Import RSS Messages into Mail

I've just clean installed my OS but in Apple Mail I had a few RSS Subscriptions with a number of messages in each. I've had a look Library > Mail > RSS folder and all of my feeds are still in there but they are in folders with a . rssmbox extension and I'm unable to import these into Mail.
Any ideas or help would be greatly appreciated.

Okay, couldn't figure out how to do this automatically so what I ended up doing was logging into my backup and opening Mail. Then dragging all of the RSS messages I wanted to keep in to a new Mailbox. Then logging out - opening up my newly created Mac and opening Mail. Then import the Mailbox and drag those messages into the RSS feed. A bit long-winded but hey, they're all there now... Phew!

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Is it possible to import messages into Mail that are in .csv format?

Just in case my previous topic subject was preventing some folks from checking this out, I'lll try to ask my question in a more generic way.
I have an archive of a mailbox from another email program that I'm trying to move over to Apple Mail. My archive is saved as a .csv file. I can open the file in either Numbers, Excel, or TextEdit, and I can see that all the info is there. However, I want to be able to import these into Mail so that I can integrate these old messages with my other emails. I would want to be able to search for these messages using Mail's search tools and be able to identify messages based on who they're from, the subject line, date received, etc.
Specifically, this archive was exported out of Earthlink Total Access. My only options out of Earthlink were to export out as either .csv or a proprietary .dat file. I'm trying to figure out how to get the .csv file into Mail. I tried going through Entourage, but Entourage only imports contacts from a .csv file and not messages. I found a Unix utility that coverts a .csv to an mbox file (which Entourage would be able to import), but I'm not sure how to get it to work (I'm not that swift with Unix).
http://membled.com/work/apps/outlooktext_tombox/
Any brilliant ideas?

I too am trying to transfer Total Access messages into Mail and have stumbled at every attempt to use other software, such as Entourage and OE, as intermediaries. I would love to hear if you get any response to this question. I was able to transfer all the addresses, but not the messages.

Import RSS feeds to Mail

Anyone know of a way to import OMPL rss feeds into Mail?
--Andrew

I have a manual way that will work. It will take a few steps but you can import in whole or in batches. If you have many feeds you may want to do in batches so as not to mix them up.
This will work with Vienna. It may just work with other readers too.
1) open Safari, and get to the bookmark manager (menu bar/bookmarks/show all bookmarks)
2) create a temp folder we can use to import the feeds. (*1)
3) open vienna & select a single feed or a range of feeds. (*2)
4) drag & drop the feeds in to the temp folder in safari you created in step 2.
5) open mail, got to (menu bar/file/add rss feed). Select the temp folder (*3)
6) click the all the check boxes and click add and your feeds have been imported. (*4)
If you had to do it manually this worked for me. Beats cut/paste links or manually typing. There is probably other ways to do it. Hope Apple patches this RSS feature soon. I dont want to wait for OSX 10.6 to see an improvement.
Notes:
*1 - Create a temp folder for each sub folder in your news reader. This will speed things up.
*2 - Unfortunately it does not drag and drop the folders you physically have to select the range of feeds. If your selection does include the folder (eg. your selection strattled 2 folders it will still process your selection. In other words it ignores the folder and drags your selection.
*3 - If you did create a temp folder for each folder group you had in your RSS feeder this is a step you would repeat at selecting the various temp folders. But read not 4 before you do.
*4 - Yes you have to individually click each box. Another grip is that even though you highlighted a folder in Mail it will import the feeds to the RSS main folder. This means you have to select & drag/drop into the sub-folder.

How can I receive RSS feeds into MAIL?

How can I receive RSS feeds into MAIL? I was able to do that using LION; now using Maverick.

RSS support was removed from Mail and Safari. You'll have to use a third-party app.
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How do you import RSS feeds into FF? (i have exported OPML file out of IE8 but can't find import option for feeds in FF)

how do you import RSS feeds into FF? i have exported opml file out of IE8 but can't find how to import this into FF?

