Mail in Panther 10.3

Why do the same message appear more than once on occasion in the out box?.

Hi Nicholas,
I don't think it's that easy fro 10.3.x to 10.4.x.
iirc, Mail 1.3 used a whole different format... no .emlx files, where Mail 2.1.3 uses them.
You can Import Mail though, the locations on both are...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Mail/Mailboxes
With Mail 2 running, goto the File menu>Import, select the location on the Mail 1 computer if networked, or to a copy of that folder you copied to say a flash drive.

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How to import old mails form Panther mail version to Tiger mail version

Hello!
I just updated my iBook G4 from Panther to Tiger and learned, that there is no easy way to import my old mails from Panther mail version to the new Tiger mail version.
Tiger runs on a different partition than the Panther system, so all the old "things" are still there because they were not overwritten with the update.
I read about the work around with the "emlx convert" program - but I couldn't find the emlx-files in my .../library/mail folder! *There don't seem to be any emlx-files on my system!*
Does anyone know what I could be doing wrong here?
Cheers & thanks for your help :-))
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If your mail is still there, it has to be inside your individual mailboxes in ~/Library/Mail/[name of mailbox folder]; otherwise you could not see it or read it when you open Mail on 10.3. Each mailbox is named like this (example only): [email protected], and inside that folder are individual folders for your Inbox, Sent, Drafts, Deleted messages, etc., and inside those folders are your messages for each mailbox associated with that email account. Look inside those folders to find out if any messages are there; they should be.
On your 10.3 partition, Copy your ~/Library/Mail folder to the Desktop of your 10.4 partition so you're working from a copy in 10.4 when you try to export and import mail to 10.4 Mail. It's also easier to look inside your account folders instead of going back and forth between different OS X partitions.
As for downloading and installing Eudora to try exporting from Mail 10.3 and Importing into Mail 10.4, .hqx files are an older compression format used for files on the old Mac OS system, so you can download The Unarchiver to decompress the Eudora .hqx file.
Mulder

Another import Mail problem (Panther to Tiger)

OK, I have 15 email accounts in my Mail, that worked fine, albeit slowly, in Panther (10.3.9).
I just imported everything to a new macbook (10.4.8), and now some of the email accounts are not functioning properly. I get the misleading error message: The message from XXX <[email protected]> concerning “RE: YYY” has not been downloaded from the server. You need to take this account online in order to download it."
I have not taken the new macbook's mail account online.
I have read through dozens of posts here over the past few days, and am disappointed Apple hasn't fixed the import problem from over a year ago.
Anyway, I got both the "old" Panther Mail working, and new Macbook Tiger Mail not working, so willing to "experiement" if anyone wants me to. I have seen various theories on what works and what doesn't. Some of my mailboxes are large, so I suspect that's part of the problem. In addition they were previously imported from Jaguar, and probably from original OSX 10.1, so probably contain some of the vestigial files. I suspect I need to do the fixes/cleanup in 10.3.9, then re-import them...
I also don't rebuild mailboxes because once I did it I lost all my mail (or appeared to), but I was able to recover from backup. I suspect the mbox file was probably still there, so mail was recoverable, but that experience was not one that instilled confidence in me. I'm willing do rebuild this time...
Some info on the 15 accounts I tried to transfer:
1. dan@dc OK, 5271 messages, 152 MB
2. info@pics OK, 54 messages, 315 kB
3. trav IMAP, empty, (probably due to not going online after xfer)
4. web@al OK 3 messages, 2.9 kB
5. web@kais OK, 147 messages, 802 kB
6. class * BAD * 238 messages, 854 kB (160 msg xferred)
7. web@khs OK, 1248 messages, 27.8 MB
8. dan@aa * BAD * 10419 messages, 607 MB (638 msg xferred,)
9. cabin OK, 10245 messages, 39.6 MB
10. news OK, 2712 messages, 4.2 MB
11. web@aa OK, 97 messages, 1011 kB
12. dan1 OK, 2945 messages, 11.7 MB
13. info@dc * BAD * 2023 messages, 50.6 MB (22 msg xferred)
14. dc@dc OK, 895 messages, 14.4 MB
15. info@aa OK, 2484 messages, 39.7 MB
The accounts I use most often are 1, 8, 13, 14, 15.
Frankly, I'm surprised account 6 went bad, due to small size, and last saved received email over a year old. No recent mail received.
All SENT Mailboxes appear to be fine.
I have several archive mailboxes, and they all seem fine, too.
I will do (in Tiger) the standard POP procedure posted multiple times by David Gimeno, unless someone thinks I should be doing the cleanup in Panther first...then re-import, or wants me to be a Guinea Pig and run some "tests"
Another minor thing: Mail in Panther shows how large the file is and the number of messages (below toolbar), while Tiger only shows number of messages (and unread). Any easy way to enable showing how large the mailbox is? I think it should be displayed, especially if Mail chokes on large files.
Also, is there a better, easier to use, less clunky Mail alternative that can handle multiple accounts? Entourage? Eudora? T-bird?
Aloha,
Dan

