontrabecki wrote: > I forgot to renew a little-used domain. Luckily, I was able to secure it > again and had to set up the single email address used on the account > from scratch. When I updated the password to this email account on the > iPad, all of the old messages disappeared since I had initially set up > as IMAP, I believe. I hadn't thought of this beforehand. I mean I did > consider it, but I thought the old messages would remain - I don't know > why.