Import mail accounts from snow leopard

I had a Mac OS X 10.6 server with mailserver enabled.
The system drive went down, but I managed to save most of the data after weeks of work.
However, in the meantime, I had to setup a new mailserver on a Mac OS X 10.7 lion server.
So, now the new mailserver has all new mails, but I need to import the old mails into the new accounts.
OD accounts was exported from OS X 10.6 server and imported to OS X 10.7
How can I import the mail data into the new accounts from my recovered data, without deleting the new mails ?
I don't think the migrate process will work, as the new server is up and running and has a lot of new mails already....
( by the way, there is an error in Apple's documentation for migrating script process.... )

Could you please explain the whole process of exporting mail from Snow to Lion. I have been trying for weeks on two diffrent computers and I can not get it to work.
I have moved the library, not sure to delete the envelopes. How do you export the mbox-files ? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance!

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Import mail folders from Snow Leopard into Lion

Hi,
I've just switched from my MacBook Pro (MAC OS X Snow Leopard) to a new iMac (MAC OS X Lion). On both machines, I've been using Apple Mail.
Now I want to import the Mail folders from the Mail in Snow Leopard to the Mail in Lion. When using FILE > IMPORT FOLDER nothing was imported: Both settings, importing from Apple Mail and importing ".mbox" files, did end in a message saying that the folders could not be imported.
So I figured out how to access the library folder in my user account on lion and pasted all the mailboxes from Snow Leopard to LIBRARY/MAIL/V2/MAILBOXES. After that, I deleted the "envelope" files from LIBRARY/MAIL/V2/MAILDATA. I started Mail and it created the envelope files from scratch. Now I can see the mail folders, but they are all empty! However, when I browse to the mailbox files in the Finder (LIBRARY/MAIL/V2/MAILBOXES), I can see that each mailbox ".mbox" folder has an "Info.plist" and a folder "Messages". Those folders are not emtpy!
How can I get my Mail in Lion to properly display the messages in the folders?
Any comments are welcome! Thanks for your support!!
Regards,
Matthias

Could you please explain the whole process of exporting mail from Snow to Lion. I have been trying for weeks on two diffrent computers and I can not get it to work.
I have moved the library, not sure to delete the envelopes. How do you export the mbox-files ? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance!

Will Lion install correctly handle multiple accounts from Snow Leopard?

Will Lion install correctly handle multiple accounts from Snow Leopard? Will current settings, DOCS etc be carried over?

I found the solution to my problem after I upgraded and it lies with the X509 Anchors.
SOLUTION: Go to /Library/Preferences/com.apple.security-common.plist (it may be a hidden file) and change it to /Library/Preferences/com.apple.security-common.plist.bak. This should remove the system calling to old outdated anchors and allow it to use the new security protocols under Lion's sandboxing feature.
It worked for me and mail runs fine.

Import Mail account to different Leopard user Mail account

I am looking for the proper way to import/copy files and folders from a given Mail account to a different Leopard account.
Basically, create a new user account in Leopard then import from the previous account all Mail setting and data (useful when your account crashes and you need to start fresh on a different account and bring back all your data to this new account).
A technique that both works in Tiger and Leopard.
Thanks!

quit Mail and copy the entire folder /users/username/library/mail AND the file /users/username/library/preferences/com.apple.mail.plist from the first account to the corresponding places on the second account.
as you won't have access to the second account's home directory directly, copy this stuff to /Users/Shared first.

Network user cannot migrate AppleMail account from Snow Leopard to Lion 10.7.1.