The real issue here is that the conversion from Mail 1.x to Mail 2.x is broken and it may fail miserably even for mailboxes that Mail 1.x could handle without a hitch. Hence, trying to “fix” any problems you might have in Mail 1.x by upgrading to Mac OS X 10.4 is guaranteed to fail and can only make things worse.
At this point, whether you go back to Mac OS X 10.3 and tidy up your mailboxes there (if that’s still an option), or want to try to fix the problem in place using the procedure I’ll post below again for reference, is up to you. Do what you find easier or more convenient. Whatever you do, be sure you keep a backup of the original ~/Library/Mail folder, so that you can try something else if things don’t work as expected.
And yes, in their infinite wisdom, the powers that be at Apple also decided to remove the status bar from Mail 2.x, and there is currently no way to know the size of a locally stored mailbox in Mail 2.x other than by switching to the Finder and checking the size of the Messages folder within the corresponding *.mbox folder in ~/Library/Mail/.
Before proceeding any further, however, you should verify/repair the disk (not just permissions), as described in the following article, in case there is something amiss in the filesystem that also has a bearing on the problems you’ve experienced:
The Repair functions of Disk Utility: what's it all about?
For a POP account, the following procedure should allow you to fix the Inbox problem. A similar procedure should allow you to fix other mailboxes that might also be affected:
1. Quit Mail if it’s running.
2. Make a backup copy of the ~/Library/Mail folder, just in case something goes wrong while trying to fix the problem. You can do this in the Finder by dragging the folder to the Desktop while holding the Option (Alt) key down, for example. This is where all your mail is stored.
3. Create a new folder on the Desktop and name it however you wish (e.g. Inbox Old). It doesn’t need to have an .mbox extension.
4. In the Finder, go to ~/Library/Mail/POP-username@mailserver/INBOX.mbox/.
5. Move the files mbox and Incoming_Mail out of INBOX.mbox, into the Inbox Old folder just created on the Desktop. These files contain all the messages that were in the mailbox before the upgrade to Tiger, and maybe even some messages that had been deleted. mbox is the most important. Incoming_Mail may or may not be present.
6. Move any strangely-named Messages-T0x... folders to the Desktop (not into the Inbox Old folder). These folders are to be deleted after fixing the problem. They are temporary folders created during an import or an indexing process, and Mail should have deleted them when done. Their presence is a clear indication that something didn’t work as expected. If you’ve been using Mail after the conversion and have already tried to fix the problem by rebuilding the mailbox or something like that, they might contain messages that are neither in Messages proper nor in the mbox file, so keep them around until the problem is fixed.
7. Move everything else within INBOX.mbox, except the Messages folder, to the Trash.
The result of the above should be that INBOX.mbox contains the proper Messages folder only, and the Inbox Old folder on the Desktop contains the mbox and Incoming_Mail (if it exists) files only. Now, proceed as follows:
8. Open Mail.
9. The account’s Inbox should properly display in Mail as many messages as *.emlx files are in ~/Library/Mail/POP-username@mailserver/INBOX.mbox/Messages/. If that’s not the case, select the mailbox in Mail and do Mailbox > Rebuild.
10. In Mail, do File > Import Mailboxes, choose Other as the data format, and follow the instructions to import the Inbox Old folder that’s on the Desktop.
As a result of doing the above, some messages may be duplicated now. Andreas Amann’s Mail Scripts has a Remove Duplicates script that you may find useful.
Do with the imported mail whatever you wish. You may move the messages anywhere you want and get rid of the imported mailboxes afterwards.
If all is well and you don’t miss anything, the files on the Desktop can be deleted, although you may want to keep them for a while, just in case.
Take a look at the following article to learn what you might have done before upgrading to minimize the risk of this happening, and what you may do after fixing the problem to avoid similar issues from happening in the future. DON’T do now what the article suggests, though, as that would make things worse in the current situation:
Overstuffed mailbox is unexpectedly empty
Ask for any clarifications or if you need further assistance.
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 mail from Panther to Tiger

