If you are coming from another email host and would like to bring your mail with you, Mac Mail makes it fairly easy to back up and import all your mail.
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Export mailboxes
- Click the Mail app on your Mac to open up the application. In the top toolbar, you will see "Mailbox"; select this. From the drop-down, you will be see "Export Mailbox", click on this.
2. Choose a folder or create a new folder to export your mailbox to. Then click "Choose".
3. Mail exports the mailboxes as .mbox packages. If you previously exported a mailbox, Mail doesn’t overwrite the existing .mbox file; it creates a new .mbox file, such as My Mailbox 3.mbox.
Import mailboxes
- Click the Mail app on your Mac to open up the application. In the top toolbar, you will see "File"; select this. From the drop-down, you will see "Import Mailboxes", select this.
2. Select a source in the list, read the information that appears below the list, then click Continue.
- If you’re importing a mailbox exported from Mail or a folder in the ~/Library/Mail/V6 folder on another Mac, select Apple Mail. To get to the Mail folder on a Mac, click the desktop to make sure you’re in the Finder, press and hold the Option key while you choose Go > Library, then click the Mail folder.
- If you’re importing messages from a Windows or UNIX computer, select “Files in mbox format,” then locate the folder containing the files.
3. Reorganize the imported messages, if you like.
- The messages are in a new mailbox called Import in the Mail sidebar. You can drag folders and messages from the Import mailbox to new or existing mailboxes, then delete the Import mailbox.
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