e-mail backup

e-coli

macrumors 68000

Original poster

• Aug 24, 2002

• #1

Anybody know how to back up my email in OS X? I'm using Mail.app.

I want to be able to keep my email boxes the same (emails filed in specific folders, same emails still in my inbox, etc.)

I'm installing jaguar, but i don't want it to interrupt my email system.

thanks!

 

alex_ant

macrumors 68020

• Aug 24, 2002

• #2

Mail stores all that stuff in ~/Library/Mail, where "~" is your home directory. So if you just backed up that directory, you would be fine.

 

cleo

macrumors 65816

• Aug 24, 2002

• #3

Drag each folder/mailbox to the desktop. It'll become an "mbox" that you can then save to your iDisk or however you're backing up, then just drag it back into mail.app after you've upgraded.

 

e-coli

macrumors 68000

Original poster

• Aug 24, 2002

• #4

Hey, thanks! I appreciate it. 🙂

 

redAPPLE

macrumors 68030

• Oct 3, 2002

• #5

that is interesting.

i also wanted to know about that.

does anyone know, how to backup m$ entourage emailaccounts, emails, schedules(?)?

or restore them, for that matter...