Migrating older mail to 10.4.8 apple mail

I have an old imac running OS8.6 that has a lot of e-mails I would like to get to a new Macbook running 10.4.8 and using apple mail as the mail program.
How can I do this?

No one has any ideas?

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How can I set up a rule to delete all messages older than 6 months left in Apple Mail's main inbox?
I have created other rules to move some of my daily messages into specific folders and I don't wish to auto-delete those.
Just the general stuff that keeps piling up in my me.com main email box. Mail such as FB announcements and other low priority stuff I want to look at before deleting but don't want to keep longer than a week or month.
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thokitts

Thanks, but I am looking for a more automated solution than hand marking emails as junk. I might as well move them to the trash myself.
Again, these are emails I want to receive and quickly read, but not keep longer than a week or month or so. By setting a rule to toss any older than 30 days back then my Mail program (and thus my hard drive) won't be wasting so much space. For example, currently I have over 6000 read messages, with their attachments, in my main email box. I'd rather not have to physically attend to sorting the one I don't want out.
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It seems this should be possible.
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Migrate only Mail

i recently did a full migration fro my g5 to macbook.
my question is, i now want to only migrate (only) my mail from g5 to macbook again, can i migrate only mail ? and if so, will it update or fully erase my mail and that is already there.
also the same for safari.
thank you

It will erase if you simply drag and drop the Mail and Mail downloads folder from one Users -> yourname -> Library folder to the next. If you import the mailboxes using Mail's File menu -> Import Mailboxes and navigate to the same folder, you shouldn't experience the same problem. Mind you, you will then have duplicate mail in from the import, if you didn't delete from the old machine the mail that you already copied over.
Note: Target Disk Mode is the preferred migration method between PowerPC and Intel ->
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=58583
as it is less likely to cause problems in the long run due to incompatible PowerPC drivers and plugins. This user tip explains how:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=435350&tstart=0
You were fortunate the migration assistant worked off the bat, but it could have left something behind that you don't want.
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How do I migrate outlook mail folders to mac pro

How do I migrate outlook mail folders to mac pro.

Outlook for Windows:
About Windows Migration Assistant
Outlook for Mac:
http://www.techhit.com/outlook/export_import_outlook_to_entourage_apple_mac_mail .html

Why does my macbook pro creat a new account when i wanna migrate pics to my account with the apple software?

Yesterday i migrate my pics and songs with the apple migrate progeam from my Windos laptop to Macbook pro. I did wanna migrate them to my acount. It took 8hours and 30 min to do it and then today i seen that it creat a new account. So i can't use the pics and songs with my main account which i wanna use always. WHY THEY MADE A NEW ACCOUT??? I DIDN'T WANNA IT! and why does they don't tell before? Apple said i can migrate when ever i wanna my date but never said it will creat a new account. So how can i now take my pics and songs from the stupid new account to my main accound and delete that new stupid account?
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I recently upgraded the OS on my iBook G4 to Tiger - and performed an archived install just to be safe. After installation was successful, most of my preferences transferred with the upgrade seamlessly (Calendar, Address Book items, bookmarks etc.)
But, when I opened Mail, although my mail server preferences transferred okay, I discovered that most of my earlier mail from the the last year or so is missing. And for most of the messages that are actually apearring in my inbox, Mail is saying "X Message has not been downloaded from the server. You need to take this account online in order to download it." But, I am online and I can retrieve and send mail just fine.
Anyone have any idea how imight be able to recover my older mail? (I checked in the "Previous System" archived folder and sadly, there is no Library/Mail folder in there.) If worse comes to worse, I did back up all of my files on another drive before I upgraded, but I'm curious if maybe I'm just doing something wrong and my old Mail is currently buried somewhere on my laptop. Any help would be apprecaited. Thanks.

The conversion from Mail 1.x to Mail 2.x is broken. Take a look at the following thread to better understand the problem:
Help! "You need to take this account online in order to download it."
More specifically, if this is 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.
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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 (also referenced in the thread I mentioned at the beginning of this post) 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.
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I've managed to import my mail, but I am so confused now. In the side bar where it shows all my mailboxes, I used to have a Business mailbox folder for one of my email addresses (my freelance), and a bunch of subfolders for each of the clients. Then, I had my "personal" mailbox folder and all my subfolders (family, kids info, school, etc.).
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When does "the whole thing repeat again"?
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