Saving email

I'm a new Mac user changing over from a PC & I've always used Outlook Express for email. Maybe just a function of my twisted mind, but OE seems to have proven totally reliable on saving messages sent & received. I pull them into sub-folders & I can use them like a journal to quickly review exchanges in order of date without having to call up a document.
If OE gets too full, which it has a couple of times, I do some extra housekeeping & all is well.
Not only has iMac lost or deleted mail but I've completely lost my address book a couple of times & that's no small matter when you build a bunch of newespaper contacts into one. Judging by all the posts on that problem, I can see I'm not alone. I have searched few articles on trying to translate my OE to import to the Mac, but why try if all is in jeopardy?
Will I ever get this kind of use + security out of Mac's mail or should I just be looking for a Mac compatible OE?
Wordy, right? My first post. Thanx

Data loses in Address Book appear to be “normal” — don’t ask me why, I’ve never experienced them myself and have no idea why so many people have those problems even in the absence of synchronization issues.
Mail data loses, on the other hand, while apparently frequent as well, are almost always caused by the user doing something wrong, making wrong assumptions based on how other mail clients work, ignoring warnings displayed on the screen, etc.
The thing is, no matter which applications you use, losing data is always a possibility, not just because of software bugs, but also because of user mistakes, power outages, hardware failures, filesystem corruption, etc. Hence, no matter which operating system and applications you prefer, you should always regularly back up any data you cannot afford to lose. Thinking that you don’t need backups because you’re using a “reliable” application is a big mistake that, for some reason that escapes me, many people only realize when it’s too late... And if you have a good backup strategy in place, the risk of losing data because of a software bug isn’t that big an issue (although it must still be considered when choosing a software product)...

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how do I transfer saved email to my new icloud account?

When you migrate a MobileMe account to iCloud your email is transferred to the iCloud server, including all folders on the server.
However your signature says you have 10.6.8 - is this correct? (If not please amend it to prevent confusion.) Snow Leopard is not compliant with iCloud but you can set Mail up manually to access your iCloud email. Please see this page:
Entering iCloud email settings manually in Snow Leopard or Leopard

Can I change the Subject line of a saved email?

Sometimes I save an email and want to revise the subject line so it's more descriptive of what's actually in the message. I remember being able to do this in Outlook, but can't quite figure out how to do it in Apple Mail. (And I don't want o have to forward it to myself, as that changes the From line.)
Is there a way to simply edit the Subject line of a saved email?

Actually, MailTags will kind of do what you want. You can tag a message in a number of ways, and one of them is to make a note, and display that note as the subject of the email. For example, I have a message:
Re: Re: Initial generic topic
Which actually contains useful information, so in MailTags I make a note "Pablo's Thesis Results" and click "Show as Subject", and now I see the subject as
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Saving email attachments in os2.1

It seems that saving email attachments such as pdf's is slightly different in 0s2.1....I now have to touch and hold a downloaded attachment for a second or so, then the save/open option appears. In, previous versions, you just had to tap the attachment to save and open. Now if you tap a pdf attachment, it immediately opens as a temporary file in adobe reader.
Probably a better way now, but frustrating to have to learn it without any guideline.
Also, downloading attachments seems flakey....sometimes the spinning circle sits for many minutes before the download starts.
I am continuing to find the whole native email experience to be less than desireable.
The email duplication thread describes a number of user experiences from before and after the upgrade. The good news is that the duplication has been solved, but the red x and difficulty to reliably send emails continues.

There is an even better way. If you have the dropbox or CloudOn App (both free for Ipad) you can always touch for two seconds the attachement in the email (PDF, Office doc) and select "Open In", you can then open in either of these Apps and save them to the Cloud. I use dropbox and it created a default folder called uploads where all my documents from email are saved...very neat.
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Saving email with attachments together

I am running leopard on an iMac. I am a recent convert to Mac from the PC, and since I get a lot of emails with attachments, I simply want to save the email and attachment as one entity, as I used to do on my PC. It is very important that I be able to easily know which attachments came with which email. Ideally I would like to retrieve a saved email from a folder, open it, and also see the attachments. Currently, when I try to save an email that contains attachments, I go to File and pull down SAVE AS... A box pops up asking me for the location and it also contains a box at the bottom for me to check if I also want to save the attachments. I check the box, but no attachments are saved. I can go under File and pull down to Save Attachments, and it will save them to wherever I want, but I need the email and attachments together as one unit, for later retrieval. SO CAN ANYONE TELL ME WHAT I AM DOING WRONG HERE ??

Ok, first your attachments in Leopard Mail are saved in homefolder/library/Mail Downloads, so whatever you do, do not delete attachments in that folder.
Second, if you have an IMAP account, go to mail>preferences>accounts>advanced... and make sure that for "keep copies of messages for offline viewing" the option "all messages and their attachments" is chosen.
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Thunderbird automatically updated to version 24.6.0. It deleted all of my saved emails without warning me. Can I recover these????

