Transferring Mail messages

Matt Johnston pelorus at mac.com
Mon Dec 11 12:23:21 PST 2006


On 7 Dec 2006, at 14:22, Steven DeWitt wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have an iMac and an iBook and use Mail as my mail application.  
> Until now, I have been using the iMac as my "main" e-mail  
> workstation and then using the iBook to check e-mail periodically (I  
> have Mail configured so that messages sit on my server until I have  
> moved them out of the inbox on the iMac). Now however I want to  
> start using my iBook as my main mail workstation. I can change the  
> configuration so that messages sit on my server until I move them  
> out of my inbox on the iBook instead, but is there a way to transfer  
> all old messages sitting in folders on my iMac to my iBook?

I just move the following across

~/Library/Mail
~/Library/Mail Downloads
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Mail.plist



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