Why is mbox mail not pushing

Such situations demand a sure-shot solution that really works. Presenting Thunderbird Importer. This is considered as a great alternative to the ImportExportTools add-on of Thunderbird. In many cases, it works better than the free add-on. All you have to do is to download the software and perform file importation using these simple methods. A quick check in the file "All mail including spam and trash So I can only guess that the sender's timestamps on these emails were incorrect.

So far so good. Then, Thunderbird appeared to be doing another download, taking much longer, which seemed to be filling up the inbox from gmail again. I had to stop it from doing that by disconnecting the WiFi from my mac. If you have an mbox file delete the. All I see is troubleshooting info and no "Show in Finder" to click on. On the other hand, I do see both of my accounts in the troubleshooting info list - screen shot attached.

That should stop all email downloading from the Google server so that I can work on the back-up emails only. The attached picture shows the tab for a completely empty profile. On the other hand, with the menu opened, I can select "include account names" which brings up the complete path to the profile folder screen shot attached.

Clicking on the path gets me straight to the folder and I can see everything in it. Sound like it's going to be easier for me to simply go offline because I'm not quite ready to start using Thunderbird as my email client. As I mentioned, I need to free up space in my gmail account by deleting large number of early files. I can keep the old files in. I need a bit more time with Thunderbird so that I can use it reliably for parsing and reading the old email.

Will report back.. Final update. I started and quit TB twice and in each case all of my email came up as well as visibility of the mbox file in Local Folders. If the restored files on new iMac, copy the necessary data to hard drive 3. Erase hard drive of new iMac and reinstall the Operating System 4. If the process is complete, transfer the files from External Drive to new iMac 5.

Update your Operating system after completion of entire task Note: By this method, the other problems like photos, videos etc can be resolved but except Mails. More Insider Sign Out. Sign In Register. Sign Out Sign In Register. Latest Insider. Check out the latest Insider stories here. More from the IDG Network. How to avoid paying Apple for extra iCloud storage. OS X Mavericks: 4 speed secrets.