[X4U] Moving Mail To A New Had Drive On New Computer

[Heinz-Hermann Adam]

Hi,

I think copying ~/Library/Mail and the ~/Library/Preferences/ 
com.apple.mail.plist to the Quad prior to launching Mail should do  
the job.

If you have launched Mail already, make shure it is closed and  
replace ~/Library/Mail and ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist  
with the ones from your old Mac.
Especially make shure not to keep any folders or else from the first  
lauch of Mail under ~/Library/Mail, otherwise you will see merged  
information of the old and new configuration.

I use this to synk the mail between my Macs at work, at home and on  
the road. As long as the accounts don't change you have only to  
synchronize the ~/Library/Mail between different Macs.

HTH

Heinz-Hermann


Am 15.02.2006 um 13:00 schrieb Daly Jessup:

> At 9:01 PM -0800 2/14/06, Kunga wrote:
>> I have a lot of books. And I know this has been asked a million
>> times. But can someone here tell me how to move my complicated mail
>> to a new copy of hte system ona new computer so it will act like it
>> was on the old computer? Same OS 10.4.5. G5 dual 2.5 to Quad. thanks
>> in advance.
>>
>> I know where all the files are in my Library. I copied all that over.
>> But it still acted like this was the first time I ever launched Mail.
>>
>> But what else do I have to copy over to avoid the first time ever
>> launched nonesense?
>
> I don't know where the files are that would stop that. But in your  
> place I think I would try starting Mail before moving over your old  
> mail. In other words, set it up with one of your accounts (one  
> where you have recently gotten mail so the server is likely to be  
> free of new mail) and then send yourself a test message, retrieve  
> that message and generally work it over a little. THEN move over  
> your old files and replace the ones on the new computer with the  
> old ones. Maybe that will create whatever signal it needs to know  
> that it isn't your first time running Mail?
>
> Daly
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