Hi Bill,
Apple Mail keeps it's mail databases in your home folder, in the the
library folder, in the Mail folder.
HD/users/Bill/library/mail/
At least that's where I found mine. Or it might be just loose in your
home folder. I heard of one person that claimed their Apple Mail was
buried in the documents folder.
Each "Apple Mail"mailbox (account) has it's own database in Unix mbox
format. Look for the ones that are named "inbox.mbox". They will
probably be inside a folder named POP-account [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The odd thing is that Apple wraps these unix mbox files in a wrapper.
If you want to import them into another program, it probably won;'t even
notice these mbox files. You need to command-click the mbox file & "Show
package contents" in order to see the real mbox. Copy that thing out
where the other program can see it so it is available to be imported. So
now you know, just in case you get stuck & have to use ThunderBird or
other program that can import an mbox file.
Best,
Dave Nathanson
Bill McIntyre wrote:
On Jan 14, 2006, at 20:24 PM, Dave Nathanson wrote:
I recently learned (the hard way) that Apple Mail croaks when the db
gets to 1 gig for the Panther version and I think it can deal with a
db of up to 2 gig in the Tiger version. BUT that's INCLUDING
ATTACHMENTS! =:-0
That's good to know, but now I'm forced to embarrass myself by
admitting that I can't even find the Mail databass to see how large it
is now. In the previous OSs, I was forced to get into knowing where
extensions, control panels, etc. were because it was necessary in
order to keep things running. It seems that I've never had to figure
out where a lot of things are in OSX because it works so well, and a
quick search for the Mail database did not reveal its location to me.
Bill
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