[X4U] Mail on another Mac

[Philip J Robar]

On Oct 16, 2006, at 1:57 PM, nk wrote:

> I'd like to use another Mac to handle mail and web stuff while I use  
> my "main" computers for other things.
>
> I copied over my Mail folder from Library, and com.apple.mail.plist  
> over into prefs, but when I launch Mail.app on the new computer,  
> rather than showing me my mail and mailboxes, etc, it presents me  
> with a box to fill out what's your mail, is it a POP  
> account,etc...the same box you get the first time you ever launch  
> mail and have no mailboxes established!
>
> Is there some other component I'm missing? The  two computers do  
> have different versions of the OS...the originating computer is  
> running Tiger, and the mac I want to begin using for mail is on  
> Panther.

The mail store format of each version is different and I'm willing to  
bet that the configuration files are also different. Moving from Tiger  
to Panther is probably doable, but it needs a certain level of  
expertise or an IMAP server that can server as an intermediator.


Phil