Synching emails directed to'local' mailboxes

I have mail automatically directed to local mailboxes 'on my mac' using 'rules' but those emails do not show up on my icloud connected iPad. How do I get these emails to show on the iPad? Will Mountain Lion fix this problem?
Is there a solution/workaround? This has been driving me nuts since getting the ipad a few weeks ago. Several times I've missed getting back to folks because I was using the ipad & didn't know they had emailed me.
Thanks, hoping someone can help.
Ian

Thanks Roger.
OK, I thought that it should be a simple task to just drag the mailboxes 'on my mac' to 'icloud', but after a couple of hours of sheer frustration I guess I need some more help.
A couple of mailboxes were successfully dragged across from 'on my mac' to 'icloud', message count was correct, & they showed up on my ipad.
However most of the mailboxes do not behave like this. The message count is wrong with things like multiple duplicate messages (eg. one mailbox had just 17 messages but 40 something duplicates. On the ipad the duplicates dates had changed to 1/1/70 & could not be deleted - had to delete the entire mailbox.) With other mailboxes not all messages were copied across into icloud.
I also tried making new mailboxes under iCloud & transferring messages across manually by selecting & dragging, and by copying/cutting & pasting....... all with much the same results.
So far I have resisted trying any of this with the mailboxes that contain stuff I really don't want to lose, with thousands of emails going back to 2004 in many (100+) mailboxes.
HELP!
How do I transfer the mailboxes from 'on my Mac' to iCloud ......... Can this be done, or should I just leave them where they are & set up new mailboxes. If the latter it seems a rather 'clunky' way to go forward (poor continuity).
Thanks
Ian

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I have two user accounts on the same computer. I actually never really wanted two accounts, but a second one was generated when I chose to use the Migration Assistant to transfer my account from a previous computer to my current one, and I never did anything to delete the second one. Anyway, I have been using Mac Mail to view my work email messages from a Microsoft Exchange server. Awhile back, I was running out of space on my mail server, and decided to download a bunch of my email messages to local mailboxes in order to free up space.
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JEG

A quick update....
I copied the folder in ~Library/Mail/V2/Mailboxes that contains all of my local mailboxes over to the same location in the new account. When I go into mail, the entire file structure is there, however it does not let me view (or search) any of the messages. The messages can be accessed through the Finder, though.
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Emails in local mailboxes disappearing

