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How I backup mail messages
Authored by: sdk22 on Oct 05, '06 05:36:31PM

This is isn't the most user friendly way to backup mail, but...

If you backup up the following folders/files you will have a complete backup of your mail and the state of the program(ie which windows are open).
/Users/name/Library/Mail
/Users/name/Library/Mail Downloads
/Users/name/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist

I have used this several times as I move to new computers frequently and want to have all my mail from previous computers intact and easily accessible on the new computer. It should be easy to write a quick script to copy this information. I haven't done that yet, as it doesn't take much time to copy 2 folders and a file.



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