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CaptainHaddock · May 2, 2005, 03:47 PM

Has Mail 2.0 actually imported anyone's mail correctly, without extra fiddling? I've seen so many bug threads, I'd like to know if that's just an occasional problem, or if it happens to each and every person before I upgrade.

My own Mail configuration isn't too complex - four POP inboxes and two extra folders (one for archives, one for important email).

ManOfSteal · May 2, 2005, 03:49 PM

Yes, mine went flawless with a little over 20,000 messages in many different folders and accounts.

mdc · May 2, 2005, 03:55 PM

all 5,000 or so of mine came through just fine.

nonhuman · May 2, 2005, 04:21 PM

Yep, I've had no problems whatsoever.

My dad on the other hand had all sorts of problems with Mail. Not so much that it didn't import his messages, but that he couldn't send messages, type anything, the buttons didn't work &c. Turned out to be a conflict with Cocoa Aspell or something.

analogika · May 2, 2005, 04:25 PM

Fine here.

andretan · May 2, 2005, 04:28 PM

I think mine's fine.

Did an archive and install.

CaptainHaddock · May 2, 2005, 04:35 PM

Thanks guys, you've eased my fears somewhat.

Hi I'm Ben · May 2, 2005, 04:52 PM

Like gravy!

DoctorW · May 2, 2005, 06:09 PM

No problems here. In fact, it even fixed some weird dates on received messages.

DavidHossack · May 2, 2005, 07:12 PM

yep- all 1198 messages in my inbox still present.

andretan · May 2, 2005, 09:22 PM

Just my thoughts:

Pros:
+ remembers the spacing I set for the different headers (eg; sender, date, subject, size)
+ able to set priority of e-mail (urgent/high, normal, low)
+ no drawers
+ cleaner look

Cons:
- no status bar <-- what were the developers smoking?!
(-) icons are not well-loved by some

Cadaver · May 2, 2005, 09:42 PM

No problem here... ~1,000 emails over three accounts.

JHromadka · May 2, 2005, 09:48 PM

No problems here either for 5 different accounts.

jaxxe · May 2, 2005, 11:30 PM

Yep, all good here, on all three machines.
Tiger rocks, then some. Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow. Only gets better from here.
-jaxxe

Fillman · May 3, 2005, 12:47 AM

I had lots of grief due to a pre-installed JunkMatcher bundle. I could connect to our company Exchange server and to .Mac and two other pop accounts but I couldn't see any emails. When I trashed the bundle, the update and import process went ahead without any problem. All 1.3Gb of mail in all accounts synchronised perfectly.

Happy now but it took me 2 hours to solve the problem from another message in this forum (Thanks Krypton).

CaptainHaddock · May 3, 2005, 02:50 AM

Yeah, it sounds like add-ons are responsible in at least some of the problem instances.

Thanks for all the continuing responses, I'm not so scared about fighting with Mail when Tiger arrives (grr, it should have come today but sat in some Fedex warehouse all day long instead).

Randman · May 3, 2005, 03:15 AM

No problems when I installed Tiger on two Macs for me and the s/o.

crazeazn · May 3, 2005, 03:56 AM

no problems i didnt do the archive reinstll i just dumped as mbox

ctbritt · May 3, 2005, 05:24 AM

well, I'm having some trouble. I did a backup of my mail settings before installing, and now Mail 2.0 keeps wanting to import. And it's taking oodles of disk space. (I have 4GB of mail data) What's going on, I wonder? It keeps hanging on the import.

Randman · May 3, 2005, 05:34 AM

Hmm, you might try creating a new account and entering the data again, then going through the route to see if things work better. Maybe trash the plist and start all over again with the mail import since you have a backup.

BZ · May 3, 2005, 05:46 AM

Over 50,000 messages... no problems.

BZ

sideus · May 3, 2005, 06:18 AM

Just fine.

timmerk · May 3, 2005, 06:56 AM

mine was perfect - about 5000 emails and lots of folders and rules

typoon · May 3, 2005, 11:20 AM

mine was perfect too. It imported all 1700 of my messages

TC · May 3, 2005, 12:04 PM

Did everyone else have to delete the files which mail left behind after import themselves?
The original mbox files which mail 1.0 used where left + leaving them there was doubling the space mail needed to be using.