I have a network user that is trying to open Apple Mail on a mini running Lion 10.7.1 for the first time. This user previously used a mini that is running Snow Leopard. Apple Mail is trying to perform an import I assume because Apple Mail 5 on the Lion is different then the version running on Snow Leopard? The import fails and says to press Continue to allow the Migration Assistant to create a new library. When we do this, the system responds that the Mail Index is damaged, to quit and reopen Mail so it can be repaired. We get the same set of messages when we close and go back into Mail.
When I access the console logs, here is what I saw:
10/18/11 12:23:01.647 PM Mail: Upgrade failed because of exception: Could not move /Network/Servers/server.aigtechnologies.net/Volumes/Data/Users/javier/Library/M ail/V2-Temp.noindex to /Network/Servers/server.aigtechnologies.net/Volumes/Data/Users/javier/Library/M ail/V2; ERROR: Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=513 "“V2-Temp.noindex” couldn’t be moved because you don’t have permission to access “Mail”." UserInfo=0x7fec021161b0 {NSUserStringVariant=(
Move
), NSDestinationFilePath=/Network/Servers/server.aigtechnologies.net/Volumes/Data/ Users/javier/Library/Mail/V2, NSFilePath=/Network/Servers/server.aigtechnologies.net/Volumes/Data/Users/javie r/Library/Mail/V2-Temp.noindex, NSUnderlyingError=0x7fec021144b0 "The operation couldn’t be completed. Permission denied"}
My interpretation of this message is that either the ACL or POSIX permissions are not set correctly for the user. When I log into Server Admin and check this though, ACL is set to allow Full Control for the user's folder and all children folders. The POSIX is set to Read&Write for the user's folder and all of the children files.
I read some of the discussions and tried removing all of the contents of the V2-Temp file, but this creates the same result.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Charlene

I have a network user that is trying to open Apple Mail on a mini running Lion 10.7.1 for the first time. This user previously used a mini that is running Snow Leopard. Apple Mail is trying to perform an import I assume because Apple Mail 5 on the Lion is different then the version running on Snow Leopard? The import fails and says to press Continue to allow the Migration Assistant to create a new library. When we do this, the system responds that the Mail Index is damaged, to quit and reopen Mail so it can be repaired. We get the same set of messages when we close and go back into Mail.
When I access the console logs, here is what I saw:
10/18/11 12:23:01.647 PM Mail: Upgrade failed because of exception: Could not move /Network/Servers/server.aigtechnologies.net/Volumes/Data/Users/javier/Library/M ail/V2-Temp.noindex to /Network/Servers/server.aigtechnologies.net/Volumes/Data/Users/javier/Library/M ail/V2; ERROR: Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=513 "“V2-Temp.noindex” couldn’t be moved because you don’t have permission to access “Mail”." UserInfo=0x7fec021161b0 {NSUserStringVariant=(
Move
), NSDestinationFilePath=/Network/Servers/server.aigtechnologies.net/Volumes/Data/ Users/javier/Library/Mail/V2, NSFilePath=/Network/Servers/server.aigtechnologies.net/Volumes/Data/Users/javie r/Library/Mail/V2-Temp.noindex, NSUnderlyingError=0x7fec021144b0 "The operation couldn’t be completed. Permission denied"}
My interpretation of this message is that either the ACL or POSIX permissions are not set correctly for the user. When I log into Server Admin and check this though, ACL is set to allow Full Control for the user's folder and all children folders. The POSIX is set to Read&Write for the user's folder and all of the children files.
I read some of the discussions and tried removing all of the contents of the V2-Temp file, but this creates the same result.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Charlene

