Transferring Mail App Preferences

I just got a new MacBook Air. I have three machines I'm on frequently. What I want to do is this: transfer all my Preferences (from my local Mail software, not from my iCloud online)--specifically signatures and rules--to my new Air without manually having to recreate them in the Mail program on my new MacBook Air. Is it the username/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail/Data/Library/Preferences file that I need to copy from another of my machines (to place in my Air to replace the new machine's same file)? Does that file contain what I'm looking for, and will trashing that file on my new machine and placing the "old" file from another of my machines in its place on the new Air) work? Thanks!

When I attempt to open Mail.app Preferences, the app freezes
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hi all,
hopefully this will give you enuff info to figure out what to do (if anything), but i urge you to read thru the links below to see if you are experiencing the same issues or not, & if so, what to do about them.
THE BACKGROUND INFO:
i've been using the Mac's Mail.app pretty exclusively since its inception, and with Gmail's IMAP option since mid-2009. the settings have always stayed & worked well...
• on Gmail.com > Settings > Forwarding & POP/IMAP >
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    - Folder Size Not Limited
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• also in Mail.app > Preferences > Accounts > Advanced >
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• and lastly in Mail.app >
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...and i've always kept 'local' mailbox folders for archiving old emails in the "On My Mac" section in addition to keeping more current emails for reference in the "Gmail" section.
THE INITIAL PROBLEM:
after upgrading my Mac to Mavericks OS 10.9, i started noticing that any email i would delete or move from my inbox kept re-appearing in my inbox after changing views (like going to another mailbox then back to the inbox).
of course this drove my OCD crazy, & thus began the research. i've read a LOT about this issue from official sources to user discussions and have pieced together a procedure that seems to be working (for the most part) for me.
THE RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS:
a lot of people, tek/industry people, & blogs are pointing to these webpages as good summaries of issues & fixes (yes, there are SO many more, but i personally found these to be the most helpful in my quest)...
          http://tidbits.com/article/14219
          http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2013/10/mavericks-issues-and-fixes/?viewall=true
          http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=1222267
          http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/making-gmail-and-os-x-mavericks-mail-play -well-together
THE DISCLAIMER:
of course, if you aren't greatly affected by the Mail/Gmail wonkiness, then it might be worth waiting another week or two (or 3 or 4...) & keep your eyes on further reports from these sites (links above or others you may like better) in case Apple &/or Google pushes an update to remedy the situation. likewise, if you do make these changes, it would still be a good idea (imho) to keep up'to'date in case such pushes do come out & affect these changes too. ugh ;-)
THE OUTCOME:
the below process, for me, has been SUCCESSFUL in every aspect except one...
THE LAST PROBLEM:
whenever i move a message from the gmail inbox (or any other gmail imap folder/label) to a local folder in the "On My Mac" section, it moves it just fine, but then it keeps a copy in the gmail "All Mail" folder/label, when i would want it deleted from gmail.
unlike when i "delete" a message, where gmail appropriately moves that message to the trash box, in this situation it simply strips the message of "any" label, and thusly it stays in the All Mail. so if anybody can amend this with a fix for that, we should be all set :-)
but aside from that last issue, the below procedure has brought back my Mail.app program to use Gmail as "I" believe it normally should work, and has always worked pre-Mavericks.
THE PROCEDURE (assuming all your settings are set like mine were as listed above):
go to gmail.com in Safari (or other web browser) > Log in > Settings > Labels > and check "Show in IMAP" for the "All Mail" system label (which was previously a no-no, but now a yes-yes).
also on that same page, you will need to UNcheck the "Show in IMAP" option for Drafts. and then slide over and for BOTH the Drafts & Spam labels, click the "show if unread" options.
then go to each & every one of your custom "Labels" (you know them as Mailbox Folders). they will all start with "[Gmail]/foldername". click on each and remove the "[Gmail]/" leaving ONLY your custom folder name.
once done, click on your Inbox to get you out of the settings area.
now you will need to go thru ALL of your folders/labels (i know... big ugh!) to fix the labels attached to all the emails inside them ;-)
click a folder/label to reveal all the emails inside it.
click the checkbox in the header row of buttons/options that will cause all emails on that page to be selected/checked.
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once you have, the sentence will change to "All ### conversations in "FolderName" are selected" - do NOT click the "Clear selection" link next to that.
next, click on the "Label As..." button in the header row of button/options - the icon looks like a price tag of sorts.
then in the resulting popup box that lists all your folders/labels, you will want to make sure ALL checkboxes are UNchecked EXCEPT the single folder/label that these emails are in. note: some of them may or may not have dashes instead of checkmarks in the boxes - you will need to click it to check it and then click it again to get it UNchecked & UNdashed.
after you've got only the one label checked that should be checked, then click the APPLY word at the bottom of that little popup box. note: if all the selected emails are labled correctly, then you won't see the "Apply" option & you can simply move on to the next folder.
if you get a dialog confirmation box pop up asking if you are sure you want to continue... click OK.
then WAIT! this may take a while depending on how many emails it's affecting and how fast/reliable your internet speed/connection is. when you see the "Loading..." notification at the very top of the page change to "All conversations have been removed from (and it lists them all)", then you can move on & do that same procedure (steps 5-13) to fix another folder/label.
WHEN DONE WITH ALL THAT, you can exit your browser.
now go to the Mail.app > Mail menu > Preferences > Accounts > Advanced > and remove the "[Gmail]" text from the "IMAP Path Prefix" field.
then go to the Mail.app > Mail menu > Preferences > Accounts > Mailbox Behaviors tab and if the Store Drafts on Server option is checked, UNcheck it.
then close the Mail.app Preferences window to get the option to SAVE that change!
now go to the Mailbox Menu > Synchronize > Gmail, in case it hasn't started doing that on its own.
then open the Window Menu > Activity, so you can see when it's done synchronizing. this may take a while if you've got a lot of mail. according to some, it took a day! so, just kick back & leave it alone till then.
THE END FOR NOW:
hopefully this helps other folks that were setup like me & want to keep it working that way. and yeah, again, if anybody knows how to fix the last problem described above, please let us know.
.peace.:.jason.

