[mac4theblind] Re: Transfering e-mails to a new Mac.

  • From: Sarah Alawami <marrie12@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: mac4theblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 09:43:58 -0700

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.************
> 
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