Import mail boxes from Thunderbird crashes mail!

Has anyone any idea what I can do to ensure Mail does not crash when I import mail boxes from Thunderbird?
I would love to us Mail but unless I can bring my mailboxes it isn't happening.
Is there a file size limit or is Mail for Mac just flakey?

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.
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How can I import address books from Thunderbird to Mail?

I had to use Thunderbird for all my Mail, because I cannot import about 10 different e-mail address lists with a total of about 300
addresses (contacts) into the Mail application nor into the Contacts Application. Every other e-mail application, and every server
supports imports like this.
Apple appears to have no solution either. On Apple Support site for Mail and Contacts, it says "Support temporarily not available"
and said so for weeks. I tried to import into Contacts, using Thunderbird address book files converted to ..Idif format and Contacts
imported them import without any fuzz. The folders appeared in Contacts as sub-folder the same name I had in the export files.
After the import I quit both Mail and Contacts and restarted my MacbookAir, it runs on OS 10.8.5., Mail is version 6.6.
I opened up Mail and the new sub-folders were listed in its Address Book window, However when I clicked ao any of them, they
would not open. I opened the Contacts application, and the folders were still there but when I tried to open the they were empty.
Is there a way to import those addresses, so they will show up?

Thanks for trying to help but .mbox is used for mailboxes, not address lists (Contacts).
I understand that Apple Mail and Contacts use .csv files for their lists, and I was able to
import my first Contact List using that type of File, but then was only table to get the name
the content of one List imported.
Last thing I tried, I used my Webmail Server which can import all address books (Contacts) and
export them across all sorts of different e-mail applications (they list about 10 different types)
and yes, the only missing is Apple Mail.
Looks like I am stuck with having to use Thunderbird, because I Mail will not import my
Contacts.

Importing mail from Thunderbird to Mail

I have discovered the secret. With MobileMe and push email coming with the new iPhone 2.0 upgrade, I decided it was time to stop using Thunderbird and start using Mail. The problem was that when I began to import Thunderbird mail into "Mail" I ran into all kinds of problems - some Thunderbird mail boxes were not recognized, some were imported but had a fraction of the emails in that folder imported, and etc.
Well, here's the solution and this is what I did - go to Eudora's web site, and find and download: "Eudora Mailbox Cleaner 4.8" - it is a small application that I saved on my desktop. Then I followed the following steps:
1. I compacted my Thunderbird mailboxes first (choose "File → Compact Folders" from the menu in Thunderbird) to remove already deleted messages from the mails files and to speed up the migration process.
2. Then I located my Thunderbird profile folder and dragged it onto the 'Eudora Mailbox Cleaner' icon in the Finder. Then I chose the drop-down menu item to select Thunderbird instead of Eudora (just followed the appropriate settings in the dialog, with Thunderbird as the source application which migrated my messages to Apple Mail).
3. All my mail data from Thunderbird showed up in Mail - Import folder - when I restarted Mail.
4. One more step - I then had to select each imported folder and go to the Menu item: "Mailbox/Rebuild" and the folder that looked empty was filled with all the imported messages.
5. It was slick, and I made the 3 days I had fretted over the process, trying everything I could think of, seem like a distant bad dream.
Paul Huddle
P.S. When you download the Eudora app, it comes with a read-me that explains way more then is needed to complete the process.

You’d get better results if you use Eudora Mailbox Cleaner to do the conversion instead.

Importing mailboxes from Thunderbird to mail

I'm trying to Importing mailboxes from Thunderbird to mail. All it seems to do is import some, how do I get it to import all from Thunderbird.

Two ways to go...
1st...
"Try Disk Utility
1. Insert the Tiger Mac OS X Install disc that came with your computer, then restart the computer while holding the C key.
2. When your computer finishes starting up from the disc, choose Disk Utility from the Installer menu. (In Mac OS X 10.4 or later, you must select your language first.)
Important: Do not click Continue in the first screen of the Installer. If you do, you must restart from the disc again to access Disk Utility.
3. Click the First Aid tab.
4. Click the disclosure triangle to the left of the hard drive icon to display the names of your hard disk volumes and partitions.
5. Select your Mac OS X volume.
6. Click Repair. Disk Utility checks and repairs the disk."
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214
Then Safe Boot , (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, reboot when it finishes.
PS. Safe boot may stay on the gray radian for a long time, let it go, it's trying to repair the Hard Drive.
2nd...
Get Applejack...
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/19596
After installing, Reboot holding down CMD+s, (+s), then when the DOS like prompt shows, type in...
applejack AUTO
Then let it do all 5 of it's things.
The 5 things it does are...
Correct any Disk problems.
Repair Permissions.
Clear out Cache Files.
Repair/check several plist files.
Dump the VM files for a fresh start.

