Mailbox on the Mac

I have noticed I have used a lot of disk space. My itunes and iphoto libraries are on a external HD. I am wondering if my On My Mac mailboxes are the hard drive. Where can I find these mailboxes? Are they large files? Is having a mailbox On the Mac the best way to work with a Gmail account?
Thanks.

Your On My Mac mailboxes are indeed on the hard drive (in home/Library/Mail, to be precise), but it's rare that they are the main cause of low HD space. Use something like OmniDiskSweeper to find out where your largest folders and files are.
Generally, it's advisable to use IMAP mail account type with GMail. That way, you get access to all your Gmail folders within Mail. The folders and messages are stored on the server but copied to your Mac for quick access. There's no real difference in the amount of space either IMAP or POP takes up, though.
Matt

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Why Won't Apple Mail 4.1 Accounts with Folders on the Mac Take in Email?

Tuesday, October 6, 2009
3:11 PM -0800
I cloned my first generation MacBook Pro to a new and very hot 3.06 dual core.
I have three mail accounts on Apple Mail 4.1 running on OS 10.6.1. I changed port 25 on SMTP to port 587 as required.
The two accounts with mailboxes on the Mac, Verizon and Yahoo! Plus, can't receive mail. They turn grey and show that little dinky sign. Connection doctor doesn't specifically tell me what's going on, either.
I'd love to have a way to check the POP server and it number, but I can't do that with Apple Mail.
I've taken out and re-created both accounts. I have a lot of email filters and don't want to lose them. I suppose the next thing to do is trash the ~Mail folder bug hold on to the filters. The geniuses at the local Apple outlet say it's something which must be fixed here at my home address.
Verizon is my major account, by far. I have made the required changes on the SMTP port from 25 to 587. I sure wish I could check the POP ports and their numbers on Apple Mail.
-John
-John

Greetings,
I'd love to have a way to check the POP server and it number, but I can't do that with Apple Mail.
Says who? Of course you can check this; if you couldn't then you also couldn't enter those port numbers, which would make no sense at all.
*For Incoming Verizon:*
POP server name is incoming.verizon.net
POP port number is: 110
Verizon does not support SSL, but does require Password Authentication.
You can see both of these in the Advanced tab of Preferences > Accounts
*For Outgoing Verizon:*
SMTP server name is outgoing.verizon.net
SMTP port number is 25
No SSL, but Password Authentication is required.
You can view these in the Account Information tab in Preferences > Accounts
*Incoming Yahoo! Mail Plus:*
POP server is plus.pop.mail.yahoo.com
POP Port number is 995
Check SSL and Pasword Authentication
*Outgoing Yahoo! Mail Plus:*
SMTP server is plus.smtp.mail.yahoo.com
SMTP Port number is 465
Check SSL and Pasword Authentication
Test it by sending email from each account to the other.

Where is a mailbox "on my mac" in the finder so I can copy

Running OS 10.6.8 with Mail program on a Mac Mini. On that computer we have a mailbox "On My Mac" in the mail program with old emails going back to 2007, which we want to move and put on a newer laptop (also running 10.6.8).
1. Where is this folder/mailbox in the finder? I would want to copy it to a USB thumb drive to put in the appropriate location on the newer laptop.
Any other suggestions related to my question and plan of action is greatly appreciated.
Thanks.

Make a new folder with a different name (xxxname2.mbox) and put it all in the new folder, keeping the same structure as you have now. I would try to just move within it all into the new folder. Then make a new mail box in mail and drag it in there. this will be a archive type of thing. Do a back up on this first. Then you should probably create a new mailbox (different name) moving forward.
As I mentioned before, I have always had multiple mail boxes for different customers, uses,... to help organize things, but this should work, as long as the names are different.
The file is larger because (if I understand you) it contains the attachments, with the messages)
Try putting it on a USB and see that you can open it all.
Now you know where to find where your mail is.

In e-mail, how do you create a Save to My Mac mailbox? The instructions aren't complete.

In order to save space in iCloud, the instructions recommend moving messages from iCloud to your Mac. They specifically state:
"In Mail, choose Mailbox > New Mailbox, choose On My Mac from the pop-up menu, then enter a name for the mailbox.
You don’t have to create a new mailbox if the On My Mac section of the sidebar already has a mailbox that you want to move iCloud email messages to."
The problem is that I can't find the "Mailbox" button or folder or drop down (or whatever it is). It doesn't say WHERE in Mail to find it.
Any suggestions?

I think I have been interpreting the instructions incorrectly. I was going into iCloud Mail, NOT the Mail app. I didn't realize they were connected, and that iCloud mail messages could be saved to the regular Mail app, which I already know how to use.
Thanks for the response. I think I've got it now.