Moving accounts from Snow Leopard Macs to Mac mini with Snow Leopard Server

I got my brand spanking new Mac mini today with Snow Leopard Server! So far, we (at home) were managing our accounts on individual iMacs and a MacBook Pro. While I will be getting into the innards of account migration, management etc. I thought I'd post a quick question here; Currently I have an iMac with three user accounts on it (wife and two kids). I also have my own personal MacBook Pro with my account (the only Admin account) on it. We'll soon be getting another iMac for our daughter (who currently has an account on the existing iMac). My idea in getting the Mac mini was to move to and centrally manage all the user accounts in the household on the Mac mini server. What is the best way to accomplish this? What is the best way to move the existing accounts on to the server?
Additionally, I'll be looking into connecting the two stationary iMacs with Powerline Ethernet (where one runs Ethernet over existing electrical wires in the walls). My other option would be to rely on wireless network (I don't think this would be a good idea for if I am going to be placing the user accounts on the server and there needs to be a constant on, reliable connection between the server and the client computers as they will be talking to each other a lot!). Any thoughts on Powerline? (I am not looking forward to installing Ethernet cabling behind walls :o))
What say the wise men of Mactopia?!
Thanks,
Kenneth.
P.S. I had earlier accidentally posted this in the corresponding section of Mac OS X instead of the Mac OS X Server forum.

Ok so the esiest way to explain this is to tell you what i just went through.
I have 3 user accounts. All the accounts are network Users meaning that there home folder are kept on the server. I was having a problem with Time Machine giving me error 41 and error 11. After scratching my head for 2 days I ended up copying (Drag-n-Drop) the Home Folders to an External Hard Drive. I then proceeded to erase both of the internal hard drives on the mac mini and did a fresh local install of the Server OS.
Everything was fine at that point. Now this is where Snow Leopard stopped being nice.
I went and Created the user account again using WGM. I let WGW create the home folder and the 9 folder inside. I made sure the short names were the same and the passwords were the same as they were previously.
However, once i Copied files from the external drive to the home folders the permissions copied as well, Which i guess should be expected. So now at this point apparently the UID's of the newly created users wasn't the same as they were before the clean install. I have multiple instances of root listed in the ACL for several folders and also had several instances of System listed sporadically.
Now, This isn't to say that you can't drag n drop because now That I have it all squared away and everything is now working ok, I would probably still drag n drop the home folder off to an external disk, but only because I now know what to do to clean things up.
if you drag and drop be sure to use the CHOWN command and theCHMOD commands afterwards. Take a look at this MacFixIt article: http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-20013630-263.html?tag=mncol;title
If you copy your local imac users to the home directory on the server you may want to follow the steps on the URL I gave plus you will most likely also have to do the following. In a nutshell you are going to use the chmod command to strip all the ACL Permissions then you are going to use the chown command to re-specify the correct owner and the correct permissions for the network user.
!) Go into ServerAdmin and click on Sharing
2) Go to the users folder you are using and select the user you are going to work with.
3) Click on the Permissions option
4) click on the +sign at the bottom (this will open the users & groups list to the right)
5) Drag the current user from the users list to the owner permissions line under posix section
5a) Click Save
6) Click on the Gear button at the bottom
7) Check the box for Owner Name and Owner Permissions.
8) Uncheck the box for Access Control List then click ok
Once you've gone through that rigmarole you can go back into ServerAdmin and fix the permissions for public and Sites folder which should only take a minute or so.
So the moral of this story and as I found out when i ended up calling Enterprise support is that the act of dragging and dropping user home directories from one server to another, or as in your case, from a local machine to a the server isn't anything that apple recommends or supports. you might want to read through the man pages for "Ditto" or so apple tells me, but honestly now that you know, the steps above aren't all that bad. It's true Knowing IS half the battle!
have Fun!
P.S. FWIW If you run into problems and have to call Enterprise Support be prepared for them to tell you to refer to the user Guides. So reading those would be to your advantage even though they aren't the easiest things to understand unlike apple's consumer products user guides

Importing Mail account from v.3.6 to mail v.4.3, help please

I am attempting to transition one large mailbox (40k+ emails) from an imac running 10.5.8(mail v3.6) to a new imac with 10.6 and mail v.4.3.
Migration assistant was used to move the user documents file overnight, however the new imac had been created with a new User account. The Mail files were then dragged manually into the new users Library. Upon starting mail for the first time it did not recognize the files from v.3.6 as a new mail account. The users previous account info was entered, and resulted in mail attempting to download 45000 emails:( even though the emails were visible in the new imacs Mail application.
Mail that has been sorted into folders by name, is readable and seemingly all there, however mail unsorted in the Inbox contains all blank emails.
Importing the mailbox doesnt seem necessary at this point, need to prevent mail from attempting to download the entire 40k(30gigs worth) of mail when checking for new mail.
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Bump! Any related experiences appreciated:)

How do I migrate my Mail configuration from Snow Leopard to Lion manually?

