Apple-Mail: Migrating offline IMAP account contents to new server
Scenario: The old IMAP Server is no longer reachable. There's one Mac that has had access to all company accounts and holds copies of all emails, fully sync until the minute the old mail servers have been shut down. There are new mailservers now (entirely different data center). All mail accounts and addresses have been created on the new server. Unfortunately, since the old data center (1&1) has dropped all associated data (the domain has been moved as well), we'd like to copy the local copies of the old, offline accounts (mails still showing and opening with all attachments) into the new IMAP accounts which have as well all been added to said Mac. This all sounded too easy to work from scratch, Apple Mail hangs in "preparing to copy" from the offline accounts. Any ideas? PS feel free to improve my question, my english is not the very best and I am yet not too familiar with formatting text on stack either. Since I believe I won't stay the only one with this problem and since I did not find a similar question that fixes my issue, I think this is the correct place to ask for advice. Cheers in advance.
Edit: It must be possible somehow, because a few mails have been copied after ages of waiting. There must be a way to do this faster. I've copied like 10 out of 1000+ E-Mails yet.
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asked Dec 3 at 8:46
Chris S.
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Scenario: The old IMAP Server is no longer reachable. There's one Mac that has had access to all company accounts and holds copies of all emails, fully sync until the minute the old mail servers have been shut down. There are new mailservers now (entirely different data center). All mail accounts and addresses have been created on the new server. Unfortunately, since the old data center (1&1) has dropped all associated data (the domain has been moved as well), we'd like to copy the local copies of the old, offline accounts (mails still showing and opening with all attachments) into the new IMAP accounts which have as well all been added to said Mac. This all sounded too easy to work from scratch, Apple Mail hangs in "preparing to copy" from the offline accounts. Any ideas? PS feel free to improve my question, my english is not the very best and I am yet not too familiar with formatting text on stack either. Since I believe I won't stay the only one with this problem and since I did not find a similar question that fixes my issue, I think this is the correct place to ask for advice. Cheers in advance.
Edit: It must be possible somehow, because a few mails have been copied after ages of waiting. There must be a way to do this faster. I've copied like 10 out of 1000+ E-Mails yet.
file-transfer copy-paste migration apple-mail
asked Dec 3 at 8:46
Chris S.
1063
My current workarround (posting it in the hope you don't have to waste hours to find a solution, like I had to), I'm using this tool currently cosmicsoft.net/emlxconvert.html
– Chris S.
Dec 3 at 16:28
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Scenario: The old IMAP Server is no longer reachable. There's one Mac that has had access to all company accounts and holds copies of all emails, fully sync until the minute the old mail servers have been shut down. There are new mailservers now (entirely different data center). All mail accounts and addresses have been created on the new server. Unfortunately, since the old data center (1&1) has dropped all associated data (the domain has been moved as well), we'd like to copy the local copies of the old, offline accounts (mails still showing and opening with all attachments) into the new IMAP accounts which have as well all been added to said Mac. This all sounded too easy to work from scratch, Apple Mail hangs in "preparing to copy" from the offline accounts. Any ideas? PS feel free to improve my question, my english is not the very best and I am yet not too familiar with formatting text on stack either. Since I believe I won't stay the only one with this problem and since I did not find a similar question that fixes my issue, I think this is the correct place to ask for advice. Cheers in advance.
Edit: It must be possible somehow, because a few mails have been copied after ages of waiting. There must be a way to do this faster. I've copied like 10 out of 1000+ E-Mails yet.
file-transfer copy-paste migration apple-mail
asked Dec 3 at 8:46
Chris S.
1063
Scenario: The old IMAP Server is no longer reachable. There's one Mac that has had access to all company accounts and holds copies of all emails, fully sync until the minute the old mail servers have been shut down. There are new mailservers now (entirely different data center). All mail accounts and addresses have been created on the new server. Unfortunately, since the old data center (1&1) has dropped all associated data (the domain has been moved as well), we'd like to copy the local copies of the old, offline accounts (mails still showing and opening with all attachments) into the new IMAP accounts which have as well all been added to said Mac. This all sounded too easy to work from scratch, Apple Mail hangs in "preparing to copy" from the offline accounts. Any ideas? PS feel free to improve my question, my english is not the very best and I am yet not too familiar with formatting text on stack either. Since I believe I won't stay the only one with this problem and since I did not find a similar question that fixes my issue, I think this is the correct place to ask for advice. Cheers in advance.
Edit: It must be possible somehow, because a few mails have been copied after ages of waiting. There must be a way to do this faster. I've copied like 10 out of 1000+ E-Mails yet.
file-transfer copy-paste migration apple-mail
file-transfer copy-paste migration apple-mail
asked Dec 3 at 8:46
Chris S.