I have a POP account and I'm accessing it only from one machine, my G5 dual 2GHz with 8GB RAM. Since I switched over from Eudora over the weekend, Mail.app has caused no end of headaches for me.
Occasionally, emails stored in various "On My Mac" local mailboxes have seen fit to just vanish, leaving what looks like a blank mailbox. Rebuilding the mailbox doesn't work. On the occasions that the emails do show up as a list, when I click on any individual email, it displays the infamous "The message from <Name> <[email protected]> concerning <Subject> has not been downloaded from the server. You need to take this account online in order to download it." message (which shouldn't be happening since the emails are already stored locally on my hard drive--this is a POP account after all and nobody has access to it but me and I'm only using one machine to access it). I have to re-import the emails using Mail.app's built-in menu option to do so. I cannot use the "remove the Envelope Index" trick because, in total, I have in excess of 560,000 emails in over 460 mailboxes that I need access to when searching for emails on a certain topic and having Mail.app reindex everything takes something close to 5 hours. I cannot be down for 5 hours. I have already run "Repair Permissions" using Disk Utility and have gotten a clean bill of health.
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The recommended mailbox size limit for Tiger Mail is
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limit?
I thought this artificial limit was removed after Panther? You're saying that it still exists? I sort my mailboxes by years so they are stored in this hierarchy:
<Topic> (contains current messages about <Topic>)
- <Topic>-200x (contains messages about <Topic> in year 200x so there could be many mailboxes at this level; when 2007 ends, I will have a <Topic>-2007 mailbox which I will move all email about this topic into, leaving the <Topic> mailbox only containing current emails for the year on that topic)
Now, this 2GB limit, is it just for the *.mbox folder or for just the Messages folder or for any hierarchy? When I do a "du -k" in some of my hierarchically filed mail, e.g., ~/Library/Mail/Mailboxes/Apple Lists, I get this:
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1612 ./ACN/ACN Forums 2001.mbox
11096 ./ACN/ACN Forums 2002.mbox/Messages
11100 ./ACN/ACN Forums 2002.mbox
31744 ./ACN/ACN Forums 2003.mbox/Messages
31748 ./ACN/ACN Forums 2003.mbox
65524 ./ACN/ACN Forums 2004.mbox/Messages
65528 ./ACN/ACN Forums 2004.mbox
130860 ./ACN/ACN Forums 2005.mbox/Messages
130864 ./ACN/ACN Forums 2005.mbox
175032 ./ACN/ACN Forums 2006.mbox/Messages
175036 ./ACN/ACN Forums 2006.mbox
415888 ./ACN
243280 ./ACN.mbox/Messages
243284 ./ACN.mbox
856 ./AppleScript.mbox/Messages
856 ./AppleScript.mbox
56 ./ARD.mbox/Messages
56 ./ARD.mbox
2652 ./Cocoa Dev.mbox/Messages
2652 ./Cocoa Dev.mbox
192 ./Mac Net Prog.mbox/Messages
192 ./Mac Net Prog.mbox
536 ./OpenGL.mbox/Messages
536 ./OpenGL.mbox
464 ./OSX Client.mbox/Messages
464 ./OSX Client.mbox
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34628 ./OSX Svr/MacOS X Server Topics 2002.mbox
98904 ./OSX Svr/MacOS X Server Topics 2003.mbox/Messages
98908 ./OSX Svr/MacOS X Server Topics 2003.mbox
159824 ./OSX Svr/MacOS X Server Topics 2004.mbox/Messages
159828 ./OSX Svr/MacOS X Server Topics 2004.mbox
163916 ./OSX Svr/MacOS X Server Topics 2005.mbox/Messages
163920 ./OSX Svr/MacOS X Server Topics 2005.mbox
119972 ./OSX Svr/MacOS X Server Topics 2006.mbox/Messages
119976 ./OSX Svr/MacOS X Server Topics 2006.mbox
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27828 ./OSX Svr.mbox/Messages
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The "has not been downloaded from the server" error
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Using the Finder, go to Home > Library > Mail. All
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folder located within the Mailboxes folder - Home >
Library > Mail > Mailboxes > Import > imported
mailboxes - which appear as folders at the Finder
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Within any .mbox folder at the Finder level is a
Messages folder (which contains each message stored
in the mailbox as a separate .emix file) and an
Info.plist file. Any other folders and file names are
left over from the import process which are not
needed by Tiger Mail but are not deleted after the
import process is complete and can sometimes cause
problems.
Does "Rebuild" delete the Info.plist and recreate it?
There is also a Eudora mailbox cleaner utility which
may be helpful here.
Yes, this is what I used to bring my mailboxes over from Eudora. It doesn't work very well and I'm in contact with the developer who has given me a beta to try and it's a little better.
Do you sleep? ;~)
Rarely. I sometimes get by on 4 hours a night.
This can be done before you go to bed which will be
completed in the morning when you wake.
I was assuming that the "Remove Envelope Index" trick was to be used when in dire need, not a nightly event. Are you saying that it should be a nightly event? Sometimes it doesn't even complete, leaving some mailboxes in the same state as outlined in my original post, whereupon I have to do the "Import Mailboxes from Apple Mail" trick from within Mail.app itself but this gets old fast since I have to move the contents from the Import(-x) hierarchy to its "proper" place in my mail hierarchy and then wait for it to "rebuild" which takes a while but nowhere as long as 5 hours. Maybe 20 to 30 minutes. But multiply that by a couple of mailboxes and my day is shot.
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Saving sent emails directly to mailbox

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Morning.
I want to streamline a mailbox that contains appr. 15'000 emails from the last five years. What would you suggest:
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TIA and kind regards, Friedrich

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Message was edited by: Topher Kessler

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I open the remote power shell to the exchange server 2013.
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At line:1 char:27
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Email disappearing after rebuilding mailbox

