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- Oct 21, 2009 Hi, after using Gmail through a browser for the last few years, I decided recently to switch to using OSX's Mail app so I could manage my Gmail account, and also my website email account in one program. After a bit of reading I decided to setup my Gmail using Imap, as keeping the online version and the local version synced makes perfect sense.
Each account folder contains multiple sub-folders for your Mac Mail folders such as Inbox, Sent Items etc. The folder called Mailboxes is the main storage for your emails. You should copy this folder including all subfolders and files inside to the Windows PC and use it as the Source Folder for the Mac Mail to Outlook Converter. Jun 04, 2020 Mail knows most of the settings an iCloud mail account needs, so you don't need to search for server names to get iCloud mail up and running. Check your internet connection. Your device might have lost its connection to the internet, or your internet.
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Did you ever try dropping into the terminal and changing permissions there?
something like 'sudo chown username mailBox'
What you need to do is find out what your new UID (User ID) is. Not your username but the number your Mac assigned to your username. There are a bunch of ways to do that but a simple way is to create a file then list the file to find out who owns it.
In the terminal touch a file
touch foo
Now list it using the '-n' flag
ls -aln foo
You should see somthing like this:
-rw-r--r-- 1 501 0 0 Jan 22 07:23 foo
In this case the UID of the created file is '501' and the group ID (GID) is '0' Now all you need to do is change the ownership of the old mail directory.
Make sure to use the '-R' to rucursively change ownership and use the UID and GID from above:
sudo chown -R 501:0 foo
This will change both the owner and group of the dirctory to you. Good Luck!
I ran into a problem where my inbox was set as read-only, but it wasn't a problem with the changed user name. Somehow the extended attributes got set as follows:
0 drwx------+ 4 user group 136 Dec 24 13:54:21 2008 INBOX.mbox 0: group:everyone deny add_file,delete,add_subdirectory,delete_child,writeattr,writeextattr,chown
Run the following command to get rid of the attributes:
% chmod -a# 0 INBOX.mbox/
And then make sure you have complete access by doing:
Mac Mail Search Options
chmod u+rwx INBOX.mbox/
Maybe this will help someone else with the same problem as me and is doing a Google search.
Mail User Guide
Use Mailbox Behaviors preferences in Mail to change where draft, sent, junk, deleted, and archived messages for an email account are stored.
To change these preferences in the Mail app on your Mac, choose Mail > Preferences, click Accounts, then click Mailbox Behaviors.
Macos Mail Search Tips
Note: Mail stores messages in the mailbox you specify for each option.
If you select a mailbox on the mail server, the messages are available when you use your email account on another computer. Mail selects the best mailbox for your account; before choosing a different server mailbox, check with your email account provider.
If you select an On My Mac mailbox, the messages are stored on your Mac and are available only there.
The settings you see vary depending on your account type.
Option | Description |
|---|---|
Drafts Mailbox | Select a mailbox on the mail server or on your Mac to store draft messages. This option is available only for IMAP accounts. |
Sent Mailbox | Select a mailbox on the mail server or on your Mac to store sent messages. This option is available only for IMAP accounts. |
Junk Mailbox | Select a mailbox on the mail server or on your Mac to store junk messages. This option is available only for IMAP accounts. Note: Select this option on each Mac where you’ll use your account, to avoid having two Junk mailboxes in the Mail sidebar. |
Erase junk messages | Mail automatically deletes junk messages at the specified time. Select a setting other than Never to avoid exceeding storage limits set by your email account provider. |
Trash Mailbox | Select a mailbox on the mail server or on your Mac to store deleted messages, or choose None (deleted messages are removed and aren’t available in the Trash mailbox). This option is available only for IMAP accounts. |
Erase deleted messages | Mail erases deleted messages at the specified time. Select a setting other than Never to avoid exceeding storage limits set by your email account provider. If you selected None for Trash Mailbox, you can have Mail permanently delete messages automatically. If your email account provider sets up the server to delete older messages, the messages are deleted regardless of how you change this option. |
Archive Mailbox | Select a mailbox on the mail server to store archived messages. |
If you use an Exchange account, you can choose to store draft, sent, junk, and deleted messages on the server, and when to erase junk and deleted messages.