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Import old NeXTSTEP/Openstep mailboxes to Mail Apps
I fired up my old NeXT hardware this past week, and noticed that it had a NeXT Mail.app email archive and newsgroup posting archive from my early days on the 'net. How I would love to have that info extracted and placed into my current archives on my IMAP server. However, I ran into two problems:
  1. PopOver would not connect to to my IMAP server, due to security changes that disallow older, less secure connections.
  2. The files were all in NeXT's mbox format.
So I FTP'd the files over to my OS X machine, and tried Mail's 'import other' function, which allows mbox importing. Unfortunately, mbox import failed, much to my chagrin. On a lark, I tried "Mail for Mac OS X," and lo and behold, it started sucking in all my old mail in the Imported folder. It even made subdirectories to keep all my mail separated based on the old mailboxes I had.

I thought I would just pass this hint on even if there is little use for this hint other than as a trivia item.
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Import old NeXTSTEP/Openstep mailboxes to Mail
Authored by: bonobo on May 17, '06 11:30:52AM

> I thought I would just pass this hint on even if there is little use for this hint other than as a trivia item.

Oh no, thank you very much for this hint, it gives me reason to fire up my ole NeXTcube and see whether I can also import my olden mail archive from way back when ... when I first encountered the 'net. Next trick to learn should be how to get them into Eudora., but I guess there'll be tips for that also somewhere out there, once I search the net.

Thanks for the tip, and thanks for reminding me of that old black box that's gathering dust.

Cheers, Tom



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Import old NeXTSTEP/Openstep mailboxes to Mail
Authored by: thereitis on May 18, '06 04:04:19AM

Sure it works!
OSX IS NeXTSTEP!

I've been doing this a few years ago...



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Import old NeXTSTEP/Openstep mailboxes to Mail
Authored by: reagan9000 on Mar 29, '09 11:29:23PM

Thanks for this - I just found old backups of my Nextstep home directory and recovered mailboxes from 1990-95.
Tim



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