Time machine mail

I would like to use time machine or back up ONLY my mail. Is that possible?
Thanks. Mike.

Hey..
Thanks for your response. I have only Safari open right now and activity monitor says:
% user: 2.01 Threads: 247
% system: 1.52 processes: 61
% nice: 0.00
% idle 95.5
I'm not really sure what that all means. I have 3GB of RAM. I repaired some permissions on my HD the other day...would that be a problem? I am not really even sure what that does...just saw it on one of the other threads and thought I'd try it. I did "verify" first and there was a list of about 15 items...so I repaired them. Is there anythign similar to PC defragment or any other maintanence I can do to preserve my laptop? I have been using Mac for 4 years now and have never thought about a maintance application on my machine...
Thanks for your help..
~RICKY 

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Time machine Mail backup size

Hi everybody,
I don't understand why my Time Machine backups are around 1Go every time. Not every hour, but every 2 or 3 backups.
So my TM HD gets quickly full all the time.
I've used BackupLoupe, and I've realized that the problem comes from Mail.
It backs up around 750 Mo all the time.
Mail is set with an imap gmail account.
I've read the same issue here, but the post is archived :
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2205780?threadID=2205780
I've not read the size issue has been solved, so If someone can tell me how.
Thanks a lot,

From the Mail menu bar, select
Mail ▹ Preferences ▹ Accounts
Select the problem IMAP account, then the Advanced tab in its settings. From the menu labeled
Keep copies of messages for offline viewing
select
Don't keep copies of any messages
If you're not sure which account is involved, take this step in each one.
Another option is to exclude the hidden folder that contains the messages from your backups. You can do that in the Time Machine preference pane.

Time Machine & Mail - mail missing; invalid snapshot

To cut a long story short, I did a clean install of 10.6 and lost approximately 2 months of email messages. Good news -- I have Time Machine backups? Not so fast....
I cannot find .emlx files for those messages in the sparsebundle. (Can't seem to do a full search, but I am checking the usual places.)
If I launch Mail then start Time Machine, the Mail pane w/in Time Machine says "Invalid Snapshot". I assume this is due to the backups of messages from an older version of Mail.
Any ideas of what I can try, short of a full restore (which I think would take a long time and would be unlikely to work if I cannot find the emails in the sparsebundle)? Do I just give up (Apple said the messages are gone, though they cannot figure out why I could see them just prior to upgrade to 10.6, then couldn't see them immediately after upgrade + import)?
Could they be cached anywhere?
Thank you so much. I'm desperate here.
More detail is available in this thread: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2143100&tstart=0

hi--
you weren't flippant at all. i appreciated your replies.
when i reviewed hidden files, i could see TM logs on the backed up volumes.
to be clear: in mid-august, i got a new time capsule, so it contains ALL backups ever done on that machine. data should not have rolled off.
i suspect the data is gone. i'm really pretty upset by this -- just disappointed. i have a great deal of apple hardware, apple operating systems, and an apple backup solution, so there's no other vendor involved.
i now realize i could have taken one additional step (archive mailbox?) that might have prevented this from happening, but nowhere in the apple support documents did i see that this was necessary (copying home/Library/Mail & prefs was listed as enough), and i didn't think i'd need a 3rd option (in additon to the copy + my TM backups).
ugh.
it's truly puzzling as o where these could have gone. i'm unsure as to whether to trust it in the future.
do you think there is any issue with possibly having restored to a different (physical) drive? i know TM keeps that thumbprint of each drive, and since i restored to a USB boot drive (and restored my data to another RAID set), could that be preventing me from doing a proper restore? i wouldn't think so.
*here's the main issue at the moment:* this is my primary machine, and it's now been down for 4 days. it will be another 3-5 days before i get an answer from engineering (my bet? "we don't know."). i'm hesitant to do any real work on the machine, as that will involve data being overwritten...just in the longshot case that they will have some idea about it. however, it seems really unlikely that any data will be recovered. do i just give up and go on? if i set up the system to use time machine again, i'm worried (as i've seen before) that it will overwrite the prior backups and render them inaccessible. if i use the system without a backup plan, then i'm exposed to more trouble.
the good news? i had sent in full system logs from mid-august (when mail was working) in response to another issue. (engineering's solution: reinstall the OS.) they just had me send in new logs today. i doubt they'll make any difference.
hope you enjoy your new toy! be extra careful with that restore!
i sincerely thank you with your efforts to help. i'm just frustrated as all of this is from one vendor and when OS's and software is designed to run on only one set of systems, there should be fewer opportunities for error. this is a pretty big deal, IMO.