I wasn't able to move the data from my old MacBook to my new MacBook running Lion, because I was using FileVault on the old system, and the Migration Assistant doesn't support home directories with FileVault enabled.
I've managed to migrate everything without issue -- Music, Photos, Movies -- all worked great. However, when I try to start Mail under Lion, I get prompted to reconfigure Mail. I've copied the ~/Library/Mail folder and the Preferences file (com.apple.mail.plist) to the new laptop (via SFTP) but Mail won't pick up from where it left off.
Is there something I've missed? How should I perform this migration?
Thanks in advance.

Lion mail is different than SL. It should have converted the old content to the new format when you opened Mail. Quit Mail and move the contents of the Mail folder from the home Library to the desktop.
When you start Mail, use the import from Apple Mail feature to import everything from that folder. That should bring in all accounts and mailboxes in Mail.

I just bought a mac and I used the migration assistant so I could have all my files, but I got my account from Snow Leopard and now I don't have Lion anymore?

If anyone knows what my next step is, please help! Thanks

Are you absolutely sure that your new Mac had Lion installed? If so, are you now absolutely sure you are running Snow Leopard? What does About This Mac under the Apple icon in the menu say about what system you are running.
Snow Leopard will not install on top of Lion. You have to erase the HD to downgrade from Lion to Snow Leopard. Migration Assistant doesn't have the capability of doing this.

How long does it take to migrate mail data from snow leopard to lion. Waiting for hours

OK, so here I thought I was solving a calendar sync problem by updating my OS from 10.6.8 to 10.7.3. Initially unable to load the mail app, however this seemed to work after taking out the "envelope index" file as suggested in this forum. New mail program loaded, but now stuck with rolling blue and white candy bar on a window inside the "Mail Upgrade" window stating "migrating data ...".Thinking I might simply have a lot of data I waited 5 (!!) hours,... No change. I went back to Finder and once again removed the envelope index file as well as all files with a .plist extension. Again started mail, again stuck with the screen "migrating data". So my question: Do I just have to wait (and then for how long? Days?), or do I have to tweek my MacBook Pro a little to be able to once again read and write e-mail?
Thanks

12 hours and did not finish. Still left with the message: migrating data. I cannot imagine what the program is doing.
So I force quit mail and cleaned up everything I know to clean up: went to folder "~/library/Mail" and deleted everything I thought was not needed. Emptied the trash. Now, of course, I have a fair amount of mails in different folders that are stored in the mail program. But from a total data amount point of view this should be trivial.
Restarted mail, get the screen: "Mail Message Import", click "Continue"
Then program successfully imports 4563 messages in less than 2 minutes.
Then - once again - rotating candy bar with message "migrating data ..."
There is no way to see what is actually happening and no way to stop the process other than force quit.
Help!!!