hi Dean Suhr,
i just went back & re-read my posts... i find no where that i said anything about dragging emails into the ALL MAIL folder. i mentioned the issues with dragging messages into "any other folder that i've created" from either the INBOX or "any other folder that i've created". it copies instead of moves the message. but ONLY Mac Mail does this. the iOS Mail app does NOT do this - it moves as it should move.
as far as what you said "who cares what Gmail says the labels are"... well... I do :-)
there are occasions where i need to utilize the web browser gmail interface, and i want it to be correctly synced.
i don't think it's unreasonable to want that, as that's how it's been for YEARS, till now, AND that's how it still is with iOS 7.
besides, what happens if i get a different device/computer and need to add the same account - i imagine it will not sync up correctly if gmail has labels on messages that it shouldn't.
fortunately for me, i don't have quite as many messages & accounts as you; it only takes aprox 30 minutes for mail to sync up after i started over with it.
.peace.:.jason.

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haavee:
Thanks for your reply on this thread.
And thanks for the confirmation: Yes, often difficult, and completely unworkable in some cases.
To my surprise, I've been able to find very few people reporting similiar observations. Very little about this issue at all on the web.
I looked for command-key variations on Format --> Make Plain Text, hoping for a block action, but none I tried was any different.
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I note you are happy with your solution, so I'll try see if a variation of it might help me.
Thanks,
h.2

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from the menu bar at the top of the screen.
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[Google Mail] / [Gmail] folder in Mail.app

Like others I'm trying to get rid of the [Google Mail] folder that shows in the folder list (you may have [Gmail]). This is only my tidy fetish rather than some kind of operational issue.
There's some strangeness involved:
Mail.app sometimes shows a sub folder to [Google Mail] called Starred but this has no mail in it - despite there being starred mail in the account. Starred mail only shows in the Flagged folder. **
In GMail's settings, I tried turning off the Starred label from showing in IMAP thinking that the [Google Mail] folder was only showing because it had a nested label. The Starred sub-folder disappeared but the folder [Google Mail] did not.
I have tried two work arounds that I found.
Firstly creating a label [Google Mail] then not showing it in IMAP (this is why I also tried hiding Starred from IMAP in case there was a nesting issue).
The other was setting 'Google Mail' as the IMAP Path Prefix in Mail.app preference. Whilst that got rid of the folder, it also hid all of my labels - these appear to be at the same level in the IMAP hierachy so setting the path via [Google Mail] hid the other labels from view.
I noted that with a label [Google Mail] visible in IMAP, the corresponding folder icon was grey. With the label hidden from IMAP or deleted, the icon is clear / white. Either way though, this doesn't change whether the [Google Mail] label/folder gets shown.
On top of all of this I have a more recently enabled account which does not show the [Google Mail] folder at all. The label and IMAP seetings are identical across the accounts. (Interestingly this account does show the Starred label as a folder at the same level as my other labels - but it is also empty with all starred mail for the account showing in Flagged. **)
Thank you for taking the time to read this far. Does anyone have any other ideas worth trying?
Andrew
** Just a note if you try hiding the Starred label in IMAP... Flag changes in client apps (Mail.app, Mail on iOS) will sync back to Gmail forcing changes in a mail's Star staus. BUT changes made in Gmail will not sync back to changes in the flag status in the client. This means that hiding Starred can quickly mean your flags and stars are out of sync across devices, apps and Gmail. Probably best not to turn it off.

I actually don't see that in my setup. But if it is really annoying you enough, I'd post it on the Gmail support forums.
http://mail.google.com/support/
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Cannot Delete my domain controlled mailbox in mail.app

Hi. I just got a Mac Server (Mac Mini). I set it up i plugged it into my network at home. For some reason, my iMac prompted me to setup ical and mail. Not knowing much about it, I just proceeded on with it. A mailbox appeared in my mail.app which i could not remove. I searched around and tried my best to remove it without avail. The mailbox name is
<my username>@CYC-MAC1.local
Problem is, I've reformatted my server and reinstalled the OS and so CYC-MAC1.local does not exist anymore.
How do i get rid of it? I tried
1) Deleting the com.apple.mail.plist file
2) Deleting the mailbox from mail.app preferences, but it just keeps coming back.
Not sure what else i can try. Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks!

Duh, I managed to solve it myself.
What I found out is that my ISP's DNS as well as invalid certificates were the most likely culprit.
What I did was go to System Preferences -> Network -> Click "Advanced..." for my Wi-Fi -> then selected the "DNS" tab.
For "DNS Servers" I added in Google's public DNS which is 8.8.8.8.
Once set, I started the Mail app and went into the preferences for the mailbox that had the issue. Immediately I received a prompt for the certificates. I then displayed the certificate and then set "Always Trust" for the certificate.
When done, it was all ok!

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So, this is kinda bizarre. None of my images in any emails show up in mail.app after i upgraded to Snow Leopard. This is despite that in mail.app preferences I have 'Display remote images in html email' selected. I've tried to unselect / select it, as well as trashing my com.apple.mail.plist and starting again to no avail.
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