Can Mail.app 3.3 Work on 10.3.9?

Hi all,
I'm letting my wife use my computer for some weeks and I want to simply take my whole Mail folder and chunk it over onto her computer. Trouble is I'm using 10.5.4 and she's using 10.3.9. Can I still do this wild thing? Or must I try to export four years of mail in some format that her older Mail version can read?
Please please tell me this will work!
Thanks,
Franz

Hi, Franz.
Can Mail.app 3.3 Work on 10.3.9?
No. Mail 3.3 requires a later OS. It won't run in Panther.
If you are swapping computers with your wife for a few weeks and need to make her old Tibook compatible with your Mail files, consider taking the following temporary measures:
1. Make a bootable clone of the Tibook's hard drive on an external drive. Verify that the clone is bootable and all in good order.
2. Erase the Tibook's drive and install Leopard on it so you can use it while your wife has your machine. Note that if the Tibook is slower than 867MHz, Leopard isn't supported on it.
3. Use it until you convince your wife to return your computer to you. (Good luck with that!)
4. Transfer your own new data from the Tibook onto your Mac.
5. Clone the backup of your wife's drive back onto the Tibook, restoring it to exactly the condition it was in when she handed it to you.
6. Transfer your wife's new data from your computer onto the Tibook. Note, of course, that data created by the new versions of some apps on your machine won't be readable by the older versions of those apps on her machine. Your wife will have to be very careful about what apps she uses and/or what file formats she saves data in while she has your Mac.
On the whole, I suspect the temporary computer swap is going to be fraught with land mines for both of you, and I strongly suggest that if there's any way you can afford just to get your wife a new computer comparable to yours, you do so.
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