Can't get Mail 4.3 to work on new Mac Mini

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Can't get Mail 4.3 to work on new Mac Mini

Hi! Hope someone can help. I have set my preferences in Mail 4.3 to look exactly the same as what I have set up in the G4 FW800 with 10.5.8. I have imported the mailbox from the G4. That worked. I deleted the /Home/Library/Mail/folder from the MacMini but have not emptied trash yet.I copied the old one on the G4 to the Mac Mini. I also copied the com.apple.mail...plist file from the G4 to the MacMini. I still can't get the Mail 4.3 to collect mail from comcast. I really don't want to hold onto the G4 just to get my email. Thanks for any help!

Mac Mini (2010) /G4 FW 800/ Beige G3 Tower/ Mac Plus, Mac OS X (10.6.4)

Posted on Jul 8, 2010 12:33 AM

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Answer 1

baltwo

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Jul 8, 2010 11:33 AM in response to Brian C.

Maybe I'm missing something, but if you've imported your mail stuff from the G4, why did you delete the Mail folder? Did you follow these Best Practices and migrate your stuff from the G4 to the new Mac Mini?

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C_C_T

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Jul 8, 2010 12:12 PM in response to Brian C.

Don't go any farther.
Go to Applications>Utilities>migration assistant.
and follow the steps.... and under no circumstance do not erase your G4 for a couple of days....until everything is working fine.
But do not use 2 machines to do the same mails.... unless you have a mobile me sync.They will be splitted between two machines.
If nothing works... why not set an appointment at the genius bar of you closest apple store ?

Good luck !

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Brian C. Author

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Jul 9, 2010 12:07 AM in response to baltwo

Sorry for the confusion. I was following the advice that Kappy gave someone in http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2485802&tstart=50

I didn't delete the file. Just moved it to trash.

However, I have tried something else. I looked at the best practices and I reinstalled the whole package and did a migration from my G4. All this did was move a few applications over. My settings for mail did not change. Nor did my bookmarks for Firefox move over. I can get the internet with no problems just not mail.

Thanks for your help!
Brian

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Brian C. Author

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Jul 9, 2010 12:09 AM in response to C_C_T

No worries. I don't plan on erasing the G4 for quite some time. Its going to be my storage backup for quite some time. I'll have it networked without Monitor and just pull stuff off of it as needed.

Brian

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baltwo

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Jul 9, 2010 12:13 AM in response to Brian C.

Thanks for clarifying. If you reinstalled the OS and on first boot used the setup assistant to do the migration, that should have transferred everything from the G4's Users folder. I don't do FireFox, so can't help with that issue.

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Brian C. Author

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Jul 9, 2010 1:06 AM in response to baltwo

No problem. However, I am an idiot. I should have set it up for POP instead of IMAP. Once I set it up for POP, everything started populating. So everything is great. (I use IMAP at work and just automatically used it for home).

Thanks for the suggestions! I like the best practices ideas.

Brian

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baltwo

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Jul 9, 2010 11:07 AM in response to Brian C.

Thanks for the feedback. Good computing.

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