SL Server and Time Machine Mail backups

Hello all
We've recently taken on a client who previously used a SL Server for their mail. Unfortunately their previous IT guys have taken away the server and wiped it now. All we have is a hard drive with the Time Machine backups on it.
Our client is now using a Windows Exchange server for email and I was wondering if there's anyway we can extract the individual emails for the users from the time machine backup so we can convert/migrate them into the exchange accounts.
Failing that, does anyone know where the location for the specific emails are on the Time Machine backups?

I'm having the same problem. I can't use Time Machine at all on Snow Leopard Server on an Xserve. There are 2 1TB drives configured as a mirrored RAID set, and a 3rd internal 1TB drive set up to run as a Time Machine backup drive. I have not had any luck after almost a year of trying to get this to work, and I am finding no help on the Internet. I've seen the question asked, but it is never answered. Does ANYBODY out there have an clues as to why this keeps happening? Is it about permissions, since these files are being served from the sharepoint? If I exclude everything but one or two files, the process works, so it's not a hardware error, as far as I can tell. Can't I get TM to bypass any problem files and log them to a report? There are thousands of files. I can't exclude them one by one. I'm already very old.

TIME MACHINE - MAIL BACKUP - MAC 10.6.8

Hi guys
I am new to using Time Machine and still learning about my Mac.
I have many important work emails that have contact information of people i am dealing with in other countries if i Lose my emails i am screwed. Does time machine backup your emails safely say something were to happen to my Mac???
I have been reading mixed reviews so I am unclear...... Help appreciated.
Thanks guys

It will unless you have excluded them in System Preferences/Time Machine. If they are important to you, I suggest you make a 2nd backup on another external drive using a cloning program.
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How to restore mail account from time machine

Hi there,
I would like to restore all my accounts and mails from the time machine. Unfortunately it doesn't seem that either Mail or time machine give this option.
Is this possible?
Thanks in advance

Hello there, AngryMario.
The following Knowledge Base article offers up how to restore mailboxes and content using Time Machine:
Mail (Mountain Lion): Restore mailboxes and their content
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH11713
Thanks for reaching out to Apple Support Communities.
Cheers,
Pedro.

How restore aol sent mac mail from time machine?