I'm doing a standard upgrade from 10.3.9 to 10.4.3. All has gone smoothly. Opened Mail for the first time under Tiger. It immediately started importing my messages from Panther Mail. But it's been running for 6 hours so far.
This is on a G3 Powerbook. I'm guessing I have 50,000 - 100,000 emails in Mail, spread amongst perhaps 150 mailboxes. Could the upgrade process simply be taking a great deal of time, or is there some other problem?
The "busy" bar continues to swirl in the application. It doesn't appear to have died.
Thanks.
Powerbook Mac OS X (10.4.3)

The same thing is happening to me after going from Panther to 10.4.4.
Did you ever figure out what was going on or how to fix it?

Import mail..Panther to Tiger

The two computers are connected by ethernet/router.
I use file>import,on the Tiger Mac, then navigate to the library>Mail folder on the Panther Mac.
In that folder, I choose the account(pop) folder.
I am presented with "items to import".
INBOX.mbox etc.
It imports to a folder in the Tiger Mail window labeled Import.
But I only get a fraction of the 1600 messages in the inbox.
Is there a way to get these Panther mailboxes?
It is unbelievable that Apple didn't provide for this.
Thanks
Dual 2.3/G5 23" Display Mac OS X (10.4.8) 4.5 G RAM, MBP 15" 2 G RAM, Canon 400D

You’re welcome.
It did, infact import the messages into the Mail folder, showing
as icons but they didn't show in the app and were useless.
Still not sure what you mean. Are you saying that importing does create the *.emlx files in the corresponding ~/Library/Mail/Mailboxes/ folder, but that they don’t show up in Mail at all? Or do you mean something else?
I did see that thread from your link when I did a search.
I will look at it again
If you’ve undone the conversion in-place, that thread isn’t useful to solve your problem anymore other than for understanding what the issue is here.
I did rebuild the mailboxes before trying any of this.
This merely reduces the risk of the problem happening. The real problem is that the conversion from Mail 1.x to Mail 2.x mailboxes is broken.

Importing Tiger Mail to Panther Mail

Hi,
My drive with 10.4 (Tiger) is having problems booting and am using a backup drive which has 10.3 (Panther) on it. I am trying to import my mail box from the 10.4 disk to the 10.3 disk but it doesn't see any of my mail from my original hard drive. Does Mail 2 do something different with the mailboxes? Any one have any suggestions? Thanks.
Jack

Hello Jack.
Tiger Mail uses a difference mbox format than used with previous Mail.app versions.
Each message contained in a Tiger mailbox is stored as a separate file in .emix format which is an Apple proprietary format designed primarily for Spotlight search capabilities but also reduces if not eliminates the "overstuffed" mailbox issue experienced with the mbox format used with previous Mail.app versions.
The Tiger mbox format is not backwards compatible to previous Mail.app versions without a workaround.
Check this link for an emix to mbox converter.
http://www.cosmicsoft.net/emlxconvert.html

Lost mail in Panther- Tiger migration

I just upgraded from 10.3.9 to 10.4.2, and have lost the body of many mail messages. They display the famous alert "The message XXX... has not been downloaded from the server. You need to take this account online in order to download it." This problem has been posted before but the problem in previous posts seems to have been due to too-large mailboxes, and the solution by Allan Sampson, which helped other posters, apparently isn't available to me.
My entire Home/Library/Mail folder is only 255 MB, nowhere near the 1GB limit, so it doesn't seem to be a problem with overstuffing.
Allan's suggestion to move the bad mbox (in my case, both the INBOX.mbox and Sent Messages.mbox) files out of the account folder and investigate them doesn't work. They copy to the desktop as FOLDERS, not files, and don't have an "Open Package Contents" contextual menu option.
I have 6 accounts, only one of which appears to have been affected by this, and in that account, it is the Inbox and Sent mailboxes which appear to be gone.
Any suggestions? Any additional info would be helpful? Thanks in advance!
--Peter

