• Converting Eudora to Mail: Importing Mailboxes

    From Charles H. Sampson@21:1/5 to All on Sun Oct 15 22:17:45 2017
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    I'm still experimenting with converting Eudora to Apple Mail. I'm
    afforded the ability to import mailboxes. It appears that this means
    exactly that. Only mailboxes are imported, address books and filters are
    not. Am I right?

    Charlie
    --
    Nobody in this country got rich on his own. You built a factory--good.
    But you moved your goods on roads we all paid for. You hired workers we
    all paid to educate. So keep a big hunk of the money from your factory.
    But take a hunk and pay it forward. Elizabeth Warren (paraphrased)

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  • From Your Name@21:1/5 to Charles H. Sampson on Mon Oct 16 18:50:58 2017
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    On 2017-10-16 05:17:45 +0000, Charles H. Sampson said:

    I'm still experimenting with converting Eudora to Apple Mail. I'm
    afforded the ability to import mailboxes. It appears that this means
    exactly that. Only mailboxes are imported, address books and filters are
    not. Am I right?

    The Mail app itself doesn't have an address book / contacts capability.
    You have to use the separate app called "Contacts". You'll probably
    have to export them from Eudora as a CSV or similar, and then you can
    import them into Contacts ... although it may be better to add them in
    manually to allow you to weed out any unneeded old ones.

    Mail does pick-up the address from Contacts when you start typing a name, etc.


    The filters are called "Rules" in Mail, but you will probably have to
    recreate from scratch if you still need them, and you can again weed
    out any unneeded old ones.

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  • From Leonard Blaisdell@21:1/5 to Sampson on Sun Oct 15 23:02:57 2017
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    In article <1ndyin6.o1aqe71sg5bffN%csampson@inetworld.net>, Charles H.
    Sampson <csampson@inetworld.net> wrote:

    I'm still experimenting with converting Eudora to Apple Mail. I'm
    afforded the ability to import mailboxes. It appears that this means
    exactly that. Only mailboxes are imported, address books and filters are
    not. Am I right?

    I converted to Mail during OSX Panther. I left Eudora then, and it
    broke my heart. What I do remember is that I lost all Eudora email
    pictures. It never occurred to me, and I didn't have a backup when I
    converted to OSX. It would help to save the whole Eudora data folder
    minus Eudora. The mailboxes and mail came through conversion just fine,
    but the attached pictures couldn't relate. Best I can do. I didn't do
    it right. I can still read what was my Eudora email within Mail from
    that time, but the pictures are gone.
    I didn't have address books or filters back then. I only cared about
    the photos I lost. I think there's a "Attachments" folder that you
    really want to save, but it's been a long time.

    leo

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  • From Tim Streater@21:1/5 to Sampson on Mon Oct 16 09:47:02 2017
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    In article <1ndyin6.o1aqe71sg5bffN%csampson@inetworld.net>, Charles H.
    Sampson <csampson@inetworld.net> wrote:

    I'm still experimenting with converting Eudora to Apple Mail. I'm
    afforded the ability to import mailboxes. It appears that this means
    exactly that. Only mailboxes are imported, address books and filters are
    not. Am I right?

    Take a look at emailchemy. This app can re-attach attachments to mails,
    which may be of some interest to you. I'm not sure whether it does
    anything with filters. I would think not, as filters tend to be client-specific.

    --
    The truth of the matter is that we Scots have always been more divided amongst ourselves than pitted against the English. Scottish history before the Union of Parliaments is a gloomy, violent tale of murders, feuds, and tribal revenge. Only after the Act of Union did Highlanders and Lowlanders, Picts and Celts, begin to recognise one another as fellow citizens.

    Tam Dalyell

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  • From Your Name@21:1/5 to Leonard Blaisdell on Mon Oct 16 19:41:49 2017
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    On 2017-10-16 06:02:57 +0000, Leonard Blaisdell said:
    In article <1ndyin6.o1aqe71sg5bffN%csampson@inetworld.net>, Charles H. Sampson <csampson@inetworld.net> wrote:

    I'm still experimenting with converting Eudora to Apple Mail. I'm
    afforded the ability to import mailboxes. It appears that this means
    exactly that. Only mailboxes are imported, address books and filters are
    not. Am I right?

    I converted to Mail during OSX Panther. I left Eudora then, and it
    broke my heart. What I do remember is that I lost all Eudora email
    pictures. It never occurred to me, and I didn't have a backup when I converted to OSX. It would help to save the whole Eudora data folder
    minus Eudora. The mailboxes and mail came through conversion just fine,
    but the attached pictures couldn't relate. Best I can do. I didn't do
    it right. I can still read what was my Eudora email within Mail from
    that time, but the pictures are gone.
    I didn't have address books or filters back then. I only cared about
    the photos I lost. I think there's a "Attachments" folder that you
    really want to save, but it's been a long time.

    When my PowerMac G3 died, I was forced to upgrade and that included not
    having Eudora any longer. :-(

    The Eudora Mailboxes and Nicknames are simple text files. I luckily was
    able to save the data from the PowerMac, and now if I need to look at
    an old email or find an old email address I just open up the
    appropriate mailbox / nickname file in TextEdit (HTML emails make it a
    bit of a mess to read, but you could get around that if you needed to -
    I simply haven't bothered). :-)

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  • From Andreas Rutishauser@21:1/5 to Charles H. Sampson on Mon Oct 16 18:08:36 2017
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    Salut Charlie

    In article <1ndyin6.o1aqe71sg5bffN%csampson@inetworld.net>,
    csampson@inetworld.net (Charles H. Sampson) wrote:

    I'm still experimenting with converting Eudora to Apple Mail. I'm
    afforded the ability to import mailboxes. It appears that this means
    exactly that.

    yes, if is works at all ;-(. Mixed expieriences here...

