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10.3: How to import old Mail inbox to new Mail inbox
Authored by: cudaboy_71 on Nov 07, '03 03:26:58PM

this wouldnt have helped your problem. but, if before formatting and installing, you had simply dragged your mailboxes from mail.app's drawer to the desktop, you'd have had nice little .mbox files.

burn those to cd, put on another volume, whatever. then after installing panther, simply drag those .mbox files back to your account and you should be back where you wanna be.

took me all of 30 seconds to reimport all of my mail and i didnt have to go digging thru obscure directories.

just a tip.

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10.3: How to import old Mail inbox to new Mail inbox
Authored by: rh3toric on Nov 07, '03 04:43:53PM

Make sure to move your com.apple.mail.plist over to your new user library as well. This makes the move complete and allows you to move your account settings, filters, etc..



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