See OPML Support: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/2625

Importing Mail Messages into Mail

i have copied mail from an older computer across to my current macbook.
I can read the emix files,,, they are in a folder called Library/Mail/Mailboxes/xxx.Mbox/messages (copied across from the older computer)
I Can't import these into my mail ???
I thought this would be a easy thing but i tried for days with no luck,,,,
They are there ,, i can open them and read them as individual emails with filenames such as 950.emix But how do i get them into my Mail App ???
Thanks
Glyn

Glyn,
You can import a mailbox, or groups of mailboxes, and this can include a mailbox of the standard type, such as the Inbox from an account, BUT not as the new Inbox, but only as another On My Mac mailbox. However, once imported its messages can be transferred as desired, to the account Inbox (and Sent) now on the new computer.
Import as type OSX, and import from each account folder, and the Mailboxes folder separately.
Ernie

Can't import mbox file into Mail anymore

Hi all, I am getting nowhere with this issue...I have archived my Apple Mail inbox and then turned around and imported it into Apple Mail (so as to have it on the local computer, not the network) many times in the past. It no longer works. I got to File>Import Mailboxes. I get the window "Import data from:" and my choices for file formats are "Apple Mail, Microsoft Entourage, Netscape/Mozilla, Thunderbird, Eudora, Files in mbox format." I first chose "Files in mbox format" as I have in the past. I hit "Continue." I go to the folder where I keep my archived mail. I click the containing file for my most recent export, "Inbox 5.mbox." This opens a new window listing "Items to import" that I may check off. Every item on this list is an old mbox folder. My new export folder doesn't show up. If I go back, open the containing file I mentioned above, "Inbox 5.mbox" and click the actual mbox file, I get the message, "no valid mbox files were found."
I've found other threads referring to this and some say the solution is to pick the "Mail from Mac OSX" data type from the import list, the problem is, this is not an option for me!
If anyone can help I would appreciate it, this is really frustrating...

We have users who have been importing collections of old pine and alpine messages who are having problems since switching to SL.
I discovered that alpine has been saving to MBX format, so users ende dup with collections of mixed mbox and MBX files. The "file" command can tell you which file is which format. There is an old program called "mailutil" that can be used to convert MBX to mbox (available in linux "uw-imap" packages). It is also in MacPorts imap-uw, but the latter is not maintained and appears aimed at older versions of MacOSX. There is also a FileImport plugin for Euroda_OSE that seems to handle more of the .mbox files than Apple Mail does, but still has problems with .mbox files from pine for the period 2002--2005. The file command indicates the problem files have long lines. I tried splitting one of the files
using mh inc, but it had 1000's of messages and a large fraction have the long lines problem.
Can you read the archived messages using "mail -f <filename>"? What does "file" say?

Creating or importing a table into Mail

I have searched and found a few threads with this same question. The problem is, there is no answer in any of the threads!
Can someone help me figure out how to either create or import a table into a Mail message?
Thanks for any advice provided.

I don't think you can create a table directly in Mail. Mail html capabilities are fairly pathetic. The only way I know how to do it is to create an html file using some html editor, put your table there. then open that file in Safari copy the table there and paste it into a message composition window.
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Problems importing Thunderbird Mailbox into Mail

I am having problems importing my Thunderbird mailboxes into Mail. I won't go into the many problems and issues I had to solve (but there were many) but would ask if anyone can help me solve the one I still have.
In Mail I used the Import Mailboxes command, located the Thunderbird profile in my Home directory and imported it. I may have done this some time ago, but in any case, when I decided to start using Mail as my main email client this week I only had emails up until 6th November 2008.
Now I find it impossible to import the rest of my Thunderbird Inbox - only the sub-folders show up and Mail does not let me import the emails in the main inbox.
How can I get the remaining emails?

Quit Mail. Force quit if necessary.
Back up all data. That means you know you can restore the Mail database, no matter what happens.
Triple-click anywhere in the line below on this page to select it:
~/Library/Mail/V2/MailData
Copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. In the Finder, select
Go ▹ Go to Folder
from the menu bar. Paste into the box that opens by pressing command-V, then press return.
A folder window will open. Inside it there should be files with names as follows:
Envelope Index
ExternalUpdates.storedata
Move those files to the Desktop, leaving the window open. Other files in the folder may have longer names that begin as above. Move those files, if any, to the Trash.
Relaunch Mail. It should prompt you to re-import your messages. You may get a warning that the index is damaged and that Mail has to quit. Click OK. Typically, the process takes a few minutes, but it may take hours if you have gigantic mailboxes. In that case, you may be able to speed things up by temporarily adding your home folder to the Privacy list in the Spotlight preference pane. Remove it when Mail has finished importing.
Test. If Mail now works as expected, you can delete the files you moved to the Desktop. Otherwise, post your results.

Import entourage files into mail

I just upgraded without I guess reading the fine print. I used Entourage for my e-mails and can't open it anymore with OS X Lion. How can I import my thousands of mails and archived stuff into Apple Mail?