How can I recover these saved emails???

It was like I was starting Thunderbird for the first time. Created the new accounts, although it did pull all the account information over. Just upset that it didn't warn me to back up everything. Had several important emails sitting in my inbox. Went to open Thunderbird and got the message of "Please wait, installing updates". When it opened everything was gone......

I have a Mac Book (2006) All my saved emails for two and a half years have the same date. How do I get the original dates back?

From the "date and time" I tried to drag the month and year to my menu bar. It did not stay, so I did it several times, but to no avail. I closed the window and went back to my Thunderbird email only to find that the date I tried to use became the date in the "date received" column of all of my emails from back to 2011. I changed the date a few days later, and then the date changed on all of my emails. I would like to undo whatever I did to the dates so that the emails show when they were originally received. I did manage to get "the order received" which helps a little, but I cannot see the original dates.
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I at first thought it might be a Mac thing, but I couldn't find a solution. I realized that the date only affected my email, so then I thought it must be a Mozilla problem.

Tried toadd new subaccount, instead I lost all my existing subaccounts and saved emails. Help!

I tried to add an additional sub-account under local folders; instead all my existing local folders disappeared with all my saved emails including valuable information.
I cannot find any information on where to find these missing sub folders.
As far as I can understand it, doing a system restore will NOT restore them. They are not in the delete box.
Any thoughts on where they have disappeared to?
Thanks for your help.

Yes, I meant subfolders.
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I have saved my important emails to my flash drive and have always been able to open them. For some reason, now I cannot access any of them and keep getting the same message. It is:
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Thanks for your help, Pat. This actually did not work, however, in another post from 6/7/10, someone had asked about Adobe Reader 9.3 not working with Windows 7. I see that you had answered that post also, but the problem was solved by graffiti. Graffiti said that if you have both Reader and Acrobat installed on the same machine, you should uninstall one and repair the other since both fight for resources leading to various issues. Once I uninstalled Reader, the problem was solved. Thanks so much for taking the time to try to help me. You actually did, by leading me to the correct answer. Have a nice day.

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I just bought a new iMac and when transferring the contents of my previous mac the mail folders were all empty. How do I get back my saved emails?

I just bought a new iMac with OS X Mavericks, and when I transferred my data from my old iMac with Snow Leopard, all my mailboxes appeared, but they were empty. How can I get back my saved emails?

Quit Mail. Force quit if necessary.
Back up all data. That means you know you can restore the Mail database, no matter what happens.
Triple-click anywhere in the line below on this page to select it:
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Copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. In the Finder, select
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ExternalUpdates.storedata
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Relaunch Mail. It should prompt you to re-import your messages. You may get a warning that the index is damaged and that Mail has to quit. Click OK. Typically, the process takes a few minutes, but it may take hours if you have gigantic mailboxes. In that case, you may be able to speed things up by temporarily adding your home folder to the Privacy list in the Spotlight preference pane. Remove it when Mail has finished importing.
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I believe that system has a hall sensor on it to detect when the lid is closed so it can put the system to sleep and/or disable the monitor so it can be used with an external monitor only. If the sensor is marginal or has a bad cable, it may intermittently cut the monitor on and off, and may likewise put the system to sleep. One way to check would be to plug in an external monitor and if the laptop's screen cuts off or doesn't show up, start using the trackpad and press on a non-typing key like the shift key. If the external display suddenly pops and becomes active while the laptop display remains black, it's probably a problem with the sensor or the cable/connection. You might be able to fool the sensor into kicking on and off by moving a magnet over it. It's located on the left had side of the base with the unit opened up, and right over the audio output plug.
I know of some people that put a small magnet right over the hall sensor's location so the laptop display turns off and they use the system with an external monitor, keyboard, and mouse. If fooling with magnets, make sure they're small and don't get them close to the hard drive because a strong magnet can wipe them out.
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Getting back my saved emails

I had an IMAP account that I no longer have access to. However I had many email messages from that account saved on my Macbook. I don't know what I was thinking, but I deleted the account in Mail. I then realized that I wouldn't be able to read my saved messages anymore. So I restored the directory ~/Library/Mail/imap-{username}@{domain}.com. Mail still couldn't see it. I then changed the directory to ~/Library/Mail/imap-XXX{username}@{domain}.com and recreated the account. Of course since I no longer have access to the email account it doesn't connect (although that didn't keep me from seeing my stored email before I deleted the account). I then deleted the newly created ~/Library/Mail/imap-{username}@{domain}.com and renamed ~/Library/Mail/imap-XXX{username}@{domain}.com to ~/Library/Mail/imap-{username}@{domain}.com. I still can't see my saved emails.
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what kind of backups do you have? if they are Time Machine backups you can restore what you need from Mail interface using TM. just start TM while in Mail, scroll back in time and restore what you want. restored stuff will be placed in a separate mailbox in "on my mac" section.

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