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Q: Apple Mail V3 does not show as POP-eharrold@mail.example.com but as 123ABCDE-456E-6678A-C345-D436B6EEEE6A

Mac Finder does not show entries like

/Users/~/Library/Mail/V3/POP-eharrold@mail.example.com

as described in

Mail (El Capitan): Import or export mailboxes

https://support.apple.com/kb/PH22318

 

Instead, it shows something like

/Users/~/Library/Mail/V3/123ABCDE-456E-6678A-C345-D436B6EEEE6A

 

The consequence is that such format is not recognized by Apple Mail "File - Import Mailboxes", which makes a mess and reports missing messages when trying to import mailboxes and mails from there.

 

How to fix it? Thanks.

 

Mac OS X 10.11.6 (15G1004) El Capitan on iMac (late 2012) booted from external SSD.

Posted on Sep 8, 2016 6:58 AM

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