Hello Peter.
My entire Home/Library/Mail folder is only 255 MB,
nowhere near the 1GB limit, so it doesn't seem to be a
problem with overstuffing.
The 1GB limit is for an individual Jaguar/Panther mailbox (not for the entire size of the Mail folder) and an "overstuffed" mailbox issue can occur at any mailbox size depending on the number and size of message attachments contained in the mailbox and is more likely to occur as a mailbox approaches or exceeds 1GB in size for a Jaguar/Panther mailbox and 2GB in size for a Tiger mailbox.
They copy to the desktop as FOLDERS, not files, and
don't have an "Open Package Contents" contextual menu option.
The open package contents for Jaguar/Panther Mail.app xxxxxx.mbox files doesn't apply to Tiger mailboxes. Tiger Mail uses a different mailbox filing structure than previous Mail.app versions.
Within the INBOX.mbox and Sent Messages.mbox folders moved to the Desktop, there are some package files left over from the conversion process not required by Tiger Mail but are not deleted after the conversion process is completed. The mbox package file (which stored all messages and message attachments for the mailbox in the previous Mail.app version) is transferred within the Messages folder and each message contained in a Tiger mailbox is stored as a separate file in .emix format and the converted messages are located within the Messages folder.
The Info.plist file and the Messages folder are the only items required within a Tiger mailbox folder. All other items can be deleted.
Before deleting all other files/folders except for the Info.plist file and the Messages folder, copy the targeted Tiger mailbox folder and place the copy in another location of your choosing such as your Documents folder for backup purposes.
After deleting all other files/folders except for the Info.plist file and the Messages folder within the original mailbox folder, with the Mail.app quit and using the Finder go to Home > Library > Mail > Mailboxes. Move the targeted mailbox folder from the Desktop to the first level within the Mailboxes folder.
Launch Mail and the transferred mailbox will be available in the mailboxes drawer below Trash or Junk (if you have Junk Mail set to automatic) in the mailboxes drawer.
Select the mailbox in the drawer and at the menu bar, go to Mailbox and select Rebuild.

Synchronise Mail in Tiger 10.4.11 with Mail in Panther 10.3.9

I have
Mail 2.1.3 (753.1) on a G5 iMac with OS 10.4.11
Mail 1.3.11 on a G3 Powerbook with 10.3.9
I will travel with the G3. When I get back will it be possible to transfer all the mail I have sent and received from and on the G3 to the relevant Inbox, Sent Box and other mailboxes on the G5 to bring it up to date. Is it "just" a question of transferring each mailbox with its contents, one by one, from the G3 to the G5, or is there some cleverer way of doing it. Where are the mailboxes kept in Mail and does each have its own name? A complicating factor may be that I don't have the same mailboxes on the G3 and the G5.
Many thanks in advance.
Nick
PS I would like to do the same with iCal...

Hi Nicholas,
I don't think it's that easy fro 10.3.x to 10.4.x.
iirc, Mail 1.3 used a whole different format... no .emlx files, where Mail 2.1.3 uses them.
You can Import Mail though, the locations on both are...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Mail/Mailboxes
With Mail 2 running, goto the File menu>Import, select the location on the Mail 1 computer if networked, or to a copy of that folder you copied to say a flash drive.

Mail Crashes-Tiger & Panther-must I resort to Entourage (Microsoft-Blah)?!?