How to get Drafts Mailbox at the top rather than in ON MY MAC

My wife is switching from Entourage to Mail and I can't get her set up the same as I have been in Mail for years. At the top of the left panel I have Inbox, Drafts, Sent and Trash, with sub listings for each of my mail accounts, followed by SMART MAILBOXES and ON MY MAC. My wife has the same except for the Drafts and its sub listings. Instead, she has several Drafts Mailboxes (1 for each email account) under ON MY MAC. How do I get Drafts at the top as I have it?

Then it may be that by some action, some existing Drafts mailboxes were found, and Mail moved them to the On My Mac section.
Has she yet in Mail composed a message, clicked on Save as Draft before sending, and checked to see if that has been saved in newly created Draft mailbox in the location you expected?
Ernie

Lost "on-the-mac" mailboxes when upgrading OS - SAVE MY MARRIAGE

My wife is going to kill me!
Found a lot of posts on this topic but not one that addresses my particular situation.
My wife had a 5 year old IMac. It was cluttered and acting grouchy, so I decided to totally wipe it clean and reinstall everything from scratch. (Backed up all her data onto a hard drive.) In the process, changed her system software from 10.3.9 to 10.4 (and then updated to 10.4.8).
Successfully, reinstalled her user data manually from the hard drive using terminal (as per article 106941 "Mac OS X: How to back up and restore your files"). Like many people report, her "on-the-mac" mailboxes are not present. Tried to import them from the backup harddrive - but there no longer is a "mailbox" folder in her User:Library:Mail folder.
So... where did they go?
imac Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Hello, and welcome to the Discussions.
Unless you have taken some unexpected action, they are probably not lost, but Mail cannot display them. There can be problems with flawed conversion of mailboxes from the prior version of Mail being used prior to upgrading to 10.4. Read the discussions at the links below, for a better understanding of why messages or access may appear lost, but not really be:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=413196
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=340466
and the underlying support document at:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301315
If you can remove all leftover files -- but only after checking the size of mbox versus Messages folder -- then the next step would be to force Mail to re-index all the mailboxes. Rebuild may be hindered by some leftover files, or perhaps you just didn't wait long enough.
Further info may be of benefit, after your examination of the contents of your account folders and other mailboxes.
Ernie

How can I transfer entire contents of Mail mailbox from one Mac to another?

I've long wondered how to do this:
I have two Macs - an iMac and a MacBook Pro.
I have categorized several hundred emails on the MacBook into a separate "mailbox" by itself. Let's just call it "Project XYZ emails" for the sake of discussion.
I need to transfer ALL of those emails +en masse+, hopefully still categorized together into a separate "Project XYZ emails" mailbox file, from the MacBook to the iMac. How is this done?
In the old days, when I used to use Eudora, this was quite simple -- one could physically locate the separate desired "mailbox" file in the Finder and just copy it from one hard drive to the other, and then place the mailbox into the appropriate place of Eudora's file structure on the second computer. Relaunch Eudora and voila, the new mailbox is there for viewing, etc.
But in Mail, I can't find any tangible "file" on my hard drive that represents a "mailbox" in the Mail program. And that includes control-clicking the application file itself and choosing "Show Package Contents." When I do that, I can see, after burrowing into the folders, a single large file called "Mail" which I think contains ALL mailboxes lumped together. But I can't see a way to separate them for individual manipulation.
Any suggestions or ideas on how to copy entire mailboxes in Mail from one Mac to another?

Thanks! Seems to have worked.
Once I imported tham, I had to fiddle around renaming mailboxes and "moving" the emails to the desired locations, but that only took a minute. So overall, seems like that's the solution! I only wish that the steps to do this were made clearer by Apple in the Mail "help" menu -- where I couldn't find any mention of how to do this.
A happy ending, in any event.
In case anyone reads this in the future, let me add in the missing steps, to make it perfectly clear:
In Mail, choose 'archive mailbox' from the mailbox menu.
+Copy the newly created archived mailbox file, which will probably be a file with the suffix ".mbox," from the original machine to the second machine.+
On the second machine: In Mail choose 'import mailbox' from the file menu.
+The emails will now appear in a new mailbox in Mail listed under the name "imported" or "import." If desired, either rename the mailbox, or create a new mailbox with the correct name, and "move" all the emails into it.+
Done!

My Mac has stopped receiving mail. Mail is still coming through to my iPhone and my wife's iPad but is not appearing on my mac. I have mail from today on the phone but nothing newer than 18 Feb on the Mac. I have not touched any settings. Can anyone adv

My Mac has stopped receiving mail. I have a mac.com address. Mail is still coming through to my iphone and my wife's ipad but nothing is coming through to my imac.I have mail from half an hour ago on the phone but nothing newer than 18 Feb on the mac. Everythng was working fine until recently and I have not touched any settings! Can anyone help?

