Hi Steven, Don't be too concerned about the underlying mechanism of the Mailboxes folder. There are many explanations for all of this.
In the case of the Mailboxes folders, multi-part MIME messages are stored across multiple files (one file for each part). Multi-part MIME messages are probably the majority of messages on the internet these days. So your Mailboxes folder contains 290 Parts, not 290 Messages. Also don't worry about the discrepancy in megabytes. It is normal. Firstly, each emlx file has some metadata appended to it, so it is slightly larger than the server size. Moreover, many e-mail parts are smaller than the "allocation block size" (physical block size) of modern hard disks, so there is space wasted. Mac will report the true physical allocation size AND the logical byte size of the data contained within the files, whereas servers will usually report only the logical byte size (which is smaller than the physical allocation size). But I realise this doesn't help you solve your problem. To here's how to make Apple Mail import your imapmbox. Firstly, copy your INBOX.imapbox from backup (or Library folder) to your Desktop. COPY it, do not try to import the original to itself or you could create a loop. Then rename the copy from INBOX.imapmbox to INBOX.mbox. You can now import it into Mail and delete the COPY. The imported messages will appear in an 'Import' folder under the heading of 'On My Mac'. You can then move the messages to your IMAP folder. The reason for this trickery is that Apple Mail only imports LOCAL mailboxes, so you need make it interpret the cached IMAP (server) folder as a LOCAL folder even though it is actually a cached IMAP (server) folder. James -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[email protected]>
