{"id":17100,"date":"2011-08-07T11:02:37","date_gmt":"2011-08-07T18:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/?p=4722"},"modified":"2011-08-07T11:02:37","modified_gmt":"2011-08-07T18:02:37","slug":"ot-mac-remote-access-mail-advice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/07\/ot-mac-remote-access-mail-advice\/","title":{"rendered":"[OT] Mac remote access &amp; Mail advice?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings from <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Galena,_IL\">rural Illinois<\/a>, &#8220;The Land Connectivity Forgot,&#8221; where I&#8217;ve just set up my parents&#8217; new iMac. We&#8217;ve had some minor hiccups (e.g. repeatedly explaining that an &#8220;app store&#8221; is neither a physical place nor something that mails you CDs; realizing that N-finger gestures are going to be the source of many panicked &#8220;Oh, <em>Jaahn<\/em>, it <em>disappeared<\/em>&#8221; calls), but overall things are good.<\/p>\n<p>In particular I&#8217;m delighted with how well FaceTime is running. I don&#8217;t know whether their ISP splurged and added a second upstream cocktail straw, or whether the combo of new hardware\/compression has done the trick, but it seems to be a vast improvement over our excruciatingly laggy iChat sessions.<\/p>\n<p>Two questions, though:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I want to connect to their machine, wake it up, and drive anytime, regardless of whether they&#8217;re around. (Yes, they&#8217;re cool with this.) iChat requires someone to accept my screen-sharing request. What&#8217;s a more robust alternative? Do I have to spring for Apple Remote Desktop? I&#8217;ve occasionally used VNC clients, but do those require me to know the other machine&#8217;s (static) IP address?<\/li>\n<li>Why, for the love of God, can&#8217;t Mail on Lion import a mailbox (.mbox) from Mail on Leopard? I&#8217;ve tried every method I can think of (archiving, exporting), but I always get a &#8220;some [meaning all] messages could not be imported&#8221; error. I&#8217;ve even tried dragging everything into my mom&#8217;s Gmail account, thinking I could upload from the old machine &amp; download it onto the newer one, but the messages never seem to reach the server. I&#8217;ve tried downloading the new Outlook, but it requires 10.5.8, and the old iMac won&#8217;t accept its admin password (needed to run a system update).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Yes yes, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/search\/firstworldproblems\">#firstworldproblems<\/a>, to be sure, but any advice would be most welcome. Thanks in advance!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings from rural Illinois, &#8220;The Land Connectivity Forgot,&#8221; where I&#8217;ve just set up my parents&#8217; new iMac. We&#8217;ve had some minor hiccups (e.g. repeatedly explaining that an &#8220;app store&#8221; is neither a physical place nor something that mails you CDs; realizing that N-finger gestures are going to be the source of many panicked &#8220;Oh, Jaahn, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17100"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}