So I tried something else recently and it seems to have fixed the issue. My mail is now getting new mail again and refreshing after waking from sleep without having to restart mail. Give it a try and hopefully it will help you too.
First, make sure your Mailbox List is visible (Shift + Control + M). Then select all of your inboxes, mailboxes, and folders (not just the root folder for nested folders, make sure to select them all). Then under the "Mailbox" menu, select "Rebuild."
It may take a while to rebuild them all if you have a lot, but like I said it seems to have done the trick for me. I hope that proves to be more of a long-term solution.

In Gmail we have two mailboxes mine and my wife's. When I send from my mailbox and when i indicate my mailbox in the 'from' box, it always picks up and sends my wife's email address. Help

in Gmail we have two mailboxes mine and my wife's. When I send from my mailbox and when i indicate my mailbox in the 'from' box, it always picks up and sends my wife's email address. Help

I have this exact problem. I have 3 email addresses on my mac and I can select one, and the email still be sent through another account and I won't know it until I get a reply for that email in one of the other accounts.
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X 10.9

If I have logged into my Mailbox, will the Crash Reporter send details which will help provide access to my Mailbox, to others?

My Firefox (3.6.23) is crashing frequently. The question is, if I'm in the middle of a logged in page, like Mailbox etc, and if Firefox crashes and a Crash Report gets generated, will the Crash Report contain enough URL details for anyone to enter my secure contents, like Mailbox etc?

Problem solved!
I started to suspect that the problem was with my computer rather than the apple servers.
Reparing disc permissions from Disc Utility seemed like an obvious thing to try but I thought I had done this without it working. However on OSX daily I read..."In mac OSX Lion repairing permissions from the Disk Utility app doesn’t repair the users file permissions"! Hmm nice one Apple- reparing permissions does not repair permissions! It seems that you have to use disc utility from recovery mode.
I then followed these instructions on OSX daily (dot com)
Repairing a Mac Boot Disk with Disk Utility & OS X Lion
Reboot the Mac and hold down Command+R (To boot into recovery)
Select “Recovery HD” at the boot menu
At the Mac OS X Utilities screen, select “Disk Utility”
Select the boot volume or partition from the left menu and click on the “Repair” tab
Repair Disk is now possible, click on “Repair Disk” to repair the boot volume
Now verify disk permissions and repair them
This solved the problem for me
Hope it helps......
Am I allowed to award myself a greenie? Well I'm going to anyway because it was a pile of work getting to the bottom of this and I hope it helps others.

Problems moving mailboxes to new Mac

I decided not to use the Migration assistant when I got my new Mac Pro - I installed all the software from scratch to make a nice clean installation. However, to move all of my mail across I simply copied the Mail and Mail Downloads folders from Library. I have the user folder and the hard drive named the same on my new Mac as on my old one.
It certainly looked like it had worked fine. But a few days on, I was trying to search for an old email which contained a font I needed, and discovered that the email was completely blank - and all others in the same mailbox were also completely blank. Oddly, the attachment was actually present in the Mail Downloads folder - but I'm concerned that the emails aren't actually there.
Fortunately the content is all still present on my old computer - so what is the best way to move all of my mail to my new Mac? Please note that I have about 4 inboxes for different email accounts, and some of my mail gets automatically moved to various mailboxes in the 'on my mac' section.

I copied the Mail and Mail Downloads folders again, and this time I also copied com.apple.mail.plist and com.apple.mail.searchhistory.plist. It now seems to be all there, I cannot spot anything missing. Are there any more files (preferences etc) that I should have copied?

HT6030 Up to now, I have been able to check what is still sitting in my Sympatico mailbox on the server by selecting any email and hitting command-i to get info. All I get In Mavericks is a burp. Is there a way to do this that I don't know about?

Up to now, I have been able to check what is still sitting in my Sympatico mailbox on the server by selecting any email and hitting command-i to get info. All I get In Mavericks is a burp. Is there a way to do this that I don't know about?

1. You did not get an error message telling you that your iPhoto library was getting full. You got a message telling you that your HD was getting full, right?
OS X needs about 10 gigs of hard drive space for normal OS operations - things like virtual memory, temporary files and so on.
Without this space your Mac will slow down as the OS hunts for space on the disk, files will be fragmented, also slowing things down, apps will crash and the risk of data corruption - that is damage to your files, photos, music - increases exponentially.
Your first priority is to make more space on that HD. Nothing else can be done until you do.
Purchase an external HD and move your Photos and Music to it. Both iPhoto and iTunes can run perfectly well with the Library on an external disk.
Your Library has been damaged from being run on an overfull disk.
How much free space on it now?

