This is probably obvious, but I didn't see it explicitly mentioned in your email, so just in case....
If your mailboxes are on the server (IMAP, gmail, iCloud, etc.) then you don't need to migrate them. Just set up your account(s) again, and they'll reappear. On May 11, 2014, at 11:24 AM, Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [V] <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > What is the best way to migrate all of my emails and mailboxes (and mailbox > folders and subfolders) after a fresh OS install? My previous installation > of Mountain Lion was acting really flaky (I'm assuming it was a bad hard > drive). So I put a different hard drive in my Mac Pro tower and did a fresh > install of Mountain Lion. I know transferring email is simple if I migrate > my entire user account with Migration Assistant, but I did not want to > transfer corrupted files. > > Before reinstalling ML, I used the Export Mailbox option under the Mailbox > menu in Apple Mail, which I assumed would create an archive of all my > mailboxes and the emails within. Either this was a false assumption or else > I could not figure out how to properly retrieve the information from the > archive. I tried the Import Mailboxes under the File menu, first pointing at > the folder containing my export and later pointing to the Mailboxes directory > in ~/Library/Mail/V2, but neither worked. I was able to retrieve what seemed > to be the containers for the mailboxes I had created, but I could not see any > emails within them. I tend to create several mailbox folders, with both > mailboxes and other subfolders within them. During the import, if I pointed > to the last mailbox within the hierarchy, I could import those emails, but if > I pointed to any location further back, I would only get folder names (or > nothing). Needless to say, with many hundreds of folders, this took many > hours and was m > ind-numbing. > > I know there is a better way, but I could not find it. Can anyone help me > out? > > Thanks, > > Gregg > > _______________________________________________ > MacOSX-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
