If you backed up your mailboxes using Mac OS X 10.2 or later, you can import your mailboxes into Mail via one of two methods:
Method 1
Figure 1 Choose Mail for Mac OS X or Standard mbox files
Method 2
Note: This method can only be done if you have reinstalled Mac OS X 10.2 and have not configured Mail.
Method 1
- 1. Open the Mail application.
2. Choose Import Mailboxes from the File menu.
3. Choose either Mail for Mac OS X or Standard mbox files depending on the method you used to back up (Figure 1)
4. Navigate to the location of your backed up mailboxes and select the folder where the backup of your mailbox is located.
5. Mail will list all of the available mailboxes that can be imported from the selected directory. Check the mailboxes to import, and click the forward button to import the mailboxes.
Figure 1 Choose Mail for Mac OS X or Standard mbox files
Method 2
Note: This method can only be done if you have reinstalled Mac OS X 10.2 and have not configured Mail.
- 1. Drag the backup mailboxes to the Users home mail folder (~/Library/Mail).
2. Drag your old Mail preferences file "com.apple.mail.plist" that was part of your backup, into the Users preferences folder (~/Library/Preferences).