Import old NeXTSTEP/Openstep mailboxes to Mail
May 17, '06 07:23:00AM
Contributed by: rworne
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:
- PopOver would not connect to to my IMAP server, due to security changes that disallow older, less secure connections.
- 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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