Imported once into mail, can't do it again...

I recently used o2m (http://www.littlemachines.com/) to export all of my Outlook mailboxes from a pc to .mbox files. I turned to this software after having afew problems exporting other files. They all imported just fine into mail. I went back and grabbed a few more, and now when I import, everything seems to go OK, but after it is done, the program says that the files are "in the folder named 'Import-2' in the mailboxes list" but the folder is not there. anyone else seen this?

RTF with Tiger Mail is HTML but you must select RTF for message composition and then select a font via the Font panel when composing a message.
If you are referring to an HTML composer/editor to insert HTML code with embedded images and/or objects, you can do so with an HTML composer of choice (Text Edit can be used for this). Save the completed document and open the saved document with Safari. After confirming the layout and rendering is OK, at the menu bar go to File and select Mail Contents of This Page. This can be done with any website page selected and the rendered HTML document will be copied to a new Mail.app message which will be sent in its entirety.
Sounds cumbersome but if sending a complex HTML composed message is not something you need to do on a regular basis, it isn't so bad and you can create an HTML template for the Mail.app to be reused when needed.

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Restore the mailboxes to a different location, such as the Desktop, and import them into Mail (File > Import Mailboxes...) I haven't tried this myself and I don't know for sure that it will work.

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.

Why I can't I import mbx into Mail?

I am trying to transfer a colleague's e-mails from her old PC (running Windows Mail under Vista) to Apple Mail 6.6 on her MacBook Pro (running OS8.5).
There are a lot of nested folders of email within her existing mail programme.
Using a free utility, I have successfully exported all the emails on the PC, and converted the .eml files to .mbx files, maintaining the file structure, and copied them to the Mac. It should now be simple enough to import the mbx files into Apple Mail.
The import works after a fashion, but it adds an extra level of folders within the file structure, putting each e-mail in its own sub folder within Mail.
E.g. Instead of seeing IMPORT/INBOX/AnEmail
I see IMPORT/INBOX/773p6CA1-00---1/AnEmail
This makes it impossible to search the imported emails, so they become pretty useless.
I also tried converting the emails to emlx, and then using the 'Import from Apple Mail' option, but the same thing happens.
HOW CAN I STOP THIS HAPPENING? (It's driving me a bit mad.)
thanks!

Iphone does not save to the SIM card.
If you have another SIM card that has contacts on it, then use the direction in the manual under settings to import them into the iphone:
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Hi,
I thought I had backed up my mail when I was upgrading to a new computer.
I did this by copying the files from Username/Library/Mail/V2/
When I try to import the mbox files by either using the "Import Mailboxes" from Apple Mail or Files in mbox format it gives me the error message "No valid mbox files were found."
I can see all of the folders, emails and attachments in the mbox files when I browse them in the Finder so I know the files are there but I can't seem to get these mbox files to import into Mail.
Does anyone know what's going on with my mbox files or if I didn't grab the right files?
I'd really like to get these emails back into Mail.
Thanks.
Demetre

In case someone also has this problem, I seemed to have figured it out.
I had my backed up files in a folder on the desktop.
If you try importing by selecting the mbox directly it says it is not a valid mbox file.
But, if you choose the Desktop it ended up working without any problems and recognizing the mbox files.

Import trouble into Mail and Entourage

Hi All,
Just swtiched to Mac from a PC and I am trying hard to get my Outlook files from my PC imported into Entourage. I've been using the system where your first import the Outlook files into Netscape 7.2, transfer the folder to the Mac, and then important into Mail (eventually into Entourage).
Here's the issue: When I do the import into Mail from the Netscape export, only ONE e-mail shows up in each of my imported folders (some should have thousands of messages). I've tried several times and I can't figure out what is wrong...nor can I seem to find any evidence of anyone else having this problem.
I checked the Netscape export files and they are very large on my big e-mail folders, so I know the data is there.
Please help...I will be very grateful for any assistance!
Warmly,
Dave Stachowiak

Hi Dave.
I don’t know whether it would matter, but I’d use Thunderbird instead of Netscape as the intermediate mail client.
Also (and this does matter), you’d get better results using Eudora Mailbox Cleaner to do the conversion.
Eudora Mailbox Cleaner requires rebuilding the imported mailboxes in Mail afterwards, but instead of rebuilding them one by one, you can re-create the entire index as follows:
1. Quit Mail if it’s running.
2. In the Finder, go to ~/Library/Mail/. Make a backup copy of this folder, just in case something goes wrong, e.g. by dragging it to the Desktop while holding the Option (Alt) key down. This is where all your mail is locally stored.
3. Locate Envelope Index and move it to the Trash. If you see any other “Envelope Index”-named file there, delete it as well.
4. Open Mail. It will tell you that your mail needs to be “imported”. Click Continue and Mail will proceed to re-create Envelope Index — Mail says it’s “importing”, but it just re-creates the index if the mailboxes are already in Mail 2.x format.
Note: For those not familiarized with the ~/ notation, it refers to the user’s home folder. That is, ~/Library is the Library folder within the user’s home folder, i.e. /Users/username/Library.