I have been a Mac user for 6 years now. In my home we have 3 G4's (eMac, PowerBook & Power Mac) and a G5 on the way. I just bought my Mom, a diehard Windows user until now, a Mac Mini running Tiger 10.4.5. She has had problems with Mail crashing since the first day she got it. She will try to delete certain Junk mail and it crashes. A few times Mail would totally restart from the beginning and I would have to set it up just like the first time it was opened. Loses all e mails in all mailboxes.
Now my wife, who has an eMac G4 running Panther is having similar issues. When deleting e mails the program will simply crash. Then upon restarting Mail it will go back and re-download duplicate messages from the server since it did not get to complete downloading when it crashed. But, as I try to go back to delete the duplicate and junk mail it crashes again. A vicious cycle.
I see so many posts with Mail issues. I thought it was related to Tiger only but it seems that Panther has problems with Mail now as well.
What gives Apple?? Do I need to start using Entourage? Too bad Outlook doesn't run in OS X!! I hate with a passion to have to use a Microsoft program because my Apple programs aren't cutting it.
Peter Mallamo

Peter,
First of all, I have had no crashes, and I know and communicate with many of the contributors to these discussions (those helping vs needing help), and none of us experience these crashes.
With 10.4, problems often come from issues with conversion of mailboxes originating in earlier version of Mail and OSX -- I have not thought that is the case for your mother?
Also with 10.4, it seems to me that for some people the updates have flaws in the installation -- whether this is due to the large size of some updates, and flawed downloads, or from poor practices during the installation of the update, I do not know.
Have you been able to check that the version of Mail is what it should be?
Leaving aside font issues, I think Mail in Panther often encounters problems from mailboxes being Overstuffed, when in long use, and messages with large attachments -- does total individual mailbox size exceeding 500 MB, and approaching 1 GB apply to any of you wife's mailboxes -- Inbox, Sent, other? Are any applications, other than Mail experiencing abnormal behavior?
Can you think of any other info, that might be unique to either your mother or your wife's Macs?
Ernie

Mail in inbox has disappeared

I use Apple Mail with Panther 10.3.9. Mail was open and the machine got hung up (spinning beach ball) I could not force quit anything, it was completely unresponsive, so I shut down and restarted. When I re-launched Mail, the contents of my main POP account were gone. No other folders were affected. I tried to restore it by deleting all contents of the inbox.mbox file except the mbox file (7.9 MB) and then putting the inbox.mbox in the home/library/mail/POP account folder and restarting mail, but it did not work. All I got was a new, empty folder/mailbox named INBOX which is empty. I opened the mbox file in text edit, and it was all of my messages, so they are there, I just need to get them back into mail message format. I have over 20G of free space on the drive. Anybody have any other suggestions to restore my messages? Thanks in advance!
Gail
G4 Dual 867 Mac OS X (10.3.9) 768 RAM

Not sure what the situation is now, but here’s what I would have suggested to solve the original problem.
Verify/repair the startup disk (not just permissions), as described here:
The Repair functions of Disk Utility: what's it all about?
After having fixed all the filesystem issues, if any, and making sure that there’s enough space available on the startup disk (a few GB, plus the space needed to make a copy of Inbox), try this:
1. Quit Mail if it’s running.
2. In the Finder, go to ~/Library/Mail/POP-username@mailserver/.
3. Locate INBOX.mbox and move it to the Desktop.
4. Open Mail. A new empty INBOX.mbox will automatically be created within the account folder, and this will allow you to continue using Mail normally while trying to solve the problem.
Although INBOX.mbox appears to be a file, it’s actually a special kind of folder (a package) that contains several files. Ctrl-click on INBOX.mbox and choose Show Package Contents from the contextual menu to see the files it contains. Of these files, mbox is the most important and is where all your messages are stored. What’s the size of that file? Depending on its size, you may or may not be able to directly import it back into Mail in the next step.
An Incoming_Mail file may also be present, in which case it might contain messages that Mail couldn’t transfer to mbox. Incoming_Mail is also a standard mbox file like mbox proper, just named differently, and can be imported back into Mail in the same way.
5. In Mail, do File > Import Mailboxes and follow the instructions to import the INBOX.mbox that’s on the Desktop. I’m not sure what the import options available in Mail 1.x are, but you should choose Other / Standard mbox or something like that, so that Mail looks at the mbox file only (and Incoming_Mail, if present) and ignores the other files in the package.
If Mail doesn’t let you select INBOX.mbox in step 5 because it’s a package instead of a plain folder, rename INBOX.mbox to just INBOX (i.e. remove the .mbox suffix) so that it becomes a normal folder, and try again. You cannot do this directly in the Finder because removing a suffix by normal means causes the Finder to hide the suffix instead of renaming the file. To remove the suffix from the name, you must do File > Get Info (⌘I) on the file and change the name there.
If all is well and you don’t miss anything, the files on the Desktop can be deleted, although you may want to keep them for a while, just in case.
Note: For those not familiarized with the ~/ notation, it refers to the user’s home folder (i.e. /Users/username). Hence, ~/Library is the Library folder within the user’s home folder (i.e. /Users/username/Library).