I haven't been able to get a 100% successful import from mail.app (2.0) into Entourage 2004 (latest update). For example, if I import a mail 2.0 account with 2000+ messages (sorted in various folders and subfolders) into entourage 2004, random messages aren't imported, missing attachments, etc.
Also, I've never come across anyone saying this CAN work because Entourage 2004 doesn't understand the new .elmx format.
But, using this tool...
http://www.cosmicsoft.net/emlxconvert.html
...and following these instructions...
http://www.macworld.com/weblogs/mac911/2005/11/archiveemlx/index.php
...I've been able to successfully import mail 2.0 accounts/message/mailboxes into Entourage 2004 (though, takes a little manual grunt work, but works none the less).
Regards,
Kristin.

Re-import IMAP messages to Mail

I am trying to get messages from a local backup of my imap-account to show up in Mail and to get uploaded to the mail server.
When I copy the emlx-files to the mailbox folder, the messages do not show up in Mail.
I also tried setting up a dummy account and copy the emlx-files to this account's folder – same result.
Mail's import command does not recognise the emlx-files as Mail files.
How do I get my backed up messages back into Mail?
Kind regards.

Have you seen this...
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mail/2.0/en/ml1136.html

Importing eml files into Mail

Hi,
I have thousands of emails that I need to import into Mail (v 2.0.7) for archival purposes. We want to start using Mail as the default e-mail client and all of our current e-mail messages are in "eml" format which can be read by Entrouage. We need to have access to these old e-mails for refrence, etc.
I have tried going through the Mail import option with no luck. It appears to only want to import mbox files. I understand that Mail uses mbox files which-in turn-contain emlx files. This is so spotlight can search them.
So my question is how do I convert the eml files to emlx files?
And once they are emlx files how do I get them into Mail?
Thanks!
Dual 2.7 G5 Mac OS X (10.4.2)

I go under file/import mailboxes.
Then I am given the options of:
Microsoft Entourage
Outlook Express
Claris Emailer
Netscape/Mozilla
Eudora
Mail for Mac OS X
Other
I select "other" and then click continue. I then navigate to the desktop and find the folder that has the .eml files in it, and click "choose."
I then get a dialog box saying "Error, No valid mbox files were found." I click "OK" and am left with a dialog with a blank list of items to import. This is where I am stuck.
Now I've downloaded "emlx to mbox converter" but the files I have are .eml not .emlx
I have searched the web in vain for how to convert .eml to .emlx. Simply changing the suffix on a file does not do it. I've tried that and then used the emlx to mbox converter and ran it through the Mail import process—no go.
So where I am now is a folder full of .eml files that I need to convert to .emlx files. Once I have those I can run the emlx to mbox converter.
Thanks for any guidance you can give.

Can't import from Eudora into Mail

I'm trying to import mailboxes from Eudora into Mail. Unfortunately, Mail crashes right in the middle of the process. Has anyone had this problem? If it can't be solved, is there a way to do this manually? Finally, if all else fails, what do you consider to be a good email program other than Mail? I'd like to upgrade to Snow Leopard and

Last I knew, Eudora ran fine under 10.5.8
Could be many things, we should start with this...
"Try Disk Utility
1. Insert the Mac OS X Install disc, 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 at the top of the screen. (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. Select your Mac OS X volume.
5. Click Repair. Disk Utility checks and repairs the disk."
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214
Then try a 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 completes.
(Safe boot may stay on the gray radian for a long time, let it go, it's trying to repair the Hard Drive.)

Import emlx files into Mail

Hello,
I just upgraded to Yosemite - and also recently had a trojan that gave me lots of pop-ups - don't know which of these things was the cause,
but this weekend my Mail had problems connecting to my e-mail provider - one.com. I talked to their chat support - and they said I used the wrong settings,
so following their instructions I switched from pop3 to IMAP. Then my email worked again.
But it also deleted my entire e-mail history since 2008! With thousands of important work mails!
plus I haven't run Time Machine in like two years (yes I know...) . So it's been a pretty ****** day.
Anyway i bought a software uFlysoft Data Recovery that have found lots of these deleted e-mails.
It also recovered them and put them into 10 different folders with 5000 emails each.
So there seems to be hope.
But now I can't import these emlx files into mail again. Tried creating a mbox folder under Library/Mail - pasting and importing back. But no success there.
I guess because the files aren't structured in way that Mail can read? If anyone could help me with this that would be absolutely fantastic.
Thanks,
George

Welcome to Apple Discussions!
Try:
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/18875/emlx-to-mbox-converter

RSS feeds into mail

Have just upgraded to Mountain Lion, there seem to be some backward steps:
used to be able to view RSS feeds in Mail - not possible now
in Safari used to be able to have 2nd search file in toolbar - not possible now either.
Progress???

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