I had an iMac G4 (OS X 10.3.x) suffer a motherboard failure. I replaced it with a Mac Mini (OS X 10.4.8), pulled the hard drive from the G4 and slaved it to the Mac Mini (using a USB-IDE converter kit). I copied the entire contents from the G4 to the Mac Mini.
Now, I am trying to reestablish my Mac Mail mailboxes from the G4 to the new account generated on the Mac Mini.
I started in Mac Mail, went to
File | Import Mailboxes | Mail for Mac OS X.
I pointed to this folder:
//OldHD/Users/[username]/Library/Mail
Mac Mail detected the sent items folder of an old AOL account that I had, but not the SBCGlobal account, or any of the saved mail folders I had created. At this point I was able to read any of the messages in the AOL folders that I had.
Looking in the Library/Mail folder, I noticed a folder called "POP-m600..." and one called "AOL-m600..." were there, but only "AOL-m600..." was in the Library/Mail/Mailboxes folder. I copied the "POP-m600..." folder into the Mail/Mailboxes folder to make it similar to the AOL folder.
Rerunning the Mac Mail import wizard, it now found the inbox and saved mail folders for the SBCGlobal account. Mac Mail imported the headers of all the messages from the SBCGlobal account, but not the bodies of the messages. The body of every message gives the response:
"The message from ... has not been downloaded from the server. You need to take this account online in order to download it."
This error message seems to me to be a fall back error message that MacMail uses when it isn't able to find the mail. In this particular instance, I do not believe it has anything to do with a server. Also, I still have not been able to find the Saved Mail folders that I had established on my previous Mac.
The mail seems to be intact on the hard drive. When I go to the Mail/Mailboxes/POP-m600... folder, there is a file there called mbox that is 13.4MB. This message is almost certainly the file that I cannot get Mac Mail to interpret properly. (For comparision, the mbox file in the AOL folder is 676KB. There is also a content_index file in each folder that is 1000KB for SBC adn 388KB for AOL. There are also two other files called Info.plist and table_of_contents.)
I'm thinking it's possible there's a quick one or two line answer to this difficulty and that I've way over analyzed this, but the answer wasn't readily apparent either in Mac Mail's import feature or on Google.
Thanks in advance for your help.
Now, I am trying to reestablish my Mac Mail mailboxes from the G4 to the new account generated on the Mac Mini.
I started in Mac Mail, went to
File | Import Mailboxes | Mail for Mac OS X.
I pointed to this folder:
//OldHD/Users/[username]/Library/Mail
Mac Mail detected the sent items folder of an old AOL account that I had, but not the SBCGlobal account, or any of the saved mail folders I had created. At this point I was able to read any of the messages in the AOL folders that I had.
Looking in the Library/Mail folder, I noticed a folder called "POP-m600..." and one called "AOL-m600..." were there, but only "AOL-m600..." was in the Library/Mail/Mailboxes folder. I copied the "POP-m600..." folder into the Mail/Mailboxes folder to make it similar to the AOL folder.
Rerunning the Mac Mail import wizard, it now found the inbox and saved mail folders for the SBCGlobal account. Mac Mail imported the headers of all the messages from the SBCGlobal account, but not the bodies of the messages. The body of every message gives the response:
"The message from ... has not been downloaded from the server. You need to take this account online in order to download it."
This error message seems to me to be a fall back error message that MacMail uses when it isn't able to find the mail. In this particular instance, I do not believe it has anything to do with a server. Also, I still have not been able to find the Saved Mail folders that I had established on my previous Mac.
The mail seems to be intact on the hard drive. When I go to the Mail/Mailboxes/POP-m600... folder, there is a file there called mbox that is 13.4MB. This message is almost certainly the file that I cannot get Mac Mail to interpret properly. (For comparision, the mbox file in the AOL folder is 676KB. There is also a content_index file in each folder that is 1000KB for SBC adn 388KB for AOL. There are also two other files called Info.plist and table_of_contents.)
I'm thinking it's possible there's a quick one or two line answer to this difficulty and that I've way over analyzed this, but the answer wasn't readily apparent either in Mac Mail's import feature or on Google.
Thanks in advance for your help.
