HOWTO - Properly Re-Import Old Mail to Mail 2 (for clean-installs & archive-installs)

[Zammy-Sam]

I was playing a bit with the files and test-deleted some. It seems the mbox files from mail 1 are the leftovers. Deleting these files from the *.mbox folders does not affect the email content in mail 2.. by now although I restarted few times.

[Zammy-Sam]

Got it!
Conclusion:
if you want to avoid double mails in your mail folder (not in mail.app) after you imported your mails from mail 1 to mail 2 then simply delete any 'mbox' file in your home/Library/Mail subfolders.

[snipper]

I had problems importing my old mail, so I tried this tip. Dragged my Mail folder to the desktop, copied my old Mail folder in my Library instead, replaced the com.apple.mail.plist file in the same fashion.

Started up Mail 2 -> it suggests to import old mail. When I choose not to, all I got is an empty 'starter set' of mailboxes.

What am I doing wrong?

[snipper]

OK... finally, it worked at the 4th attempt, by copying straight from the cdrom instead of from the folder I had used before to import the old mail..

[balaazs]

hey all,

i've just installed (upgraded to) Tiger, and everything's doing well except for Mail... I tried to run Mail2... it suggests to import old messages... i said OK... and it keeps stopping at number 5198 or so... i made a previous backup, so i replaced the mail folder and the mail.plist file, but the same problem appears on and on...
could anybody please be of some help?

[riccbhard]

Correct me if i'm wrong; but shouldnt this be in the HOW-TO section of the forums?

[karavite]

Hey, this does not deserve a new thread, but it relates to Mail for Tiger and is driving me nuts. Mail in Tiger seems to have an auto correct feature and I can't turn it off. Whenever I type "FYI" it spells out "for your information." I don't want it to do this and I I use "fyi" a lot! I can find nothing in preferences or help.

Duh, never mind. It was Grammarian not Mail! Amazing the old thing still works in Tiger!

[fryke]

riccbhard: It's a leftover from the days when we had a special Tiger forum. We had threads 'bout the same things pop up all over the place, so we stuck the ones that included frequently asked questions. Moving this to the howtos now.