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Import or export mailboxes

How to best export mailboxes from El Capitan in order to import in Catalina? Apple official instructions apply only back to Sierra: https://support.apple.com/en-ca/guide/mail/mlhlp1030/mac


Specifically, I have MacBook Pro 13-inch mid-2009 stuck at El Capitan. I want to import its mailboxes unto a new MacBook Air 13 2019 running the latest version of Catalina.


Any advice will be appreciated!

MacBook Pro 13", OS X 10.11

Posted on Dec 20, 2019 7:40 AM

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Posted on Jan 11, 2020 10:53 AM

Here’s what I ended up doing:

1) El Capitan was cloned on an external harddrive

2) External HD was connected to the new machine running Catalina

3) On Cataline, within the Mail App > Import Mailboxes... > choose “Apple Mail” continue > navigate to the external HD and find user/library/mail

4) Import


All the mailboxes from the old machine (in my case running El Capitan) will then be imported in a seprate folder within Mail.

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Jan 11, 2020 10:53 AM in response to Parneix

Here’s what I ended up doing:

1) El Capitan was cloned on an external harddrive

2) External HD was connected to the new machine running Catalina

3) On Cataline, within the Mail App > Import Mailboxes... > choose “Apple Mail” continue > navigate to the external HD and find user/library/mail

4) Import


All the mailboxes from the old machine (in my case running El Capitan) will then be imported in a seprate folder within Mail.

Import or export mailboxes

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