How to move messages from one computer to another?

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How to move messages from one computer to another?

Just got my new iMac and have successfully transferred everything over from my old computer except the mail in the mailboxes.

Anyone know how to do that?

24" iMac Intel Core 2 Duo, Mac OS X (10.5.1), iPod Touch

Posted on Nov 28, 2007 8:48 PM

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scb

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Nov 28, 2007 8:51 PM in response to ParallelP

From the File menu in mail, select Import. Navigate to the old computer (connected via Target mode). Go to ~/Library/mail, and look for POP or IMAP folder names. They begin with these, and have a " - " in them. Import one for each account.

You could also use that Mail folder, and ~/Library/preferences/com.apple.mail.plist, and replace them on the Leo install, to rebuild.

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Nov 28, 2007 9:03 PM in response to scb

Thanks so much! That was totally easy!

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