Hi all, Because I did a clean install of El Capitan, I needed to set Mail up from scratch. This worked pretty well [1] for my email accounts, because they are all IMAP accounts. I cannot figure out, however, how to get the 'On My Mac' mail back.
I went to my backup of Mavericks, and found ~/Library/Mail/V2/Mailboxes, which contains all the mailboxes which were listed as 'On My Mac'. When I tried to import the mailboxes as Apple Mail, Mail threw up its hands in dismay and said that it could only partially import some of the mail.... meaning that there was lots and lots of missing email. On top of this, there were submailboxes with informative names such as '3D18984C-420D-4DC1-804E-C0987E4F302B', with messages buried deep in a series of numbered submailboxes. In other words, Mail could not import its own steaming pile. I tried copying the old ~/Library/Mail/V2/Mailboxes folder to another location so that I could mess with it with impunity. I cleaned out items which were I could see I did not need, and tried importing again. This time I got no error message, but I still got the same jacked-up import with bizarre submailboxes and missing emails. When I look through the ~/Library/Mail/V2/Mailboxes folder hierarchy, I can see that there are emails which are not being imported from their deeply buried subfolders. I spent time googling and found multiple places giving advice to go buy Emailchemy to convert the mail saved by Mail into something Mail can import properly. I did need Emailchemy once before when Mac OS X 10.0.0.4 came out, and Mail could not import the mail from Claris Emailer worth a toot, so I can believe that this could work. [2] Has anyone here found a way to import locally-stored mail properly without resorting to buying a piece of software to do Apple's work? Bill [1] Aside from having to rebuild (aka re-download) multiple folders multiple times. [2] This strikes me a really asinine, as one might think that Mail could import its own mail properly from the version it had used for about 10 years, but then I would be making the assumption that Apple would have any backward compatibility when changing formats. Bad assumption.
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