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Simple Situation; no Simple Solution?
Authored by: GammaRay Rob on Feb 24, '06 09:28:16AM

The quoted error message from Mail arises most often in the one situation I want to accomplish simply: I back up my Work computer's Mail account on my iPod, copy the backup to my laptop, and, presto, no luck: "...the mail is on the server...". While I have my suspicions why Mail might be constructed this way, it would be really nice if I could keep a complete and functional backup of my Mail archive on my laptop. Is there no simple solution for this?
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Simple Situation; no Simple Solution?
Authored by: dotgray on Feb 24, '06 04:33:20PM

For the Mail that you've trying to archive, are you copying from a system running Mac OS 10.3.x or 10.4.x? Apple changed the way mail is stored in Tiger (to support Spotlight indexing without having to write an extra plug-in), so the cause of this error message is slightly different.



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Try mailsteward
Authored by: jim_perry on Feb 25, '06 09:15:20AM

Mailsteward basically backs up your mail into an sqlite database. It's not particularly elegent, but does work and is fast for archiving years worth of mail.

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