    Only mailboxes are imported, address books and filters are
    not. Am I right?

    Yes. Mail.app has no address book, Apple provides Conatcts (or Address
    Book in older versions) for that.

    I used Eudora Mailbox Cleaner on many occasions: <http://www.andreasamann.com/MacOSX/Eudora_Mailbox_Cleaner>

    Like Eudora itself Eudora Mailbox Cleaner is a PPC application which has
    to run at maximun MacOS X 10.6.8

    It will also take over the Eudora address book and nicknames to Apple
    Contacts

    Cheers
    Andreas

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  • From Jolly Roger@21:1/5 to Charles H. Sampson on Mon Oct 16 16:19:27 2017
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    Charles H. Sampson <csampson@inetworld.net> wrote:
    I'm still experimenting with converting Eudora to Apple Mail. I'm
    afforded the ability to import mailboxes. It appears that this means
    exactly that. Only mailboxes are imported, address books and filters are
    not. Am I right?

    Use this instead:

    <http://www.weirdkid.com/emailchemy>

    We've discussed Emailchemy in the past here. Reading those
    previousdiscussions would be a good idea.

    --
    E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter.
    I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead.

    JR

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  • From Lewis@21:1/5 to Leonard Blaisdell on Mon Oct 16 20:59:22 2017
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    In message <151020172302578555%leoblaisdell@sbcglobal.net> Leonard Blaisdell <leoblaisdell@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
    In article <1ndyin6.o1aqe71sg5bffN%csampson@inetworld.net>, Charles H. Sampson <csampson@inetworld.net> wrote:

    I'm still experimenting with converting Eudora to Apple Mail. I'm
    afforded the ability to import mailboxes. It appears that this means
    exactly that. Only mailboxes are imported, address books and filters are
    not. Am I right?

    I converted to Mail during OSX Panther. I left Eudora then, and it
    broke my heart. What I do remember is that I lost all Eudora email
    pictures. It never occurred to me, and I didn't have a backup when I converted to OSX. It would help to save the whole Eudora data folder
    minus Eudora. The mailboxes and mail came through conversion just fine,
    but the attached pictures couldn't relate. Best I can do. I didn't do
    it right. I can still read what was my Eudora email within Mail from
    that time, but the pictures are gone.

    This is because Eudora removed the attachments and stored them
    separately.

    I didn't have address books or filters back then. I only cared about
    the photos I lost. I think there's a "Attachments" folder that you
    really want to save, but it's been a long time.

    Yep.

    --
    she [Esk] was already learning that if you ignore the rules people will,
    half the time, quietly rewrite them so they don't apply to you. --Equal
    Rites

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  • From nospam@21:1/5 to Sampson on Sat Oct 21 11:46:33 2017
    XPost: comp.sys.mac.apps

    In article <1ndzj06.qz900q1p7rr5jN%csampson@inetworld.net>, Charles H.
    Sampson <csampson@inetworld.net> wrote:

    The two of you address another problrem. I'm going to keep my G5 around
    for a while just in case I need to manually retrieve something. The
    question is: How long is "a while"?

    however long it takes you to archive the contents of its hard drive to
    a disk image, which you can then keep on your new system.

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  • From Charles H. Sampson@21:1/5 to Your Name on Sat Oct 21 08:40:34 2017
    XPost: comp.sys.mac.apps

    Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:

    On 2017-10-16 06:02:57 +0000, Leonard Blaisdell said:
    In article <1ndyin6.o1aqe71sg5bffN%csampson@inetworld.net>, Charles H. Sampson <csampson@inetworld.net> wrote:

    I'm still experimenting with converting Eudora to Apple Mail. I'm
    afforded the ability to import mailboxes. It appears that this means
    exactly that. Only mailboxes are imported, address books and filters are >> not. Am I right?

    I converted to Mail during OSX Panther. I left Eudora then, and it
    broke my heart. What I do remember is that I lost all Eudora email pictures. It never occurred to me, and I didn't have a backup when I converted to OSX. It would help to save the whole Eudora data folder
    minus Eudora. The mailboxes and mail came through conversion just fine,
    but the attached pictures couldn't relate. Best I can do. I didn't do
    it right. I can still read what was my Eudora email within Mail from
    that time, but the pictures are gone.
    I didn't have address books or filters back then. I only cared about
    the photos I lost. I think there's a "Attachments" folder that you
    really want to save, but it's been a long time.

    When my PowerMac G3 died, I was forced to upgrade and that included not having Eudora any longer. :-(

    The Eudora Mailboxes and Nicknames are simple text files. I luckily was
    able to save the data from the PowerMac, and now if I need to look at
    an old email or find an old email address I just open up the
    appropriate mailbox / nickname file in TextEdit (HTML emails make it a
    bit of a mess to read, but you could get around that if you needed to -
    I simply haven't bothered). :-)

    The two of you address another problrem. I'm going to keep my G5 around
    for a while just in case I need to manually retrieve something. The
    question is: How long is "a while"?

    Charlie
    --
    Nobody in this country got rich on his own. You built a factory--good.
    But you moved your goods on roads we all paid for. You hired workers we
    all paid to educate. So keep a big hunk of the money from your factory.
    But take a hunk and pay it forward. Elizabeth Warren (paraphrased)

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