Getting all my mail back on SL

[MythicFrost]

Ok, I had Leopard, I did a clean install to Snow Leopard, I am unable to use time machine to restore the mail.

Can I just re-add the accounts and it will download ALL the mail for the life time of those accounts?

Kind Regards

 

[aristobrat]

If the mail is still on the server, it should be able to redownload it.

I did a clean install as well. On Snow Leopard, I closed Mail.app, and then copied /Users/me/Library/Mail from the backup of my old machine over to my Snow Leopard machine. Next time I opened Mail.app, my old accounts + emails were all there.

 

[MythicFrost]

I did a clean install as well. On Snow Leopard, I closed Mail.app, and then copied /Users/me/Library/Mail from the backup of my old machine over to my Snow Leopard machine. Next time I opened Mail.app, my old accounts + emails were all there.

I want to do that, I made a backup of that folder but it doesn't seem to work for me!

Kind Regards

 

[aristobrat]

Hmmm, weird.

Is it giving you any particular error?

 

[MythicFrost]

Nope, It's not.

 

[aristobrat]

If quitting Mail.app, and copying over both the plist and the Library/Mail folder (and subfolders) doesn't work, I'm not sure what the next step would be.

I wonder if you get free AppleCare with the Snow Leopard purchase?!

 

[MythicFrost]

You do get 90 days free phone support for the OS

However I've got it working with the plist file over
Thanks!!!!!

Kind Regards