Fail to import emails from Thunderbird to Mail app

hello !
I'm trying to switch from Thunderbird to Mail app, but Mail app is loosing abt 80% of my email while importing them from Thunderbird. I have a POP3 email account, set to delete copies from server and abt 15 GB of emails (with lots of folders) which I need to import from Thunderbird.
what I already tried:
- import option of Mail app
- created mbox files
- installed Eudora Mailbox Cleaner ( it doesn't work with Yosemite)
is there any solution ? thank you in advance !

no chance to solve it ?

HT201342 Currently I have 'on my mac' mail boxes (in MAIL) and I have folders and mail boxes in iCloud. How do I transport all the folders/mail boxes from 'on my mac' to iCloud?

Currently I have 'on my mac' mail boxes (in MAIL) and I have folders and mail boxes in iCloud. How do I transport all the folders/mail boxes from 'on my mac' to iCloud?

Are the mailboxes you are talking about belonging to other email accounts? You can't get iCloud to receive mail from other email accounts. However if you have 'On My Mac' mailboxes which contain emails you can move these (or their contents) to iCloud easily enough. For each mailbox:
1.Create a new mailbox with the same or a suitable name on iCloud.
2. Open the mailbox you want to move.
3. Hit command-a to select all the messages.
4. Click and drag on any of the messages to move it to the new mailbox in the sidebar.
5. If there are a lot of messages, take the dog for a walk because it's going to take quite a long time as they all have to be uploaded
If you have a very large number of messages don't try to do them all at once.

No problems with iPhoto 11,UNTIL I downloaded Lion. Now,I cannot e-mail from iPhoto. The "do not recognize user/password"message.I like to -mail directly from iPhoto,not Mail. Anyone having this problem? Thanks for the assistance

My iPhoto e-mail has been working great;UNTIL I upgraded to Lion. Now,I cannot e-mail directly from iPhoto. I prefer to e-mail photos from iPhoto,not Mail. I sure appreciate anyone's help. Thanks

1 - unless you tell us more then anything would be a wild guess - what happens? what error messages do you get?
and why would you use iPhoto rather than Mail anyway - mail has more templates, has a sent mail box, uses you address book lists and lets you control the message format so PC users can receive photos - and works for everyone
LN

HT2500 How do I copy multiple e-mail addresses from an e-mail to a new e-mail?

How do I copy multiple e-mail addresses from an e-mail to a new e-mail in the Mail program on MacBook Pro. Received an e-mail with multiple recipients, and need to send a new e-mail to the list.

Received an e-mail with multiple recipients, and need to send a new e-mail to the list.
You could select Reply All from the icons above the email.
If Reply All is not shown, go to Mail / View / Customize Toolbar, and add that icon.

Mailing photos from iphoto through mail

When I mail photos from iphoto through mail, it sends the picture at very low resolution regardless of the setting I choose (small, medium, large, actual). How can I send photos to others at viewing or even printing quality? Can I resize the pictures to my specifications as I used to be able to do on my PC? Through ACDSee I could resize to 50% which would be small enough to send quickly but still high enough quality for the recipients to view and even print. Thanks!

drjoan
After iPhoto has created a new Mail message have a look at the bottom right hand corner of the Mail Message window - there's another control there for sizing the pics... try play with that one to find the size you require.
You can access your photos for sending in Mail too. In the New Mail Message Window there's an icon on the toolbar that will show you your iPhoto library.
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TD

How can I delete and e-mail address from thunderbird?

I tried to download my e-mail address to thunderbird, but the spelling of the domain was wrong. I then added the e-mail account with a correctly spelled name. Now I have two e-mail accounts and it keeps trying to connect with the wrong one. I need to get it deleted from the account.

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I want to send notifications to outside(i,e mail box) from oracle, and users will approve the notification from email

Hi
I have a client required to send notifications to outside email box, and also user will approve this notification through email.(i,e not logged into oracle and approve it) in 11i instance.
i need to send mail from po department to finance department
once finance department approves , then mail back to po department that your notificaiton approved.
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to address:=[email protected]
as part of this we did IMAP set up
and used the following code. and getting the notifications from Oracle to my mail box.
my main issue is when user approves the wf notifications, it is not showing my specified email address in the attribute #WFM_REPLYTO, always it is showing the IMAP set up wfdev address
what is the value i need to use for this #WFM_REPLYTO
eventhough i am sending the to_address email id to the following attribute(wf_engine.setitemattrtext), the workflow approval not working for that email id.
only if i am using the '[email protected]' in the imap set up, then only approval is working.
how can i override this to_email address value([email protected]) to my desired email address?
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itemkey => l_item_key,
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avalue => '[email protected]' -- [email protected]
if any body having some sample code related to this please share on this.
Thanks
sam