I am using mac mail and an imap connection to aol. I also have a time capsule and use time machine for backing up. Yesterday I stopped receiving incoming mail in mac mail and tried deleting the aol account in mac mail and then setting it up fresh. I was shocked to find that my 25,000 AOL sent emails did not restore! I was told by an apple genius bar rep several months ago that once mail was on my machine that the emails would NEVER be lost. Apparently this is not true. When I open mac mail and go into my time capsule using time machine, however, do not see the SENT mail icon under AOL--it goes away? When I try to restore the aol mail from the day before the incident the only thing that comes up is the one Sent Mail mssg that I sent AFTER the deleting and restoring of my AOL account in mac mail. The only relevant post I have found is the one below which was posted in 2008. Please let me know there is a way to get back my sent messages. I can't get them directly from the aol server because the server does not save messages that are sent from any client but AOL. Thanks.
http://raffyjohn.com/2008/01/29/restoring-apple-mail-and-your-emails-from-time-m achine/
Restoring Apple Mail and Your Emails from Time Machine
filed under: How-To tags: mail, timemachine Tuesday, January 29, 2008, 11:31 am
UPDATE (25 August 2010): Please note that this post is well over 2 years old and as Tim pointed out in the comments below, this method may not be the best solution for restoring emails. According to his restore efforts, changes where made to the timestamp from the date in which they were received to the date in which they were restored. I have not tested this myself.
The hard drive on my PowerBook completely died the other day, but I luckily had been running Time Machine backups since upgrading to Leopard. (I wasn’t all that ****** off seeing as I was eager for an excuse to replace my wimpy 40Gb hard drive with a new 160Gb drive). I fumbled a bit, looking for a specific Apple Mail restore tool. I knew where all my emails lived, but I thought that Apple would have a specific means for restoring apps like Mail. So I created this mini-tutorial on how to restore Apple Mail from Time Machine simply because I could not find this method elsewhere.
Supposedly, If you attach your Time Machine backup drive, open Apple Mail then launch the Time Machine application, you are presented with historical views of Apple Mail. This did not work for me, the historical views were just blank, so the steps below do not take this approach.
Restoring Your Emails from a Time Machine Backup
Warning: If you have already setup Apple Mail with your accounts and preferences, this will negate ALL your doings.
Note: This process will restore all your email accounts, preferences, passwords, smart mailboxes, etc.
The How-To
Before loading Time Machine, open the Finder and navigate to Home Folder (username) -> Library. In there will be a folder name “Mail”. Rename it to “Mail (default)” (Select the folder then hit the Return key to rename).
Mount your Time Machine Backup Drive (ahem, plug it in).
Control + Click the Time Machine Application and chose “Browse Other Time Machine disks…”. This, of course, brings up the historical view of your backups.
Go back to your most recent backup (2nd window back) and navigate to Home Folder (username) -> Library. Select the “Mail” folder and click the restore button (bottom right).
Once the restore is completed, open Apple Mail and you will be presented with an import wizard (below). Simply follow through the prompts and you will be good to go.
That’s it!UPDATE (20-January-2009): After step 4., also restore ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plistThanks Jon C.
If you have multiple mail accounts, you should also restore the ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist file as well. This will ensure all of your account settings are imported. – Jon C.
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40 Comments
Chucho
May 13th, 2008 at 11:11 amThanks it’s a great hint, you should post it in macosxhints.com
Westin
May 19th, 2008 at 3:28 amAwesome content and great instructions even for stupid people like me. Thank you so much for posting this. It worked like a charm and really is appreciated at 2:30 a.m. after hours of reinstalling junk.
Slippery Snake
June 23rd, 2008 at 9:15 amThis worked. However, I had three email accounts, and it only imported one. My Smart Mailboxes were not imported either.
Jon C
July 30th, 2008 at 2:50 pmIf you have multiple mail accounts, you should also restore the ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist file as well. This will ensure all of your account settings are imported.
Joseph Hurtado
August 26th, 2008 at 11:23 amRaffy,This tip is worth it’s weight in gold! Thanks so much for posting such a well though out recipe for a Mail Rescue operation.Just put Jon’s advice on the article, that is also very valuable!Take care,Joseph Hurtado
from Toronto
Cory
December 3rd, 2008 at 9:25 amYou saved my life! Thanks!
Drew
January 19th, 2009 at 12:08 amCheers Great tip! Thank you very much for your time!
Lizart
May 23rd, 2012 at 2:00 pmStill working in May of 2012! Thanks so much!
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May 29th, 2012 at 11:11 amIm getting a teeny problem. I cant get my reader to pick up your feed, Im using bing reader by the way.
Bruno Zysman
May 31st, 2012 at 4:56 pmThanks so much for this tips
I could get back my 170 000 mails in 5 hours thanks to this post, after having tried for few hours without success…Bruno

Don't try to restore the file; restore the Note. Go in Mail to the mailbox where the note belongs. Enter Time Machine from there and step back until you find the Note.

Lost mail rules when upgrading to ML, can't restore from time machine

Hi,
I've installed mountain lion and restored from time machine and mail rules were not there. There's only news from apple.
I tried to restore the rules myself (MessageRules.plist and MessageRules.plist.backup) but when opening mail rules were not there yet. Nevertheless, i can add rules manually, so if there was a way of looking at the past rules I could just copy them (though it's not the best way).

