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New iMac 2012 continued multiple questions
#11
You need an apple account for messages.

Where do you have the contacts at the moment?
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#12
Have an apple account - not a problem.

I think I would like to copy all my old messages (texts and SMS) from my other iMac (two) and install it on my iMac (three).

I am surprised there is not any info on this via google.

My be pretty easy - one of the files in the library in messages?

Has anyone does this before?

Matthew
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#13
Spoke to soon.

My office email did not download all of my sent files with IMAP.

Just the incoming.

Any thoughts?

Matthew
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#14
Onamuji wrote:
"Sent" mail, like most of your POP messages, will only reside on the computer that you used to send the messages from. That's how POP works. Messages are not saved on the server or synced with other devices. With the default settings, as soon as a message is received on or sent from your Mac, it is deleted from the server.

(You can mess with POP settings to save your messages in your Inbox even after they are downloaded to your Mac, but this is a kludge that seldom works well in the long run.)

If you want your entire mail archive on the new Mac and you're not "migrating" the entire old user account or then you'll have to export your old mail from your old Mac and import it on the new Mac.
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#15
I have been experimenting and I was able to just export the sent email only and then imported it.

As you said it showed up under the "on my mac"

Then I went a step further and selected all the sent emails and dragged them into the sent folder and they all copied.

Thats probably a long way around but I think it will work.
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#16
Not really going as I had hoped.

There are 7,128 sent emails that I need.

Now I am down to copying them one month at a time from the "on my mac" area to the sent file.
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#17
This is more difficult that it should be.
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