Mac mail program with complex HTML and ability to send hyperlinks?

Alright, here is the issue I've been struggling with forever.
I'm responsible for sending out my band's emails to our mailing list. I need to add hyperlinks and insert pictures that will show up in the body of the email for both mac and PC users.
In Mac mail with Panther, my hyperlinks come out fine for both Macs and PC users. However, my inserted pictures show up in the body of the email only for other Mac users. Most PC users only see the pics as attachments not in the body of the email.
I've also tried Entourage X, but the opposite problem occurs. Using HTML mode, my pictures always show up in the body of the email for both PC and Mac users, but when I'm in HTML mode there is no way to add hyperlinks.
What is my solution here? Does anyone use other email programs that would allow me to fix the problem. Perhaps I need to compose complex HTML messages in order to ensure hyperlinks and pics appear in the body of emails? If you agree with this, where would I begin to learn how to do this?
Please help!
Danny

I have been searching for how to create custom HTML emails in Mail, in a way that would work with OS 10.3 and 10.4, so as not to rely on the user having Tiger. After reading through many posts, I came up with a script that creates a new HTML message that you can still edit in Mail itself before sending, and you don't need Safari 2. I'm new to scripting so please let me know if this is useful.
Jodain
Part I: defines the HTML code; you can make something in the script itself as long as the string this_html ends up in proper formatting. I actually came up with this primarily for pasting most the html code in the script itself, with a few changing variables. If you do paste or type html code in the script, make sure you use \\ for every \, and \" for every ". If you're using TextEdit to alter the html, use find and replace in that order (\:\\ then ":\").
Part II: builds a message in Mail with the html content... an undocumented property of a Mail message. However, it only works when visibility is false, so unless you send it right away, the user is not able to still type the recipients and edit the body in Mail as he/she might be used to. Which brings me to...
Part III: takes the saved draft and opens it up for editing. The open command only lets you view the message, even if it is outgoing, so I had to come up with a work-around so you can still edit as if you're composing it for the first time.
--Part I
tell application "Safari" to set this_html to source of document 1
tell application "Safari" to set this_page to name of document 1
--Part II
tell application "Mail"
activate
set theMsg to make new outgoing message with properties ¬
{subject:this_page, html content:this_html & ¬
return & return, content:""}
tell theMsg to make new to recipient
save theMsg
--Part III
if not (exists the front message viewer) then make new ¬
message viewer
tell front message viewer
set selected mailboxes to {the drafts mailbox}
set sort column to date received column
set sorted ascending to false
delay 3
set selected messages to {first message}
tell application "System Events" to tell process ¬
"Mail" to keystroke return
end tell
end tell

Mail migration assistant did not upload old messages in inbox during upgrad

The mail migration assistant did not upload the contents of old messages stored in my inbox for mail in panther to tiger. It uploaded drafts and sent mail messages and even the husks of the messages themselves into the new inbox but not their contents, not the information contained in the messages themselves. I see that the old messages are accessible via spotlight but only their external identification remains in the new inbox, not what was in them. Is their anyway to rerun mail migration assistant or the mail setup assistant (whatever it may be called) so that it uploads all of messages from my old inbox under panther to the new inbox under tiger? I believe that while running initaially soon after I launched mail for the first time under tiger, the migration assistant for mail quit early, maybe because I had many messages stored in my inbox.
So my basic question is, is it possible to rerun the program that migrates mail from the old inbox under panther to the new inbox under tiger? If it's not, is it possible to first of all empty out the current inbox with its group of the external skeletal remains of messages but lacking their substance, the information contained in them, and then refill my current inbox with the entirety of the message, i.e., not just its identifying information, its external identification (from whom and about what), but also what the message at one time contained? In each of these messages it only has this bit of information: "The message from 'such and such a sender' with 'such and such a subject' has not downloaded from the server. You need to take this account online in order to download it." But of course I am online. The online bit I supose the message is about is the being online with the migration assistant, and that's the being online I would really like to go back to I suppose, before it seems to me this mail migration assistant quit on me prematurely, without uploading or downloading, whatever the term, the entire content of my inbox with its batch of received messages. In the process, it did, however, capture the entirety of my drafts and sent messages from their particular boxes.
Please help. How can I redo the migration step from panther mail inbox to tiger mail inbox so that my mail is in its inbox and reachable there as opposed to apparently being searchable by only spotlight?
Thank you.