My rules are still there, so perhaps Apple support speak with resource forked tongue.
Comparing an old (pre ML) rules file from 20th June with the ML one, the differences are:
The file name was: MessageRules.plist, the ML one is SynchedRules.plist. Both are in my V2 folder, but the old Rules have been copied (by Mail, not me) into the new SynchedRules file.
In the old file, for each item (Rule) the first line was Active (Key) String (Type) 1 (Value). In the ML file, this line is no longer there, so the first line is AllCriteriaMustBeSatisfied.
You can see these differnces in the "preview" part of Finder Show Info, if you have the two files to compare.
Thus, just copying and renaming the old Rules file probably won't work, because of this difference. Mail probably just makes a new file because the copied file isn't as expected. It should be possible to edit the old plist file to remove the "Active" line, and rename it to SynchedRules.plist (but see below). The top is slightly different, just below <dict>, as this relates to the Active line. There are a couple of lines at the bottom that aren't in the new file.
The "Active" line that has gone is now in a file called RulesActiveState.plist. This file is just a list of RuleIds from the SynchedRules.plist (like this:
AC6F6611-FF61-4AA6-9682-BA100EFAC233)
Doing this does sound rather tedious, but might be quicker than manually re-entering blocked email addresses etc. to replicate old rules. As plist files are in xml format, it should be possible to use a text editor to delete the unwanted "Active" line from the message rules list by Find & Replace All (with nothing). All this could then be copied to the "SynchedRules.plist. You would need to copy the RuleIds into the RulesActiveState.plist as well.
Make a copy of the files first just in case...

Mail.app 4.1 does not work with 10.6.1 after restore from time machine

After I restored my complete system from time machine backup using the original snow leopard install disc. My Mail.app won't start up anymore. It shows me the message:
"You can't use this version of Mail with this version of Mac OS X"
"You have Mail version 4.1 (1076/1075.2). It can't be used Mac OS X Version 10.6.1 (Build 10B504). For more information, click the Help button"
I don't understand the error message as mail 4.1 was installed as part of Mac OS X 10.6.1?
Detailed event log:
2009-11-03 06:00 AM: Backup succeeded successfully via time machine on my time capsule
2009-11-03 11:00 AM: Original laptop was broken. (Screen didn't work anymore)
2009-11-03 03:00 PM: Got a temporary new Macbook Pro from my System Administrator.
2009-11-03 09:00 PM: Successfully restored complete system on new temporary macbook using time machine with data of my time capsule. Everything looked the same (login image, installed applications, etc...). But when I tried to start Mail.app it gave me the above message.
Can someone help me with this???
Kind Regards,
Niels

I've seen two possible solutions to this:
1. Easier, but less likely to work - try to start mail from the Finder, rather than the Dock. If it works, replace the Dock Mail with the Finder one.
2. More probably the solution: download and reinstall the 10.6.1 combo update. I know you shouldn't need to after a TM restore but ...

Restoring Mail from Time Machine

Mail on my MacBook Air hung last night (I did a reply/send and then went to bed) and when I returned this morning, it was still sending. I tried a normal quit but it wouldn't quit. After waiting a while (something like 30 min) and it was still displaying the spinning ball, I decided to do a force quit (it didn't display the "not responding" so decided wait another 30 min)...finally did a force quit (and generated the report for Apple). I then did a permissions repair (just incase) and restarted the computer. When I attempted to open Mail, the icon in Dock indicates that it is open but no windows open. I did this repeatedly but to no avail.
I then opened Time Machine and backup are all there so I canceled TM and did an Option>Go>Library and opened Time Machine again. Only this time, TM displays "Now" but won't let me go back in time to a date when Mail was working.
Am I doing this correctly? Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks.

Thanks Eric. When I click on Mail in the Dock, it indicates that it is open (little pointer underneath) but Mail does not appear in the Menu bar above. Here a couple of Grab screen shots. The first one is a pop up when I click Mail in the Dock.
The second is what I see when I do a force quit (indicating that Mail is not responding)

Restoring Mail from Time Machine onto a different Macbook

My 2008 MBP died given the well known NVidia video card problem. Since Apple called my MBP an "antique" and any service or warranty due to the video card issue is expired, I'm left with a heavy paperweight.
I'm not in a position to buy a new MBP currently but I'd like to at least restore my Mail archives and folders from Time Machine onto my Mail on my 2011 MBA. Can I get some tips on the best way to do this?

You could restore your mails from TimeMachine back up with Migration Assistant.