Sam,
Can you find any errors in the Workflow log file?
Please review the following docs.
Setting Different Values For Attributes #WFM_FROM & #WFM_REPLYTO Does Not Happen Or Results In SAXParseException (Doc ID 1455191.1)
How To Change The Default From and Reply To Email Address For Workflow Email Notifications (Doc ID 760477.1)
Thanks,
Hussein

Questions about Changing from Thunderbird to Mail

Hi,
I recently switched over from Thunderbird from Mail. I'm liking the experience, however there are a few things I can't figure out how to replicate. If anyone could tell me how to do the following I'd appreciate it.
Thanks,
Hunter
How to label/tag/mark messages with colors
How to enlarge/change toolbar icons
How to add blank line before quoted message
Gmail address book lack of syncing (it stopped syncing a while back for me)

Welcome to the Discussions.
For starters, Go to Mail>Preferences..
Tab through general, accounts, viewing etc.
Here you should be able to play around for label/tag/mark with colors.
Another way to tag messages is to 'flag' them. Message>mark>flag
Also, check out view>customize tool bar...
Play around a bit and see what you find suitable and equivalent. Post back here for more info/tweaks once you are more familiar with the preferences.
Message was edited by: Meherally

Emptying mail boxes from Safari Mail

I keep getting message/s that I am nearly full regarding emails in my mail boxes. I continually clear these boxes from all my accounts so I do not know how to clear whatever messages are still there. Can you advise me how to fix this situation?

Try a reset: Simultaneously hold down the Home and On buttons until the device shuts down. Ignore the off slider if it appears. Once shut down is complete, if it doesn't restart on it own, turn the device back on using the On button. In some cases it also helps to double click the Home button and close all apps from the tray before doing the reset.

How can I import address book from thunderbird on another computer

I just purchased a new laptop and have dowloaded Thunderbird for my e-mail as that was what I was using on desktop. I have 2 e-mail accounts, my personal e-mail addresses came thru with no difficulty however my other account the contacts in address book didn't come thru. So question is how can I get address book imported for this account too. My desktop is Windows XP and my laptop is Windows 8
thanks for any help

The neat thing to do would be to copy the profile from the XP machine to the W8 machine. This would have transferred your messages, your account settings and your Address Book and much else.
Given that you have set up Thunderbird and have started using it, copying over the profile may not now be terribly attractive for you.
So, instead, you can export and import your Address Books.
On the XP computer, open the Address Book, select an address book (e.g. Personal Address Book), select '''Tools|Export''', select the name and location of a file to contain the exported data, choose LDIF and then Save. Repeat for each required address book. Give your LDIF files simple but meaningful names, such as PAB.ldif and CA.ldif. Don't use, for instance, ''Personal Address Book.ldif'', as this will create a second address book with the same name as one of the defaults and you won't be able to easily tell which is which.
Put the exported LDIF files where the W8 computer can see them, e.g. a USB memory stick.
On the W8 machine, open the address book, Tools|Import and select an exported LDIF file. It will import and create a new address book; you'll probably want to move the Contact data back to the usual address book. You can select all (ctrl+a) then drag-and-drop the imported Contacts to the preferred address book. Repeat for each LDIF file.
Having said that, I don't understand what you mean by "my personal e-mail addresses came thru with no difficulty however my other account the contacts in address book didn't come thru"; unless you have moved the profile folder over, I don't understand why ''any'' contacts should have transferred.
If you have in fact moved the profile folder, then I'm puzzled as to why the transfer of address books has been incomplete. However the export and import route should be able to reclaim the missing address book(s).

Mail "To Do" hangs / crashes Mail since 10.5.2 update

Since I updated to 10.5.2, I'm having some Mail issues, primarily with the "To Do" function. If I so much as click on a To Do, I get the spinning beach ball and ultimately have to force quit Mail.
I have an Exchange Email account and .Mac account. Under "To Dos", there are two categories showing "On My Mac" and "Mac". The Exchange account does not show up under To Dos.
Doing anything with any To Dos in either On My Mac or Mac, hangs mail and I have to force quit.
I use the To Dos a lot for work, primarily to track phone calls. I'm open to anything to fix this. I would even delete all the To Dos, reset it and start from scratch, but can't figure out how to do so, given that any interaction with any To Dos, simply crashes Mail.
Help??

Yea the same thing happens to me. Anything to do with "To-Do" results it in the beach ball of doom...
I don't know if its just me but there's no way to contact Apple about this or any problem via email... I've looked all over the support page and there's no support email about OSX just .Mac and iTunes..
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Import mail boxes from Thunderbird crashes mail!

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