Trouble importing mail

My hard drive crashed last week, and Apple replaced my harddrive. I am now trying to restore my mail from the back-up on my external harddrive. I have tried the Import Mailboxes feature and gone to the appropriate Library file on the external hard drive, and for some reason, once that is done, I can only see some of my messages (through 9/20/06). However, if I actually go to the mailbox file on the external hard drive, then I can double click on the individual emlx files in that folder and open them without a problem. All the individual emlx files are there, including the ones from 9/20/06-2/15/07 (when the computer crashed). Clearly, something is wrong with the structure of my backup folder. Is there anyway to get these e-mails back into the Mail application? It's really annoying to have to click on them one by one!

The Import Mailboxes function in Mail 2.x is broken. The problem usually manifests when converting Mail 1.x mailboxes to the new format used by Mail 2.x, but may also happen when importing mailboxes that already are (and have always been) in the Mail 2.x .emlx format.
I could understand it if there was something wrong with one or more of the files being imported, Mail said that it couldn’t import them and reported what the problem was. Unfortunately, that’s not what happens. What happens is that this feature is utterly broken and Mail simply quits importing if it chokes on something, without reporting that something went wrong.
This problem is not to be confused with the much more common problem of the user doing something wrong, in which case Mail does complain -- usually saying that “No valid Mail for Mac OS X files were found” because the user selected the wrong folder.
So let’s clarify first what is it exactly that you’re doing to import those mailboxes. You should do File > Import Mailboxes, choose Mail for Mac OS X, click Continue, then select the folder that contains the mailboxes to be imported (i.e. the folder where the *.mbox folders to be imported reside), not the *.mbox folders themselves. Is that what you’re doing?
BTW, Info.plist may or may not be present and has no bearing on this. For locally stored mailboxes, that file just keeps track of the column used to sort messages in the mailbox, whether the order is ascending or descending, and whether messages are organized by thread.

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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 the line below on this page to select it:
~/Library/Mail/V2/MailData/Envelope Index
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), then press return.
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Log out and log back in. Relaunch Mail. It should prompt you to re-import your messages. You may get a warning that the index is corrupt and that Mail has to quit. Click OK.
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Hello Oral History.
Mail crashes (i.e. quits unexpectedly) even if you select the wrong folder? Don’t you even get a “No valid Mail for Mac OS X files were found” error message in those cases?
There could be more than one thing amiss here. Does Mail otherwise work fine on the Intel iMac? In particular, can you create custom “On My Mac” mailboxes in Mail by means of Mailbox > New Mailbox or does Mail complain with some error message when you try to do that?
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The Repair functions of Disk Utility: what's it all about?
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ls -1 /Library/InputManagers /Library/Mail/Bundles ~/Library/InputManagers ~/Library/Mail/Bundles
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I wanted to save all of my Sent mail so I archived and saved as "Sent Messages.mbox"
When I went to import, everything seemed to go fine with the exception of how those emails are now displayed.
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Quit Mail. Force quit if necessary.
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Log out and log back in. Relaunch Mail. It should prompt you to re-import your messages. You may get a warning that the index is corrupt and that Mail has to quit. Click OK.
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☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the icon grid.
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Enter the name of the crashed application or process in the Filter text field. Select the messages from the time of the last crash, if any. Copy them to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Paste into a reply to this message by pressing command-V.
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In the Console window, look under User Diagnostic Reports (not "Diagnostic and Usage Messages") for crash reports related to the crashed process. The report name starts with the name of the process, and ends with ".crash". Select the most recent report and post the entire contents—again, the text, not a screenshot. I know the report is long. Please post all of it anyway.
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I found a fix!! Refer to this article regarding using Microsoft Exchange for Google accounts: http://www.zdnet.com/with-new-gmail-and-google-maps-ios-apps-the-iphone-5-is-cle arly-the-best-smartphone-available-7000008756/
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Hello. I have two devices and two accounts, so what i want is this:
I only want to store mail from both accounts in a remote place and copy most important mails to local folders.
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The first awkwardness I see is that there's no obvious format in which to store messages remotely such that you can work with them in an email client. It may be possible to set the "Local Directory" option in the account in Thunderbird to point at some remote folder (DropBox comes to mind) but I have never tried this and I'd be nervous about what happens if connection can't be made, or if you happened to access it from two different places simultaneously. The other concern is that mail stores get big, quickly, and you'd be forever uploading and downloading large (multi gigabyte) files. Thunderbird stores what looks like a folder containing many separate messages as one big file, so there's no simple opportunity for incremental changes to be up/down loaded.
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I use a gmail account pretty much as you have described; I copy or move messages to that account so they are visible in my phone, my tablet, my own laptop and my works computer. It's free, and it's "in the cloud"; the only reservation I have is its privacy. There are other providers (e.g. 1&1/gmx) who don't seem to have the data collection fetish that google thrives on.
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hi guys,
I'm adding my yahoo mail account into Mac Mail recently, and I have got around 5000 mails in my yahoo account.
When I succesffuly added the yahoo account in Mac Mail, the system imports all mails to Mac (starting from very beginining)
It is too much for me and spending a lot of time and data. Actually I don't need all of them, I just want to get 50 of the latest mail from yahoo.
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Could anyone help.??

Hi,
In MN22 go to the Commuunication tab and there put the desired number of copies to be output like 2 or 3 against the field "Number of Messages" and save.This will get the desired result.
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Welcome to the Apple Discussions. What do you have set in the System/CDs and DVDs preferences to do when a disk is inserted? If the option is not set to the Finder do so and see if that will make any difference.
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Do you Twango?
TIP: For insurance against the iPhoto database corruption that many users have experienced I recommend making a backup copy of the Library6.iPhoto database file and keep it current. If problems crop up where iPhoto suddenly can't see any photos or thinks there are no photos in the library, replacing the working Library6.iPhoto file with the backup will often get the library back. By keeping it current I mean backup after each import and/or any serious editing or work on books, slideshows, calendars, cards, etc. That insures that if a problem pops up and you do need to replace the database file, you'll retain all those efforts. It doesn't take long to make the backup and it's good insurance.
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Last night I screwed up my new iMac & had to restore entire system from backup. After many hours & help from the Time Machine forum, I was able to restore everything except my emails. I do have all my folders under “On my Mac/ imported” But they are all empty. I’ve been on with Apple support over 1.5 hours (mostly on hold.) Multiple times opening Mail & opening TM & restoring the date/time I wanted & also trying an hour earlier. --No luck.
Strangely,as soon as I open TM (b4 I restore anything) when it says “Today-Now” at the bottom of the screen --My Mail program SEEMS restored to yesterday with all my missing mail in all the correct folders! But as I explained, doing restore, even rebooting does not work. The mail immediately returns to the empty folder version!
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Please help!
Thanks,
Steve

This was finally solved by 2nd level Apple tech support. You can read my other post under TM. “Help new Mac user restore entire system”
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While on hold (forever) I did check the mail folder (Macintosh HD/Users/<user name>/library/Mail) & saw many sub folders were over 100 MB so, I suspected my “missing” mail was actually there. I was on hold 1 3/4 hours waiting for an Apple tech support “Specialist.” He solved it but, it took him 40 minutes. 1st trying a simple open Mail & go into TM & try Restore from the date I wanted. Didn’t work. Then going to the mail folder (Macintosh HD/Users/<user name>/library/Mail) & selecting it & opening TM & again try to restore that folder to the date I wanted. Again, no luck. He then tried to go into Preferences & we did several things (many of which I cannot recall exactly) with com.apple.mail.plist & I think with another file. None worked.
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