Move AppleMail mail folders from one account to another

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Move AppleMail mail folders from one account to another

I want to suppress an old email-address, where I have stored all many, many mails in many folders. Unfortunately, I don't succeed in just dragging-dropping the folders (with its subfolders) into the new account in Apple Mail. Sometimes it seems to work a little bit, but most often not. It just doesn't do anything.

Any hints how I can succeed in moving the entire stock of folders to another account?

Thanks a lot.

MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 10.13

Posted on Jul 22, 2021 5:03 AM

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luftikus143 Author

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Jul 22, 2021 8:50 AM in response to BDAqua

Hmm, seems to work now. Folder by folder, and not all together. But I realized that when dragging the folder to the new place, it actually dropped it »into« another folder, and not at the same level.

Thanks for the suggestions!

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BDAqua

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Jul 22, 2021 7:36 AM in response to luftikus143

I'd ry copying the first, moving implies that the IMAP Servers can see each others accounts, which they cannot.

Try 1 or2 folders at a time.

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BDAqua

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Jul 22, 2021 7:06 AM in response to luftikus143

Have you made new On My Mac mailboxes to Copy them to?

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luftikus143 Author

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Jul 22, 2021 7:15 AM in response to BDAqua

No, I created another (IMAP) account and tried to move from the old to the new account. But hardly anything happened. I thought it should be possible to select the ~20 folders and move them to the new account, but only 1.5 folders were copied. And when I try it again, one by one, it hardly works.

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BDAqua

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Jul 22, 2021 8:53 AM in response to luftikus143

Good work, great to hear, take care my friend. :)

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Move AppleMail mail folders from one account to another

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