[Bryson]

Hello all,

My one little niggle with Tiger: Mail 2.0 failed to import the e-mail from 1.3. I kept 1.3 in a subfolder of Applications, so perhaps this was the problem.

Anyway, I went to "import mailboxes" but the option is greyed out. Have I lost my mail entirely?

PS: Anyone know when a Mail 2.0 version of the HTTPmail plug-in will be out?

Thanks

Bryson

[ast3r3x]

What kind of install did you do?

[Bryson]

Archive and Install

[ast3r3x]

Aha, choose...

File > Import Mailboxes...

Then select "Mail for Mac OS X." Navigate to your old ~/library/mail and it will have all your old emails...well you might need to select the mailboxes folder, I am not sure.

[Bryson]

But

File>import mailboxes

is greyed out...

[ast3r3x]

Have you setup an account yet? Maybe you have to do this first?

[Bryson]

It has my .mac and my normal e-mail account - and transferred the settings fine. It's just not taken any of the actual mail across.

[ast3r3x]

Hmm...don't use .mac, so maybe that is different.

[Mac+]

I don't have Tiger - but try this:

• go to your old home directory/Library/Mail (it should be archived on your HD)
• locate the old mailboxes you want
• copy (or drag) them across to your new ~/Library/Mail/Mailboxes folder
• relaunch Mail

Hope this helps.

[Gargoyle]

I am not sure that is going to work. I did that and I got a lot of empty folders.

You'll notice im mail you sometime get white folders and sometimes blue ones. The white ones are not mailboxes - they are just folders. The blue ones however, are mailboxes that just happen to have other mailboxes inside them.

Also, the new mail.app stores the mails in a different structure.

I found that I could not import them all in one go. I had to select a sub folder and then import that, and repeat for each of my sub folders.

I think I will actually drag all my messages back to "inbox" and setup some smart folders.

[Mac+]

Oh well, as I said - I don't have Tiger. A different structure would explain the problem then I guess. If you can find out the new structure, it still may be possible to import them manually with this method perhaps, though.

I understand nested folders and all that - I did not explain them to Bryson b/c I wasn't sure whether he had them or not.

As for smart folders they sound great. I have so many sub folders, though, I'm wondering just how many smart folders I'll end up with.

Ahh Tiger - once again I'm caught in the prospect of longing to upgrade my machine and don't feel justified by paying for the OS update if I am to follow through with new hardware. Bring on the rev B iMac Apple.

[Bryson]

Interesting.... The mbox files are in my current system, but Mail isn't reading them. I also noticed some kind of setup process that my Girlfriends PBook ran which mine didn't.

Hmmm. Oh well. I have Applecare, so I'll call them.

[Bryson]

Ok folks, I'm feeling brave, and have installed the new Tiger version of the HTTPmail plugin. So far, apart from the documentation being utterly useless (the English documentation is in non-existent HTML files, good thing I also speak French!) it seems to be ok. There is some terminal to do, and the installer could be more elegant, but it seems to be working - and it even grabbed my old settings from 10.3 and re-applied them, which was nice.

I'll let you know if it screws me up at all.