Rolling Tiger's Mail back to Panther

Pesky little exercise

Rolling Tiger's Mail back to Panther: "

Filed under: OS, Tips and tricks, Odds and ends

On occasion we've noticed that not everyone is happy with Tiger. Some people have issues with warm PowerBooks, others just don't see the benefit to the hot new features. Fair enough - but what if you're a Mail user? Apple changed the way Mail stores mailboxes and messages with Tiger, and unless your accounts are all IMAP and you're up for re-downloading everything, moving back to Panther's Mail can result in some painful headaches.

Fortunately, Hawk Wings tracked down a thread at Apple's discussion boards that produced a few solutions. The first is a dedicated freeware mailbox converter, the second is an archive script that's part of Mail Scripts, a whole set of handy add-on scripts for Mail which I know we've blogged here before, but I can't find the entry.

Hopefully, these solutions can help you out if Mail was the last piece in your plan for moving back to Panther.

(Via The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW).)