Eudora archives to other email programs

I've had good experiences with emailchemy.

Eudora migration is a tricky thing indeed, and you should be wary of any product that claims it can import Eudora files (Emailchemy too - test it first). The heart of the problem is that the storage files used by Eudora may indeed resemble mbox format, but the messages within are not RFC-2822 compliant the MIME headers are usually completely wrong because of how Eudora strips attachments and re-encodes text. Then, all the various 3rd-party plugins needed for internationalization (at the charset level, there was never a non-English build of Eudora released by Qualcomm) can do some really odd things to the content too.

The net of this is that because many think Eudora is simply mbox, they treat it as such and the result is that the formatting gets lost or is wrong, the text is unreadable because of encoding errors, attachments are lost, and even entire messages may be lost.

The best way to do this is to use Emailchemy and do the conversion on the computer where the email was downloaded. If you run into any problems with Emailchemy, email me; I wrote it.

Regards,

Matt

At 12:18 AM -0800 1/20/10, Matt Hovey wrote:
>Eudora migration is a tricky thing indeed, and you should be wary of
>any product that claims it can import Eudora files (Emailchemy too -
>test it first). The heart of the problem is that the storage files
>used by Eudora may indeed resemble mbox format, but the messages
>within are not RFC-2822 compliant the MIME headers are usually
>completely wrong because of how Eudora strips attachments and
>re-encodes text. Then, all the various 3rd-party plugins needed for
>internationalization (at the charset level, there was never a
>non-English build of Eudora released by Qualcomm) can do some really
>odd things to the content too.
>
>The net of this is that because many think Eudora is simply mbox,
>they treat it as such and the result is that the formatting gets
>lost or is wrong, the text is unreadable because of encoding errors,
>attachments are lost, and even entire messages may be lost.
>
>The best way to do this is to use Emailchemy and do the conversion
>on the computer where the email was downloaded. If you run into any
>problems with Emailchemy, email me; I wrote it.

I am currently running Eudora 6.2.4 on my new white MacBook (MacOS X
10.6.2) with absolutely no problems (so far) managing my complex
mailbox setup and convoluted filters. I simply copied the Eudora
application folder and my Eudora mail folder from my PowerBook
G4/1.67 running Mac OS X 10.4.11, double-clicked my settings file,
and was off and running ... no need to convert anything.

- Maretta

I've been using Eudora 6.2.4 for both POP and IMAP with Leopard. Upgrading to Snow Leopard broke IMAP. Eudora appears to go into an infinite loop when checking for IMAP mail.

I have been using my Eudora nicknames file "notes" tab for years as a stash of all sorts of important information, from license numbers, to birthdays. Is anyone aware of a migration tool that retains this information?

I am hoping to migrate my Eudora Mail Folder (decades worth of email!) to Thunderbird. Thunderbirds own migration tool and "Eudora Mailbox Cleaner" seem to get confused by my multiple personalities and my use of both POP and IMAP, in addition to the Address Book/Notes issue. Guidance on other migration tools, or making the two I've tried work would be appreciated.

-Joe

On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 3:49 AM, joe502 <joeutdallas.edu> wrote:
> I have been using my Eudora nicknames file "notes" tab for years as a stash of all sorts of important information, from license numbers, to birthdays. Is anyone aware of a migration tool that retains this information?

In the worst case, the Eudora nicknames files are all plain text, so
some grep work in BBEdit or the like should be able to get stuff out
in a format that could be imported into another program as a
tab-delimited text file.

cheers... -Adam

At 12:49 AM -0800 01/24/2010, joe502 wrote:
>I've been using Eudora 6.2.4 for both POP and IMAP with Leopard.
>Upgrading to Snow Leopard broke IMAP. Eudora appears to go into an
>infinite loop when checking for IMAP mail.

Strange. I have two IMAP accounts (academic and gmail) and Eudora
works fine under Snow Leopard, for me. Might want to trash the Eudora
Settings file and see if that has any impact on things...
--

tom coradeschi
tcoraasme.org