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Eudora Goes Open Source with Thunderbird

joecab (apparently) - 10:51am Oct 19, 2006 PST
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I've decided that I'm done with Eudora. It's been my exclusive email
client for the past 15+ years, but come on now. They've been
promising us a Cocoa version for over a year now and now we find out
they've ditched everything to start over again with a new code base.
It sounds like all it will retain is the name, and that's much too
"Napster" for my tastes.

If they're starting over with Thunderbird, then why not switch to
that? Or incorporate whatever's worth keeping from Eudora into
Thunderbird?

I sat down and made the switch to Apple Mail this weekend, and so far
I really like it. It was just a matter of setting all my Mail
preferences ahead of time, then cleaning up Eudora to make the
transition as smooth as possible, using Andreas Amann's Eudora
Mailbox Cleaner to copy all my Eudora messages, addresses and filters
to Mail, and tweaking the results in Mail. All the messages came
through fine and most of my time was spent tweaking the imported
filter settings and getting used to Mail.

In this day and age when two of the most popular Mac OS X email
programs are free, Eudora just doesn't cut it. It's too bad that this
is what it took to get me to finally let go and really check out what
else is available.

--Joe Cabrera

(personal message to TidBITS staff: if you decide to collect tips on
switching from Eudora, let me know and I'll send you a few things to
make note of to ease the transition)

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Randall Williams - Oct 24, 2006 12:42 pm (#1 Total: 3)

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Re: Eudora Goes Open Source with Thunderbird

Our office made a similar decision a couple of years ago to switch from another email client to Mail, and we've been happy with it. But one staffer has resisted the switch because she has years of archived and filed emails in the original client, QuickMail Pro. Does anyone know of a utility similar to "Eudora Mailbox Cleaner" that would help with the migration of her saved addresses and messages and their folders into Mail from QuickMail Pro?

Best, Randall Williams

cannon (apparently) - Oct 25, 2006 5:06 am (#2 Total: 3)

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Posts: 2

Re: Eudora Goes Open Source with Thunderbird

Randall Williams wrote:

> Does anyone know of a utility similar to "Eudora Mailbox Cleaner" that would help with the migration of her saved addresses and messages and their folders into Mail from QuickMail Pro?

You might five Emailchemy a try.

<http://weirdkid.com/>

--
Cannon Smith
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jwblist (apparently) - Oct 25, 2006 5:06 am (#3 Total: 3)

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Re: Eudora Goes Open Source with Thunderbird

On Oct 24, 2006, at 12:42 PM, Randall Williams wrote:

> Our office made a similar decision a couple of years ago to switch
> from another email client to Mail, and we've been happy with it.
> But one staffer has resisted the switch because she has years of
> archived and filed emails in the original client, QuickMail Pro.
> Does anyone know of a utility similar to "Eudora Mailbox Cleaner"
> that would help with the migration of her saved addresses and
> messages and their folders into Mail from QuickMail Pro?

What I usually do when I switch mail programs is not migrate the old
mail, but keep the old program around to search the old mail.
Gradually--for me--the old program becomes moot. (I haven't fired up
Filemaker to paw through my old Claris Emailer archives for a long
time now, for instance.)

But I don't save email as compulsively as many folks seem to. (I
used to, and I have a bunch of "complete" collections locked in
StuffIt archives to which I don't remember the password--and haven't
needed it for 5 years. I frankly don't care what anyone told me in
1994.)

--John

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