Importing mailboxes into Mail from Entourage only partially works.

I am trying to import all my Entourage mailboxes into Mail.
[The background of this is that I want to upgrade to Lion, but my version of Office won't work in Lion and I don't want to pay for a new version, so I'm going to abandon Entourage and use Mail].
The process appears to work properly; there is no error message and Mail tells me that the mailboxes have been imported into a folder called Import.
However when I look at the Mail mailbozes, all teh messages are not there. The import has worked up to a point and then just stopped. By this I mean all the actual mailboxes (and sub mailboxes) are in place, tbut only the first 50% or so of the messages are there. (Admitedly, there are a large number of mesages in my mailboxes and the import has worked through them logically by alpahbetical order of mailboxes.)
I've also tried dragging the missing message across manually, but this doesn't work.
Any ideas?

Well there are some suggested solutions on here if you search for them. Hoever, I eventually worked around it by just importing a section of my old email at a time. A bit tedious, but it worked.

How do I import mailboxes into Mail v.3.5 from v.2.1.3?

Every time I try to import even a single mailbox from my PowerBook G4 (OS X 10.4) into my iMac (OS X 10.5) using the 'mbox files' setting the new version of Mail seizes up. I'm following the onscreen instructions for mbox and accessing the mailbox files in the G4 using file sharing, but when I choose either an mbox file or even an individual message the wheel starts turning "Searching for data" on and on, and clicking on the Mail icon in the dock shows that the application is "not responding".
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Hello and welcome to the Discussions.
Importing a xxxx.mbox folder is a two step process. First you navigate only as far as an ordinary folder, and then click Choose. Then a list of available xxxx.mbox folder within that ordinary folder (which can be the original Mailboxes folder or copy) will be made available, and then you select and click the now offered Import button. When you import it, it will now be an On My Mac maibox, and then you will Move all the messages to your online Inbox.
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I am using Flash CS3. I am importing a Quicktime video into
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Here's the problem, though. I need this video to be
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Mark,
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I have a 3rd party "TPLink ADSL wireless" router controlling DHCP , Now require Airport Basestation and Timecapule to merely join the existing network. I know this was a work around once posted, but can't find it again? Help....

I have a 3rd party "TPLink ADSL wireless" router controlling Internet and DHCP , Now require my (Airport Basestation and Timecapule) to merely join the existing network. I know this can be done but it was a bit of a work around the automatic setup. The autmatic setup only offers (Create new/WDS/Extend) Does anyone know how to do it, or can point me to the post.
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My frustration with myself is I had it setup, but failed to record for future, the trick in how to unhide the "join network option". I then had a failed firmware update from Apple and then needed to reset the routers and bang the settings were gone.
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How do I import an .eml file into Mail

I have a .eml file, which was orginally an email message in Mail, which I saved onto my desktop, "saved as" a raw message source out of Mail a while ago. Now I want to import it back into my Mail program but it won't accept it. Does anyone know how I can get the file back into Mail?
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If it's saved as Raw Source, it's not a .eml file anymore. Unless Apple changed them again in 10.5.x, Mail saves messages as .emlx files.
So, you can download this tool, emlx to mbox Converter to convert individual messages or whole groups to mbox files and import those into Mail (you need to choose Other when the dialog window asks "Import data from").
If the Mail file format really did change in 10.5.x to .eml, here's a similar tool to convert multiple eml files to mbox format: eml2mbox. This is a Ruby script, not an application.
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Importing .emlx files back into mail....please help

Hi, I am running the most current version of Tiger and Mail.
A few months ago, I accidentally deleted an account on mail.
This deleted all my emails from the inbox having to do with that account.
The other day, I bought File Salvage and salvaged a bunch of .emlx files that were old emails having to do with that account I deleted.
I would double click on one, and it would open just like a window in mail.
So I tried to drag and drop them into the fold were my other .emlx files were, hoping that when I relaunched mail, they would appear in the inbox I already have. But they never did. I am wondering if there is some way I can import them into mail again.
Any help would be appreciated greatly.
Thanks in advance,
Eddy

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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.
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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!

Imported once into mail, can't do it again...

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