I have used that feature but I don't care for it as you need to create all th email boxes from imported to on my mac or what ever. I suggest setting your account to IMap and doing ti that way as that will be much easier in my opinion. Take care. On Jun 29, 2012, at 5:17 AM, David Hilbert Poehlman wrote: > Hi, > > under the mailbox menu, in mail, there is an export mailbox option. Under > the file menu of mail, there is an import mailboxes item. export your > mailboxes, copy them to the new mac, import them from the location which you > copied them to on the new mac. you will want to verify this in snow leopard > before trying it but those two items are present in lion. > > You can also locate the mail folder with all the info related to mail on your > mac, copy it to the new mac and import using the file menu item from there. > > I've done a lot of mail transfer and while imap is the best way to go if you > can manage or want to use it, some isps do not support it so you still end up > having to copy your mail to the new computer. > > H T H > > On Jun 29, 2012, at 6:48 AM, Linnette Whalen wrote: > > Hello Group, > > I have a 2010 MacBook Air and I am giving it to my 19 year old nephew for > hard labor. I have ordered a new MacBook Air 11 inch and only want my e-mails > from the older Air. How is the most efficient way to accomplish this? The > older machine is running Snow Leopard. Thanks again for any help.************ > > > You are subscribed to the mac4theblind mailing list. > > > The url for this list, where one can unsubscribe or make any changes to > their list subscription is: > > //www.freelists.org/list/mac4theblind > > The list archive is located at > > //www.freelists.org/archive/mac4theblind/ > > All emails intended for the list owner can be sent to: > > john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > -- > Jonnie Appleseed > With His > Hands-On Technolog(eye)s > touching the internet > Reducing Technology's disabilities > One Byte At a time > > >