Manually Transfer Mail from Snow Leopard to Mavericks

I'm having trouble moving my mail accounts from Snow Leopard (iMac) to Mavericks (MacBook).
For the past several months I have been using both computers, but with all my Mail work taking place on the iMac/Snow Leopard. Now I'm ready to use the MacBook exclusively. Using Migration Assistant isn't an option because it won't consolidate two user accounts.
I followed the suggestions elsewhere and copied the ~/Library/Mail folder from the iMac (SL) to the MacBook's Library folder, replacing the Mail folder there.
I then launched Mail.app. After 20-or-so minutes of processing, Mail.app asked me to create a new account. I chose 'Cancel' which caused Mail to automatically quit. So I went to the iCloud preference and turned on Mail (I had previously set it to Off). I then launched Mail.app again.
I repeated this three times with the same results:
- None of the mail accounts (I have a dozen of them) and none of their mailboxes (Inbox/Sent/Trash/...) showed up: neither under Mailboxes in the left panel, nor in Maill.app's Accounts preferences.
- All of the 'On My Mac' folders appeared, but they were empty. Rebuilding the folders brought back most of the messages, but some messages were missing (the message counts in the various folders were lower by about 1~2%).
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
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If the two machine's have two different username/password combos, you cant' do what you want. The only solution is to create a duplicate account on the MB, mimicking the one on the iMac and then copy the Mail folder into that user's Library folder. Then, use that as your primary user account, deleting the the useless other one.

Moving mail from Snow Leopard running on an external disk

I have been operating my computer with Snow Leopard on an external Hard Drive for quite some time and downloaded Mountain Lion onto my internal disk so I could play with it before making the big plunge. I have not set up the Mail program on Mountain Lion but now want to move my mail setup from Snow Leopard.
How do I do that? Will I be able to keep my folders etc.?

Though you have not provided the model number of the MBP, I suspect that the given unit came with an OS newer than 10.5. A MBP will not run an older version OS than the original.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2186
Ciao.

Does Updating To Lion From Snow Leopard Delete All Existing 802.1X Profiles

Hello.
I Was Just Wondering If I Installed Lion On My White Macbook Running The Latest Version Of Snow Leopard, Whether My 802.1x Profiles Will Be Migrated Across Or Deleted.
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I did, and my profiles are gone, and if you look at other posts, they cannot be easily added.
I am accessing my 802.1x profiles when I start up from Snow Leopard, and my question would be how I could import the profiles from Snow Leopard?
Helga

How do I import mail from Snow Leopard to Lion Mail?

Tried dragging ~/Library/Mail files and folders across.
But Mail insisted on my setting up an accounr (I have several) and put everything into that one account.
Anyone know of a foolproof doc./url or checklist, please, which explains how to get everything that was in Snow Leopard Mail into Lion Mail?
Thanks!

similar "solution" for how to import ical from snow leopard to lion:
1) copy the following files (e.g. from a snow leopard backup) prior to first opening ical:
1a) ~/Library/Keychains/ (folder "Keychains")
1b) ~/Library/Calendars (folders "Calendars")
1c) ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.iCal.* (ical preferences files, "com.apple.iCal.helper.plist", "com.apple.iCal.plist")
1d) ~/Library/Preferences/iCalExternalSync.plist
2) then open ical in lion ... import/update will follow
if you have opened ical prior to the above steps these files (1b, 1c and 1d ) have already been created, so you have to replace them with your backups from snow leopard described above
if you have set up calendar accounts in system preferences "Mail, Contacts & Calendars" you might have to delete them before applying the above steps
ps:
not quite sure if the following steps are necessary (or did help) for mail/ical import, because mobileme sync works now different in lion (no option for syncing calendars anymore within system preferences—>mobileme) ...
i did a mobileme sync in snow leopard prior to the clean install of lion with:
Calendars
Mail Accounts
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Importing Mail files and config to Yosemite from Snow Leopard

Hello,
Can someone explain to me where i must copy my SNOW LEOPARD Mail files to on Yosemtie. I can't find the Mail file path on my new Yosemite Macbook pro
I really need my 40gb+ of mails from snow Leopard before i cant begin using this computer.
Thanks.
MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2014), OS X Yosemite (10.10.1)

Do a backup.
Quit the application.
Go to Finder and select your user/home folder. With that Finder window as the front window, either select Finder/View/Show View options or go command - J. When the View options opens, check ’Show Library Folder’. That should make your user library folder visible in your user/home folder. Select Library/Mail/V2.

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