Q: Manual Mail Migration

Hi,

Does anyone know how to manually migrate email from another computer via target mode or external clone to a new mac running El Capitan - WITHOUT using Apple's migration assistant?

I've done this for years for clients and can't figure it out in El Capitan. I used to move these files/folders:

User - Library - Mail Folder

User - Library - Containers - com.apple.mail - data - Library - Mail Downloads

User - Library - Containers - com.apple.mail - data - Library - Preferences - com.apple.mail.plist

This always worked moving to Mavericks or Yosemite Macs... but not El Capitan.

Any thoughts on what to move?

When I did this for a client - it said migrating mail when launched... but then only showed the iCloud account - even though I moved 13GB of various IMAP and POP3 accounts, local folders, etc. Also - none of the actual email accounts appeared in mail preferences - just iCloud.

Thanks!

Sam

iMac (27-inch, Late 2012), OS X Yosemite (10.10.1)

Posted on Oct 29, 2015 9:42 PM

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ApMaX Sep 6, 2016 3:54 PM in response to apple_mikey
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Sep 6, 2016 3:54 PM in response to apple_mikey

Thanks, apple_mikey. I have done as you said to move Apple Mail from one external SSD previously used as iMac booting Mac disk with El Capitan (broken, allowing to read only, not allowing to boot now) to a new external iMac SSD booting disk also with Mac El Capitan. I had to log as root to access the library directories of the broken SSD and copy them into the new SSD.

Yet, after rebooting from the new SSD, Apple Mail does not show any mailboxes or messages. It is empty. How to see all mailboxes and messages in such new booting SSD? Thanks again.
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ApMaX Sep 7, 2016 5:01 AM in response to apple_mikey
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Sep 7, 2016 5:01 AM in response to apple_mikey

apple_mikey, further to my previous message, do you know if is it also required to replace “Users/~/Library/Preferences/MobileMeAccounts.plist” as explained by dianeoforegon in the link below?

“Apple Mail in El Capitan - where is data that used to be in Accounts.pilst?”
http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/231543/apple-mail-in-el-capitan-where-i s-data-that-used-to-be-in-accounts-pilst
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