1063
asked Dec 3 at 8:46
Chris S.
1063
edited Dec 3 at 10:29
asked Dec 3 at 8:46
Chris S.
1063
asked Dec 3 at 8:46
Chris S.
1063
asked Dec 3 at 8:46
Chris S.
1063
1063
My current workarround (posting it in the hope you don't have to waste hours to find a solution, like I had to), I'm using this tool currently cosmicsoft.net/emlxconvert.html
– Chris S.
Dec 3 at 16:28
add a comment |
My current workarround (posting it in the hope you don't have to waste hours to find a solution, like I had to), I'm using this tool currently cosmicsoft.net/emlxconvert.html
– Chris S.
Dec 3 at 16:28
My current workarround (posting it in the hope you don't have to waste hours to find a solution, like I had to), I'm using this tool currently cosmicsoft.net/emlxconvert.html
– Chris S.
Dec 3 at 16:28
My current workarround (posting it in the hope you don't have to waste hours to find a solution, like I had to), I'm using this tool currently cosmicsoft.net/emlxconvert.html
– Chris S.
Dec 3 at 16:28
add a comment |
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The good working solution without third party tools:
Do not export anything, just go to /Users/(You)/Library/Mail/
Browse through the folders and identify the desired mailbox by looking at some of the .emlx files
Import that folder into Apple Mail (Select Apple Mail, not MBOX)
Now you have a folder Imported/INBOX in your mailfolder from which you can drag the mails from.
I'm just pretty disappointed it took me over a half day to figure that out.
answered Dec 3 at 16:44
Chris S.
1063
Note it DOES work but due to the now not missing attachments, it can take pretty long for changes to show up.
– Chris S.
Dec 3 at 16:55
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The good working solution without third party tools:
Do not export anything, just go to /Users/(You)/Library/Mail/
Browse through the folders and identify the desired mailbox by looking at some of the .emlx files
Import that folder into Apple Mail (Select Apple Mail, not MBOX)
Now you have a folder Imported/INBOX in your mailfolder from which you can drag the mails from.
I'm just pretty disappointed it took me over a half day to figure that out.
answered Dec 3 at 16:44
Chris S.
1063
Note it DOES work but due to the now not missing attachments, it can take pretty long for changes to show up.
– Chris S.
Dec 3 at 16:55
add a comment |
The good working solution without third party tools:
Do not export anything, just go to /Users/(You)/Library/Mail/
Browse through the folders and identify the desired mailbox by looking at some of the .emlx files
Import that folder into Apple Mail (Select Apple Mail, not MBOX)
Now you have a folder Imported/INBOX in your mailfolder from which you can drag the mails from.
I'm just pretty disappointed it took me over a half day to figure that out.
answered Dec 3 at 16:44
Chris S.
1063
Note it DOES work but due to the now not missing attachments, it can take pretty long for changes to show up.
– Chris S.
Dec 3 at 16:55
add a comment |
The good working solution without third party tools:
Do not export anything, just go to /Users/(You)/Library/Mail/
Browse through the folders and identify the desired mailbox by looking at some of the .emlx files
Import that folder into Apple Mail (Select Apple Mail, not MBOX)
Now you have a folder Imported/INBOX in your mailfolder from which you can drag the mails from.
I'm just pretty disappointed it took me over a half day to figure that out.
answered Dec 3 at 16:44
Chris S.
1063
The good working solution without third party tools:
Do not export anything, just go to /Users/(You)/Library/Mail/
Browse through the folders and identify the desired mailbox by looking at some of the .emlx files
Import that folder into Apple Mail (Select Apple Mail, not MBOX)
Now you have a folder Imported/INBOX in your mailfolder from which you can drag the mails from.
I'm just pretty disappointed it took me over a half day to figure that out.
answered Dec 3 at 16:44
Chris S.
1063
answered Dec 3 at 16:44
Chris S.
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answered Dec 3 at 16:44
Chris S.
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answered Dec 3 at 16:44
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Note it DOES work but due to the now not missing attachments, it can take pretty long for changes to show up.
– Chris S.
Dec 3 at 16:55
add a comment |
Note it DOES work but due to the now not missing attachments, it can take pretty long for changes to show up.
– Chris S.
Dec 3 at 16:55
Note it DOES work but due to the now not missing attachments, it can take pretty long for changes to show up.
– Chris S.
Dec 3 at 16:55
Note it DOES work but due to the now not missing attachments, it can take pretty long for changes to show up.
– Chris S.
Dec 3 at 16:55
add a comment |
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My current workarround (posting it in the hope you don't have to waste hours to find a solution, like I had to), I'm using this tool currently cosmicsoft.net/emlxconvert.html
– Chris S.
Dec 3 at 16:28