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Mac Forum / General / Networking / September 2005saving and moving Mail messages to new machine
A friend just bought a new G5 and wants to retrieve his old Mail messages from a G4 Mac with Jaguar on it. What's the easiest (or safest) way of doing this. He has an external drive he can use as an intermediary device. Or can he simply connect both machines via FireWire and import his old Mail messages into Tiger? He has a couple of thousand messsages. robert > A friend just bought a new G5 and wants to retrieve his old Mail > messages from a G4 Mac with Jaguar on it. What's the easiest (or [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > Or can he simply connect both machines via FireWire and import his > old Mail messages into Tiger? He has a couple of thousand messsages. The computer comes with a migration assistant application; it's in the Utilities folder. He would need to connect the computers via firewire, or put the files on an external hard drive (or possibly a CD or DVD).  SignatureStop Mad Cowboy Disease: Impeach the son of a Bush. Thanks, Does the migration assistant allow you to specify which applications or data to migrate over? I read somewhere that it was an all or nothing deal. > > A friend just bought a new G5 and wants to retrieve his old Mail > > messages from a G4 Mac with Jaguar on it. What's the easiest (or [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > Utilities folder. He would need to connect the computers via firewire, > or put the files on an external hard drive (or possibly a CD or DVD). > Does the migration assistant allow you to specify which applications > or data to migrate over? I read somewhere that it was an all or > nothing deal. I don't know; I've never used it. SignatureStop Mad Cowboy Disease: Impeach the son of a Bush. > A friend just bought a new G5 and wants to retrieve his old Mail > messages from a G4 Mac with Jaguar on it. What's the easiest (or safest) > way of doing this. He has an external drive he can use as an You can do it by moving files. I recommend, however, having or getting an IMAP based mail account,, mount that account in both machines, move all your mail to the IMAP account. And then just leave it in IMAP. By magic, all your mail is available on *all* of your computers. No import/export crap ever again. I personally use Fastmail.fm (gives 2GB storage) Apple has just expanded the storage in their .mac IMAP account to 1GB. There are many others. SignaturePlain Bread alone for e-mail, thanks. The rest gets trashed. No HTML in E-Mail! -- http://www.expita.com/nomime.html Are you posting responses that are easy for others to follow? http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/2000/06/14/quoting The IMAP account sounds like a nice idea. AFAIK, you have to pay for those services. .Mac is something like $100 a year, isn't it? > > A friend just bought a new G5 and wants to retrieve his old Mail > > messages from a G4 Mac with Jaguar on it. What's the easiest (or safest) [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > There are many others. > The IMAP account sounds like a nice idea. AFAIK, you have to pay for > those services. .Mac is something like $100 a year, isn't it? If you're getting it just for the IMAP, .mac is very expensive. If you will be using other .mac services, it may make sense. If all you want is IMAP, go to Fastmail.fm (which I use and recommend) or Runbox.com or any of several others. For a decent sized IMAP accounts, you will have to pay some money, but I've found that in mail services, you get what you pay for. The 2gb Fastmail account is like $40/yr, or cheaper for longer periods, and can host domain names directly, too. The ability to see my entire mail store via secure web page when I'm not at my computer is a huge bonus, but even without that, it's well worth it - all of my mail is accessible from all of my computers - even from more than one mail program on the same computer - I use Thunderbird sometimes and Mail.app sometimes. SignaturePlain Bread alone for e-mail, thanks. The rest gets trashed. No HTML in E-Mail! -- http://www.expita.com/nomime.html Are you posting responses that are easy for others to follow? http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/2000/06/14/quoting |
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