Welcome to the Freeola Internet customer support pages. This guide is designed to help with ensuring that you fully back up your mail client, Mac Mail, should you need to upgrade your mail service.
Open up Mac Mail.
Select the Mailbox you wish to backup from the top or left menu.
From the top menu, under the 'Mailbox' option select 'Archive Mailbox...'.
You will now be prompted to specify where you would like to backup your mailbox to, we would suggest that you select a safe directory such as your Documents folder. Once you have chosen press the 'Choose' button.
Your messages will now be backed up, you can repeat this for each mailbox as you require.
Open up the Address Book application.
Click 'File' from the top toolbar and select 'Export' -> 'Address Book Archive'.
The next window will ask you to specify where you would live to save your Address Book, we suggest that you select a safe location such as your Documents folder.
Once complete your Address Book will have been saved.
Open up Mac Mail.
Select the Mailbox you wish to backup from the top or left menu.
From the top menu, under the 'File' option select 'Import Mailboxes...'.
From the list of options from where to import data from, select 'mbox files'.
You will now be prompted to specify where your backed up mbox files are located. If you have backed up your mail using the guide above then your mbox files will be in the same location that you saved them.
Your messages will now have been restored, you can repeat this for each mailbox as you require.
Open up the Address Book application.
Click 'File' from the top toolbar and select 'Import' -> 'Address Book Archive'.
The next window will ask you to specify where your Address Book backup is currently saved, once you have done so press 'Choose'.
Your address book will now have been imported.