I am having a similar problem. I just upgraded from 10.2.8 to 10.4.3. It didn't go well (a USB peripheral interfered)and I ended up upgrading while archiving users.
There was no 'restore users opportunity'. I have done a lot manually, which is painful...in fact reminiscent of why I don't like PC's. Anyway, I was able to locate and restore almost all the mailboxes, including a bunch of deleted files from the 'Previous Systems' folders. I still haven't found the secret location of all the email that was in the "Inbox".
I would greatly appreciate it if someone in the know could share where and how to restore my old inbox so I can get my important emails back. Hacking or magic software...what ever it takes.
Thanks

Erasing Mac Mail Sent messages

As a customer of Earthlink, I use Mac Mail for e-mail. I have over 300 messages in my Sent box and would like to get rid of most of them, but that action seems to be blocked by one large file I sent recently that does not allow me to trash it and keeps all messages sent before it from being trashed. Earthlink tells me this is an Apple issue. Can anyone suggest what to do?

You might be better off re-posting this in the Mail for Panther forum:
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=740
I remember threads from some years ago about big messages stuck in mailboxes and trashing something or other to fix it, but none of the details.

Mail hangs with spinning ball

I've spent the better part of today trying to get my Mail.app to work. Everytime I launch mail I get the spinning ball. I use an IMAP account.
I have deleted the entire Mail folder, com.apple.mail.plist and even started from scratch.
I have tried it on another machine, still the spinning ball
I tried Thunderbird and it works, no problem.
I tried setting Mail.app to just get headers and still it hangs.
It seems to hang while "Adding Message"
Any other ideas
Thanks.
Mac OS X (10.4.5)

Thomas
some users here make a point of erasing the HD to zeros & Installing the os from scratch on any new mac they buy. Admittedly a full re-install is rarely needed....but sometimes it's the quickest/most practical way to resolve a problem.
I'll hazard a guess here - & suggest that the mail issues might be related to importing the mail from panther.... there are a large number of threads relating to this. If the mbp hasn't been personalised/apps installed too much ( in 2 hrs) I'll venture that re-installing may well be your easiest option - but don't import the info from the Panther machine at this stage. ( that option is always available at any time using Migration Assistant in Applications/Utilities/ )
For setting up Mail manually, see http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106683
Having said that - personally I'd try deleting the Mail account that you imported & quitting Mail. Then deleting the file com.apple.Mail.plist which can be found in /Home/Library/Preferences/ then start Mail & set up manually as in the above link.
* Note that you will lose all messages,settings etc in Mail - but I figure since Mail isn't working, that's OK?. Also - Only do this if the original panther messages are still safely on the old iMac *
If you find that Mail works ok after this - Wait before you import the old messages from Panther & check out the various threads about it here, or post your own question. Ernie Stamper knows this stuff inside & out.

Can't send messages in Mail, what do I do?

Hi,
Just upgraded from Panther to Tiger. I set up Mail, but when I tried to send an E=mail it didn't gop through, instead I got a message saying "Sender address rejected: Not logged in" I checked, but all the settings are correct, similar to my other computer where Mail does work. I didn't really use Mail with Panther, so I don't know if it's an old problem.
Any ideas why this might be happening?

Provider is @aol.com
Checked the Connection Doctor and there are only green dots, stating that the connection is fine.
One says: "smtp.aol.com Connection to server succeeeded, no login required"
But when I try to send mail the error message says: "Cannot send message using the server smtp.aol.com. Server response is: Sender address rejected; not logged in"
So, that sounds like two conflicting messages. I'm using the same info on my other mac and it's working there (maul is sending).
I'm just now deleting a lot of old messages, maybe that would help? Although I don't really think so.
Any ideas?

Mail in Panther 10.3

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