Moving mailboxes to IMAP

[David Morrison]

My long term plan for mail is to have everything IMAP. This will allow
me to move on to other clients when finally I cannot use Eudora any more.

So I decided the first step was to move some of my existing mailboxes to
an IMAP account. I figured that if I could do this in Eudora, it would
save a lot of conversion issues.

Now I know Eudora's IMAP support was rudimentary, but I thought I should
at least be able to do this.

So I opened up the Mailboxes window and tried to drag a mailbox to my
iCloud account. Nothing happened. The destination account or mail folder
did not highlight when I dragged my mailbox over it.

In fact, the only thing I could do was to create a new mailbox on
iCloud, and drag the messages across. Needless to say, this is not
something I want to do manually for several hundred mailboxes.

Is there a trick to this or can I only drag messages to IMAP accounts?

(Is Windows Eudora any better?)

Thanks

David

[Hauke Fath]

David Morrison <davi...@excite.com> wrote:

> In fact, the only thing I could do was to create a new mailbox on
> iCloud, and drag the messages across. Needless to say, this is not
> something I want to do manually for several hundred mailboxes.
>
> Is there a trick to this or can I only drag messages to IMAP accounts?

If you have access to the imap server (or its admin), and if that uses
the mbox format, you could just copy the mailbox files there. You'd lose
the attachments, though, which Eudora likes to store separately. ISTR
that there was a tool which can re-merge a mailbox and its attachments,
but the name escapes me?

Else, you could import the mailboxes to Apple Mail or Thunderbird, and
see if they can copy local mailboxes to the imap server.

HTH,
hauke

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[Patty Winter]

In article <1kx1txr.191b2rphgvki7N%dont.spa...@googlemail.com>,

Hauke Fath <ha...@Espresso.Rhein-Neckar.DE> wrote:
>
>If you have access to the imap server (or its admin), and if that uses
>the mbox format, you could just copy the mailbox files there. You'd lose
>the attachments, though, which Eudora likes to store separately. ISTR
>that there was a tool which can re-merge a mailbox and its attachments,
>but the name escapes me?

This one?

http://www.andreasamann.com/MacOSX/Eudora_Mailbox_Cleaner


Patty

[Hauke Fath]

Patty Winter <pat...@wintertime.com> wrote:

> >[...] there was a tool which can re-merge a mailbox and its attachments,

> >but the name escapes me?
>
> This one?
>
> http://www.andreasamann.com/MacOSX/Eudora_Mailbox_Cleaner

Yes, this looks like it (unless there are two).

Thanks!

[David Morrison]

In article <1kx1txr.191b2rphgvki7N%dont.spa...@googlemail.com>,

dont.spa...@googlemail.com (Hauke Fath) wrote:

> David Morrison <davi...@excite.com> wrote:
>
> > In fact, the only thing I could do was to create a new mailbox on
> > iCloud, and drag the messages across. Needless to say, this is not
> > something I want to do manually for several hundred mailboxes.
> >
> > Is there a trick to this or can I only drag messages to IMAP accounts?
>
> If you have access to the imap server (or its admin), and if that uses
> the mbox format, you could just copy the mailbox files there. You'd lose
> the attachments, though, which Eudora likes to store separately. ISTR
> that there was a tool which can re-merge a mailbox and its attachments,
> but the name escapes me?

Thanks for the suggestion. I can certainly set up an IMAP server on a
spare machine which might help as a staging post.

Since my goal is to get the messages to a different IMAP server, I could
copy the whole Attachments Folder onto my server and hopefully it would
just find all the attachments and I could copy the messages to the other
server.

> Else, you could import the mailboxes to Apple Mail or Thunderbird, and
> see if they can copy local mailboxes to the imap server.

That's a good point too. This is where Eudora Mailbox Cleaner could help.

[Hauke Fath]

David Morrison <davi...@excite.com> wrote:

> Since my goal is to get the messages to a different IMAP server, I could
> copy the whole Attachments Folder onto my server and hopefully it would
> just find all the attachments and I could copy the messages to the other
> server.

Well, only Eudora (and the specially constructed program hinted at)
knows how to reconnect the mail text part, and the attachment.

Obviously, you can serve the files throigh imap, but you'd have to make
the connection yourself. ;)

[Hauke Fath]

David Morrison <davi...@excite.com> wrote:

> Since my goal is to get the messages to a different IMAP server, I could
> copy the whole Attachments Folder onto my server and hopefully it would
> just find all the attachments and I could copy the messages to the other
> server.

Well, only Eudora (and the specially constructed program hinted at)
knows how to reconnect the mail text part, and the attachment.

Obviously, you can serve the files through imap, but you'd have to make
the connection yourself. ;)