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I have an old Mail archive from Panther I'd like to merge with Snow Leopard Mail now that the application seems much faster and stable and I have much larger hard disk. Some of the old mailboxes are identical to the current ones.
Is it possible to simply copy the .emlx files from the old folders into the current ones and then re-build all the Mailboxes? Or is there a better way to merge them?
I'm assuming each .emlx file has a unique name which won't be duplicated between the archived and current mailboxes. In the case of actual duplicates where there might have been some overlap, I would assume I can simply chose to keep the originals.
Anybody done this before?

I'd make a new Mailbox, and just drag them to that to see if it's what you want.

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