Migrating Eudora from Windows to the MAC (w. latest Mavericks version)

I am planning to migrate from Windows (XP) to a new MAC. My major stumbling block in the way of this switch is migrating reliably from Eudora 7.1.0.9 paid mode to MAC Mail without losing, corrupting, etc. my mail which is now stored on my PC. Based on older threads I learned that the import facility of the MAC is not the appropriate tool to use and that Mailbox Cleaner no longer works under Mavericks. I read all related old discussions but the world changed. I am not a computer expert, just a plain old user. I do not know how I would move a backup of Eudora mail from my PC to the MAC. Do I need to have a MAC formatted DVD or stick, is it a straight copy? Do I need to use "special" directory/file structures on the MAC? Can someone who actually recently accomplished this migration without major issues help with suggestions for tools and steps to accomplish it?
I also would appreciate comments from those who know both Eudora and current MAC mail about what is that MAC Mail doesn't provide, as compared to features/functionality offered by the MAC Mail. I love the fast and selective (across all or some mailboxes) search capability of Eudora, the smart filters, great sorting capability, no limitation for mailbox, folder, message size or number, the great spell checker, support for multiple accounts, the friendly, clean user interface, message preview capability, low memory usage, smart spam filtering, etc. The list goes on. Will I find similar capabilities with MAC Mail?
Your help would be very much appreciated.
P.S. This is my first time using this forum. How do I set up Email notifications when someone answers?

I have not received any help to this question but I was able to successfully migrate from my beloved Eudora to Apple's mail. I will summarize the experience for the benefit of anyone else who needs to accomplish the same.
After some research I came across an application that claimed that can do the migration: Emailchemy. I read their manuals. As commented by others, the manual from Emailchemy is cryptic and hard to follow. There is nothing to explain how one needs to use the application when migrating from a PC to a MAC. As it turns out the product has to run on both ends, on the PC and on the MAC. Since I am not a technical user, I tried to get help from their Email based Help Desk. They do not appear to be setup to help individual users. Quoting from their replies: “you may also convert to the IMAP format and use the ImportServer -- but that's more complicated and if you're not confident of your understanding of email clients and servers, you may want to avoid it.”. “Just follow the prompts in Emailchemy and do what they say. This can be a complicated move and I recommend you ask for help with it from someone you know who may be more familiar with Mac computers. Explaining how to use the Mac and the Mac Mail app over email will be difficult.” When I tried to follow up with them they just ignored my Emails and never replied.
Luckily I also located the Aid4Mail application from Fookes Software (https://www.fookes.com). I read their excellent manual and contacted Fookes with additional questions. I got very clear and helpful answers very quickly and was reassured that the application will convert on the PC my Emails to MBOX files that can be then copied to the MAC and imported into Apple's mail. I tested the software which was very easy to run and then licensed it for 2 weeks and did the migration. All my Emails were migrated while my folder structure was preserved. The dates, and all of the header info were also preserved and all attachments were kept with their respective messages. Messages were marked unread which helped me compare the message count from Eudora with the message count (available for unread messages) in MAC Mail. Julian from Fookes Software's Help Desk even recommended using a free application for migrating my Eudora address book (Dawn). Dawn's website: http://mysite.verizon.net/zakharin/software/Dawn/
I could not be more pleased with what I got for the money ($29). I highly recommend the application and the company for their excellent support.

I use internode and imap. When the ipad deletes emails it also removes them from the mac. How can I reverse this so the mac is the master and the ipad is the slave?ipa

I use internode and imap. When the ipad deletes emails it also removes them from the mac. How can I reverse this so the mac is the master and the ipad is the slave?

Thanks for the info. - I now know that deletion works both ways!! - (unlike POP where emails deleted from the ipad also deleted them from the mac even before I could read them, whereas emails deleted from the mac were not removed from the ipad!!! - ie. the ipad was the master over the mac - the slave). Prior to changing to imap I used to transfer all nongarbage emails from inbox to mailboxes before my husband could ask if he could delete emails on his ipad. I have noticed however if you do this in imap, they are removed from the inbox on the ipad as well (this did not happen with POP). So we still have to check but the number is less so we like imap better than POP.
Thank again

Mailboxes on multiple Macs

I've got an iMac and a MacBook Air and I was wandering if it's possible to sync my mailboxes in Mail with both computers. Should I place my mailboxes on the local drive ('on my Mac'), or somewhere else? I've got a MobileMe account, but I haven't figured out how it can help me with this. Hopefully anyone of you can!

MobileMe uses IMAP which means that unless you move the messages yourself, all your received and sent mail is kept on the MobileMe server, so all you need to do is set up both copies of Mail to point to your MobileMe account and you should be able to see all your sent and received mail on both systems. Do not move anything to the local drive ("On My Mac") of either system or you won't be able see the item from the other system.
Sorry, I know nothing about Gmail. Perhaps someone else will respond about that.

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