8525 "Fantom" mailbox in Messaging

[mitchg]

Hi guys - I think I got a little carried-away cleaning up my storage card, and must have deleted one of my inbox's for comcast.net. Now when I try to readd my pop3 comcast account (which is NOT listed in the "messaging, accounts" folder list, my 8525 pops up a box saying "That name is already assigned to another account. Enger a unique name and try again." There is no account listed at all for "Comcast." The only account I have is for Xpress Mail.

I search the registry for everything I think could work. No luck. Comcast even shows up on my Today screen, when I have Messaging as a Today item. I can't open the Comcast messages, when I click on the "Comcast" reference, though... Nothing happens.

Can anyone assist? Please no hard-reset!

Thanks,

Mitch

[sparkyxda]

I had the same problem. The phantom mailbox is in a mail database somewhere, not the registry, and I used some utility or other to delete it. Sorry to be so vaugue but I did find enough clues to work it out by searching these forums.

[mitchg]

OK - well thanks for the reply - that at least gives me a place to start looking.

thanks again.

[marisa4755]

There is another solution if you use a backup program with selective restore, just hard reset, restore backup except for mail settings, then redo mail manually.

Or, if you synced with activesync after deleting whatever it is, it may still be in the recycle bin on your pc. Don't know if this would be any good, but maybe worth looking.

Good luck

[sparkyxda]

Here you are:

http://www.pocketpcmag.com/blogs/index.php?blog=3&title=how_does_the_windowsce_system_databases&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1

This was the article that gave me the clues. You have to be careful of course. I dug around in these folders/db's and deleted references to the phantom mailbox.

Good luck