There where also some other files I deleted as I could see by the dates that Mail 2.0 wasn't using them. Anyone else have this or did Mail clean up after itself for you.

I'm impressed with how versatile the new structure is. I had mail lock up on me while moving messages between mailboxes as I ran out of disk space. When I tried to delete some messages to sort things out I ended up with extra messages in one mailbox. I was able to go into the finder and delete the extra messages and when I asked mail to rebuild that mailbox it was all fine at then end. I feel much happier with seperate files for each mail than 1 huge file for each mailbox.

BZ · May 3, 2005, 12:10 PM

I just noticed those files today. I can't figure out why they are there at all unless Tiger is using both the files system (1 file per email) and the MBOX format at the same time.

BZ

TheTraveller · May 3, 2005, 06:09 PM

Nope...Mail ate a bunch of my messages, and I'm now trying to figure out how to get them back. Yes, I have a backup of the old mail, but if it re-imports it the wrong way every time, I'm not sure how much good that's going to do me.

analogika · May 3, 2005, 09:41 PM

about 5000 messages on my second machine in dozens of sub-folders and stuff.

All there, all happy.

CaptainHaddock · May 3, 2005, 11:34 PM

Woot! Tiger arrived late this afternoon, and after a flawless upgrade, Mail 2.0 imported my mail without a hitch.

ManOfSteal · May 3, 2005, 11:35 PM

Originally Posted by CaptainHaddock

Woot! Tiger arrived late this afternoon, and after a flawless upgrade, Mail 2.0 imported my mail without a hitch.

rnwjr · May 3, 2005, 11:59 PM

I have had mail problems since the Tiger install... Each time I send or delete the app shuts down and wants to send a message to Apple... Not sure what to do... Any suggestions????

Recto Bold · May 4, 2005, 04:37 AM

Mine imported from Entourage OK (Around 6000 Messages). The only nightmare was that the flagged status of all the messages was lost.

AppleOptionFour · May 4, 2005, 10:07 AM

Originally Posted by TheTraveller

Nope...Mail ate a bunch of my messages, and I'm now trying to figure out how to get them back. Yes, I have a backup of the old mail, but if it re-imports it the wrong way every time, I'm not sure how much good that's going to do me.

Mine's doing the same.

I am importing by selecting the Mail.app as the import option and then selecting the ~/Library/Mail/ folder from my backup.

Will selecting "other" as the import option change anything? Ill try this when I get home.

proton · May 4, 2005, 10:35 AM

172,000 messages imported no problem.

Interestingly, Mail 2.0 leaves the mbox file inside your mailboxes (they're packages) as well as all the extracted messages. This meant it ended up using about double the disk space to before. Deleting those mbox files causes no problems.

- proton

rnwjr · May 4, 2005, 11:49 AM

I updated PGP then uninstalled it and now everything works fine.....

AppleOptionFour · May 5, 2005, 12:28 PM

Mail 2.0 hates the old mbox way of doing things. So here is what I did to get the mail from my old user folder to Tiger Mail.

Source of mbox files: Backup of old user folder. (~/Library/Mail/ or ~/Library/Mail/Mailboxes)

Method:

1. Copy the mbox files to a system using panther (more specifically the old version of mail)

2. Import the mbox files to the old mail program (I used 1.3)

3. Use the IMAP capability of my mail account to copy the messages in to a folder I called "Tiger Mail Xfer" (Just FYI)

4. Open up your Tiger Mail (v2.0) and copy the messages back from your IMAP account to a folder you created "On my Mac." I called this one "Archive Import."

5. Grin at how you out smarted the computer.

**Note: Tiger Mail was a little finicky when copying back to the Archive Import. Ensure that your messages actually copied before you delete the IMAP folder. If they didnt copy, simply do a select all in the IMAP folder and drag them to the "Archive Import"