I rebuilt a mailbox that had about 200 messages in it, and over 1/2 disappeared.
This was not because of upgrading from 10.3, I've been running 10.4 since it came out and have all the updates installed.
This is not one of my Inboxes, but a local mailbox that I created for sorting/storing messages.
I can go to Library->Mail->Mailbox->Messages folder and see all the messages there. If I double click one, I can view the message.
I've searched the forums here and tried the following that has been suggested for similar problems, but it hasn't worked:
1. Repair permissions w/ Disk Utility
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3. Delete the Envelope Index & allow mail to import on it's own. (I didn't see an Envelope Journal).
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5. Rebuild the mailbox from within mail.
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OPEN LETTER TO THE MAIL 2.0 CODING TEAM. RSVP.
with thanks to DAVID GIMENO GOST, for answering so many people's posts about all the mail 2.0 bugs.
hi guys,
i love all things apple, and i have done for twenty years.
but with respect, your build of mail 2.0 really could be a lot better.
moving my mail from 1.0 on an ibook g3 running os X 10.3.9, over to mail 2.0 on an intel macbook 1.83 running os X 10.4.7 has been a nightmare.
the discussion boards of many mac sites feature countless cases of people making the move from 1.0 to 2.0, with all their e-mails disappearing.
having spent two weeks reading the knowledge forums, and learning about emailchemy, plus all the complications which, even with that third party program, still exist in moving one's mail over from version 1.0 over to 2.0, are both massive and horrendous.
and that's for me, who has twenty years of finding my way around mac bugs.
but this one is the most difficult i've ever seen, as well as being one of the most widespread problems in a FULL VERSION RELEASE of an apple program, which apple has done nothing to resolve during the six months in which this problem has been widespread in the mac community worldwide.
so thank god for DAVID GIMENO GOST !
i'm amazed that apple still hasn't come up with a patch for moving mail from 1.0 to 2.0.
even now, while i've finally got all my mail back today, 95% is showing as unread, due to the last obstacles in the process, which i can no longer face solving.
i've also lost hundreds of red mail flags during the transfer :o(.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE, guys:
we shouldn't need to be buying third party software to move our e-mails from apple mail 1.0 up to apple mail 2.0, and even then be faced by massive hurdles to overcome, which take weeks for someone who at least has SOME idea of what he's doing.
i pity all the people who read the numerous forum posts about how difficult it is to transfer their mail from 1.0 to 2.0, and simply give up on the spot, and have to start their e-mail history TODAY, unable to access their previous e-mail again - potentially now for ever.
because the ironic joke is that we can't even have an access copy of mail 1.0 on our macs to read our old e-mails, unless we hack that program out of the 10.3 cd installation set, which the gurus on your own web site recommend us NOT to do !
so what are we supposed to do, to access our old e-mail, which we can't open, even though YES, it is in our mail folder, and YES, we did full rebuilds of every mail folder, and YES, we trashed our mail preferences first.
e-mail is now at the very center of the average mac user's digital life.
a user's most important program should not require countless hours scrolling through the astonishing number of problems within mail 2.0, which the apple.com discussion boards evidence, with new problems being added every day.
please sort this out, and build a patch, for the sanity of the many people who love apple, but who are unable to access any of their old e-mails.
because i wouldn't wish the last fortnight on anyone else.
RSVP, APPLE.
with best wishes to everyone on the infinity loop,
michael thorne
london, england
[email protected]
ps: if you're a mac user who has been affected by the mail 2.0 disappearing bug, please post a reply to this message, and send me an e-mail to: [email protected], so that we can draw apple's increasing attention to it. thanks.
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Synch emails

Hi,
I have a Bold 9900 which I use alot for emails and have several email accounts linked to the Bold. I do have a problem with synching emails though - hope you can help.
It seems that emails are recieved by both my Outlook 2010 and Bold 9900, but if I send an email it will not recncile (i.e. an email sent from the Bold 9900 is not shown on Outlook, similarly an email sent from Outlook 2010 is not shown on the Bold 9900).
Is there a setting that I have to change or correct?
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Hi and Welcome to the Community!
There is no reconciliation directly between your BB and your Outlook client. Rather, each reconciles, according to their own capabilities, against your email server. For the BB, that is governed by this KB:
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Good luck!
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I am trying to send an email from Powershell on Mailbox role of Exchange server. I have installed Symantec Mail Security on Mailbox Role.
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+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Regards,
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Hi,
Please check the similar thread .
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[SOLVED]How to send email to a local user?

I have installed Mutt, msmtp, procmail and I can send and receive emails to/from remote hosts and I'd like to send email locally also (to the recipients on the same machine as the sender).
When I try to send email to a local user from the root account -
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Last edited by nbd (2014-09-30 22:33:37)

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ewaller wrote:
> Out of the box, sendmail should be safe, but I think you have to enable local mail.
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Hello all
I encountered a huge problem today when sorting out some of my mail.
I'm currently running Mavericks and have several accounts set up on the Mail application - these include an Exchange account, and a Gmail (Google IMAP) account.
My Exchange account is expected to expire soon, and so I decided to drag-and-drop mail items from the Exchange mailbox to the Gmail mailbox. This appears to have worked flawlessly for all Sent items from the Exchange account - all sent items have been moved and I can now find the items on the Gmail web interface as well as through the Mail application, and as a result, the Sent items folder is empty on the Exchange account.
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I'm quite confused as to how the drag-and-drop process appears to have worked well for the Sent items from Exchange to Gmail, but so poorly for the Inbox items. I'm not too happy with the fact that I seem to have lost nearly all of my Inbox items. I have checked the Mail 'Activity' window in the hope that maybe some sort of process was stuck - thus explaining this error, but there's currently no activity.
Thank you for taking the time to read this. I would really appreciate anyone's help in resolving this matter/finding the mail items that appear to have gone missing.

Dear Eric,
Apologies for the very late reply - I just thought I'd provide an update on my experiences.
From what I recall, neither rebuilding nor reindexing my mailboxes helped to recover the emails that were lost after dragging-and-dropping from the Exchange mailbox to the Gmail mailbox. However, after reading your reply to WilliamCWL, I explored the 'V2' folder from a Time Machine backup (one that was made not too long before I posted this thread) and found the Exchange mailbox. From there, I located and gathered the Exchange Inbox 'emlx' mail files, which I then converted to 'mbox' format, using a tool that I found online. I then imported the 'mbox' format file into Mail, and from Mail I was able to drag-and-drop the Exchange Inbox emails to the Gmail Mailbox!
Many thanks for your assistance in this matter Eric, it's much appreciated.
@ WilliamCWL - I hope that you were able to resolve your problem.
Regards

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