Re: Merging mail accounts ?

2014-12-24 Thread Jean-Christophe Helary
Thank you both for the hints. It definitely looks like I'm going to spend a big chunk of the vacations testing that... Jean-Christophe On Dec 24, 2014, at 15:59, Matt Penna matthew.pe...@gmail.com wrote: Another option that might be useful is using an IMAP account as an intermediary, if

Merging mail accounts ?

2014-12-23 Thread Jean-Christophe Helary
I've kept an old machine with my old mail running while using a new machine with the exact same pop mail accounts. Now, I'd like to merge the two sets... And it doesn't look like there is a trivial way to do this. Does any of you have any advice ? Jean-Christophe Helary

Re: Merging mail accounts ?

2014-12-23 Thread Macs R We
Mail has an archival export function (Mailbox / Export Mailbox and File / Import Mailboxes). I’ve never used the former, but together they sound like the sort of thing that would do what you want. On Dec 23, 2014, at 7:45 PM, Jean-Christophe Helary jean.christophe.hel...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: Merging mail accounts ?

2014-12-23 Thread Matt Penna
Another option that might be useful is using an IMAP account as an intermediary, if you have access to such an account. Copy the messages from the old machine to the IMAP account so they're stored on the server, then copy them off the server to the local mailboxes on the new machine. Good