Export Apple Mail to PST for Outlook (Mac & Windows) Apple Mail is a great email client for Mac users with almost any feature for your every emailing needs. But it doesn’t have any in-built feature to export Apple Mail to PST files, the native file used with Outlook Windows. Sep 07, 2017 Export mailboxes. Select one or more mailboxes, then choose Mailbox > Export Mailbox. Choose a folder or create a new folder, then click Choose. Mail exports the mailboxes as.mbox packages. If you previously exported a mailbox, Mail doesn’t overwrite the existing.mbox file; it creates a new.mbox file, such as My Mailbox 3.mbox.
I'm trying to export all emails from an account I have setup and mapped to Apple mail on my computer. There are 1200 emails.
The account is no longer active so i'm trying to export all the emails in the mailbox in apple mail to an.mbox file that I can import somewhere else. The problem is when I do an export of the mailbox and then import it somewhere, there are only 88 emails when there should be 1200+. Why is this only exporting some of the emails and how can I make it so it exports all of them? Ok, first lets get our numbers sorted out. Select the mail box (Inbox) you are trying to export, then select all messages and use the Mark as Unread.
Now look how many does it shows in that Mail box. Now the export should export all of them. Next is to do the Import Mail box to verify. Use the Import Mailboxes in the File menu then select the exported mbox file.
The count should be the same as export. Now you can delete the Import mail box that you no longer need. This is not to be confused with the Inbox on the server (from your email provider), which you can only access true Internet. Since your account is no longer active you can not get those messages from server anyway until you reactivate it, they might be still there for you to get them.
If you deleted the Internet email account then the game is over. In order to get more clarity, please specify what email provider were you using for that email. Thanks for the screen shots.
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First when you use Mark as Read, then go again now it has changed to Mark as Unread, it is a flip flop switch. Second, your mail Inbox shows 1199 unread messages- but it also show the warning sign that that Inbox is not online (not connected to the server. When you do the get Account Info, it goes to your ONLINE account and shows you the situation there. You have a warning there saying that account is offline thus the numbers do not match. If you follow my procedure above, to test the export from your Inbox that is in your Mac Mail.
– Feb 13 '15 at 17:18. I have a deactivated email account, which I would like to backup all the emails locally as.mbox, and can be easily further transferred between different email client (i.e. From Mac Mail to Thunderbird etc). But every time, I select a mailbox - (right click) Export Mailbox, it only exports around 25 emails out of the total 2000+ emails. By accident, I found a trick worked for me. One has to select a mailbox folder, and uses the small settings (gear) icon at the bottom of the panel, to do the export!
Then you will find it will export all the emails contained in that folder! This worked for me at least, but it seems it is definitely a bug of the software. Solving the annoying Some messages could not be imported - Error in Mail.app. I figured out a pretty easy way to copy all E-Mails from my old MacBook to my new machine with Mail.app. (MacOS Mojave 10.14.2; Mail 12.2) Don't export your mailboxes as.mbox (Mail.app Mailbox Export Mailbox.) I pretty much always got the following error when I imported the previously exported.mbox files to my new Macbook: Some messages could not be imported. The partially imported mailboxes are located in the mailbox named “Import” in the mailboxes list.
The odd thing is that Mail.app doesn't tell you which E-Mails have not been copied. This uncertainty is very frustrating especially when you want to move thousands of E-Mails. There is a simple workaround using EMLs instead of.mbox:.
In Finder create a folder for every mailbox you want to copy. In any case you should create a minimum of 2 folders. You’ll see why soon. In Mail.app select one mailbox at a time. Select all mails inside and drag & drop them into the corresponding folder in the finder.
The mails are copied into the folder as EML. On the new machine open Mail.app. File Import Mailboxes Import data from Apple Mail. Important! Select at least 2 folders to import. If you only select one folder, Mail.app imports every EML file in its own mailbox! (This would work but it takes long to delete the empty mailboxes after you’ve moved all the mails into one mailbox.) Done!
With this technique I've copied thousands of E-Mails from one Mail.app to another Mail.app without any errors.