Importing messages from Apple Mail

DEVONthink
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Hello, I’m on Catalina latest version with Devonthink latest version. I’m trying to import messages from Apple mail, from an Office 365 mailbox with 17,000 messages. It is taking 40+ hours and failing, either by using Import ‘Mailbox’ or drag and dropping into Devonthink. Importing the Mbox from the apple mail folder fails as well. But… what I find, is that importing the mails using Eagle Filer, and letting Eagle Filer generate a new mbox file, and importing that into Devonthink, works in a about one hour … it cruises like it should be.

There is something wrong with the import process from Apple mail. It is pityfully slow and bares on being unusuable.

F.

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Did you install the plug-in for Apple Mail and enable it too? You might also disable the option to import complete conversations (see Preferences > Email) as that’s unnecessary when importing/archiving complete mailboxes.

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Of course, as well as issued these commands, which allowed me to see the plugin as registered in the mail control panel in Catalina

sudo defaults write “/Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail” EnableBundles 1
defaults write com.apple.mail EnableBundles -bool true
defaults write com.apple.mail BundleCompatibilityVersion 4

But I did not try disabling import conversations… i will

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What does exactly fail?