[Macpartners] Moving e-messages to a new Mac

[Allan Doyle]

Mail lives in your Library. This message, for example for me, is in

/Users/adoyle/Library/Mail/IMAP-afdoyle at po12.mit.edu/INBOX.imapmbox/ 
Messages on my mac.

There's a bit of an issue with Spotlight and Mail, I think. You can  
force Spotlight to index messages if you do Mailbox->Rebuild but  
there's no way to do it en masse for more than one mailbox at a time.

I have no idea what happens if you import Eudora or mbox files locally

I used to have years of email, too. I've found that it's harder to  
keep a decent archive when using IMAP vs. POP. On IMAP, I feel like I  
need to archive on both my laptop and my work machine and I have not  
come up with a decent system for that yet.

I found the move to Leopard to be a bit of a pain, but that had more  
to do with all the stuff I use "underneath" like MacPorts.

	Allan

On Apr 15, 2008, at 9:39 PM, Marion Leeds Carroll wrote:
> I have been storing email on my HD forever, because I use it for vital
> "how-to" information, as well as for keeping a record of my activities
> and my colleagues' addresses.  This goes back to my years with Eudora,
> and my record-keeping is so formalized that when I moved from Eudora
> to AppleMail, I set up the same "virtual filing cabinet" of emails on
> my HD, rather than set up a whole new set of mailboxes on the server.
>
> I have a new Mac... a Leopard instead of a Panther... and I'm
> struggling with moving things in.  My boss picked up the whole Mail
> program for me (among other things) and dropped it into my Leopard...
> but as the weeks go by, I'm finding there are important pieces of
> email that got left behind.  I still have my Panther, and can find the
> information on it... but eventually I'll have to give up the old cat
>
> I've been trying to figure out where the emails actually live on the
> HD, hoping I can manually drag the files from one machine to the
> other... but I can't find them.  Using the "Spotlight" search feature
> doesn't help.  Does anyone know the answer?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Marion Leeds Carroll
> MIT Libraries Web Assistant
> mlcar at mit.edu
>
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Allan Doyle
Director of Technology
MIT Museum