on 2014-05-11 15:19 Dinse, Gregg (NIH/NIEHS) [V] wrote
Hi Steve,
Well, that's what I thought as well, but it did not work in my current case.
As I mentioned in my original post, this did not capture any mailboxes that
were in mail folders (and subfolders). If all of my mailboxes were at the top
level, it probably would have worked fine. But I have a lot of things like,
for example, Apple/hardware, Apple/software, etc. In fact, I have some
directories that are 3 or 4 layers deep. Any mailboxes within such subfolders
were not retrieved.
sorry - i didn't read to the end after you mentioned Export, assuming that
paragraph was all about exported mail not importing well, so i didn't see you
had used the more direct import approach
i have used Mail's Import on Thunderbird mbox files and (old) Mail mbox files,
but i don't think i've used it on the newer maildir-like folders
in a quick test (on 10.7, btw) i am getting null results attempting the latter
type of import from a copy of some of my own Mail store; Mail finishes
suspiciously quickly on a 34 MB multi-folder archive, tells me to look for
results in a mailbox called Import, but there is no such mailbox; here is
someone else reporting the same behavior, but no solution:
<https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6069491>
i recalled an old way of doing this and it seems to work (again, on 10.7): copy
the old original mail folders (from the old V2/Mailboxes/) to the new
V2/Mailboxes/ then relaunch Mail; for me, the mailboxes appeared under On My
Mac, but were empty until i individually selected them and chose Mailbox >
Rebuild; then all the messages appeared
although i had renamed the top level mailbox, but it took it's old name based
on the info.plist file; if i deleted info.plist before launching Mail, the
mailbox didn't appear; i haven't extensively tested this or looked for
references on the technique
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