Status report time machine backup by e-mail

Hello,
i'm using Leopard server (workgroup mode) and want to know if there is a way to get a time machine backup status report by e-mail
It's important for us to know every day if time machine was able to backup ok or if there are problems.
thanks for suggestions
Marco

Although you can restore messages from a Time Machine snapshot within the Mail application, it generally won't work with messages that were saved by an older version of Mail. In that case, you have to use an alternative method.
Triple-click the line below to select it:
~/Library/Mail/V2
Right-click or control-click the highlighted line and select
Services ▹ Reveal
from the contextual menu.* A Finder window should open with a folder selected. Inside that folder are subfolders representing your Mail accounts. The names refer to the email addresses you use. Decide which ones you want to restore messages from.
Enter Time Machine and scroll back to the snapshot you want. Select the account folders you want and then select Restore ... to... from the action menu (gear icon) in the toolbar of the snapshot window. Restore the folders to the Desktop, not to their original location.
From the Mail menu bar, select
File ▹ Import Mailboxes...
Import from the mailboxes in the folders you restored to the Desktop. The imported messages will appear in a new mailbox. Move the ones you want to keep wherever you like and delete the rest. Then delete the folders on the Desktop.
*If you don't see the contextual menu item, copy the selected text to the Clipboard (command-C). In the Finder, select
Go ▹ Go to Folder...
from the menu bar, paste into the box that opens (command-V). You won't see what you pasted because a line break is included. Press return.

Problems opening ical/iphoto/mail etc after restoring from time machine

hello everybody, hope you can help me!!!
Problem...
I got a new HardDisk installed in my Macbook from 2006.
I made sure all the software was up to date an made a full backup on Time Machine before bringing it to the Mac Store.
Back home i plugged it in and put the Snow Leopard installation disk, choose installation, chose my preferred language, selected Utilities > Restore System from Backup... and after one hour my laptop restarted and seemed normal.
Seemed.
I cannot open:
Mail, Ical, software update, Itunes, Iphoto etc etc. GGGRRRR!!!
All my applications don't work?!?!!
It gives the yellow triangle with the exclamation mark saying:
".. can't be opened because there is a problem. Ask the developer for information with this version on Mac OS X, You might have to install the application again."
What do I do now??

Thank you for your answer!
It looks like that, because it mentions "this version of mac OS x".
The Time Machine backup was made half an hour before I took it to the shop so I guess it was up to date with 10.6.3 (yesterday they released 10.6.4 so that one
I don't have. My other mac backsup with that version allready)
No, I installed with the Snow Leopard disk (i asked the guy in the store, he told me NOT to use the old disks which are 10.4.8).
What I guess you tell me to do is empty my HD again, than install with the original disks and than upgrade till "today" and than try to recover my last TM backup?
Or any other solutions?

Safari won't open. Firefox disappeared, only question mark. Mail doesn't have content. Time Machine won't turn on because sparse bundle is in use. Please help.

I had this issue about a month in a half ago and it was fixed by a local technician. I no longer have access to him and I really need some help. The issues are as follows:
Safari will not open.
Firefox disappeared. No icon, just a question mark in it's place.
When I open mail it shows I have new messages but the content is blank.
Time Machine cannot turn on because sparse bundle is in use.
New files that were made are no longer available. It's almost as if the computer jumped back in time.
The Mac Mini is running Mavericks 10.9.5

I'll assume that you have some way of connecting to this website from the affected machine. If not, ask for other instructions.
Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the icon grid.
The title of the Console window should be All Messages. If it isn't, select
SYSTEM LOG QUERIES ▹ All Messages
from the log list on the left. If you don't see that list, select
View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar at the top of the screen. Click the Clear Display icon in the toolbar. Then try to launch Safari. Select any messages that appear in the Console window. Copy them to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Paste into a reply to this message by pressing command-V.
The log contains a vast amount of information, almost all of which is irrelevant to solving any particular problem. When posting a log extract, be selective. A few dozen lines are almost always more than enough.
Please don't indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
Please don't post screenshots of log messages—post the text.
Some private information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Anonymize before posting.

How do I find an e-mail in my Time Machine back-up?

i'm looking for a draft e-mail in mac mail from a time machine back-up....where can i find that?
i see the mail application but cannot see specific e-mails.
please help!
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