Jun 24, 2019 Moving your Apple Mail to a new Mac, or to a new, clean install of the operating system (OS), may seem like a difficult task, but it actually only requires saving three items and moving them to the new destination.
My Mac (MacPro 2012) was getting clunkier and clunkier. I backed the whole think up with Carbon Copy Cloner, and then did a clean Mojave install.
Windows Migration To Mac
I tried the following:
Renamed 'Mail' folder in clean system Library.
Copied 'Mail' from old Library to clean (and fixed permissions)
Moved 'com.apple.mail.plist' from old Library/Preferences to clean (and fixed permissions)
There was no file named 'com.apple.mail.plist' in the clean Library/Preferences (but there is one named 'com.apple.mail-shared.plist')
Restart. Open mail and their no mail-boxes. Basically dead.
Go back to original (clean) files, and launch Mail. Get one iCloud account.
I have gigabytes of mail and multiple accounts I would like to move. I don't want to use migration assistant as it will bring all the dross with it.
Anyone out there know what I'm doing wrong??