Converting Eudora to Mail: Importing Mailboxes

[Charles H. Sampson]

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
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[Your Name]

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.

[Leonard Blaisdell]

In article <1ndyin6.o1aqe71sg5bffN%csam...@inetworld.net>, Charles H.

Sampson <csam...@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

[Your Name]

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). :-)

[Andreas Rutishauser]

Salut Charlie

In article <1ndyin6.o1aqe71sg5bffN%csam...@inetworld.net>,

csam...@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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[Jolly Roger]

Charles H. Sampson <csam...@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.

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[Lewis]

In message <151020172302578555%leobla...@sbcglobal.net> Leonard Blaisdell <leobla...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> In article <1ndyin6.o1aqe71sg5bffN%csam...@inetworld.net>, Charles H.
> Sampson <csam...@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

[Charles H. Sampson]

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"?

[nospam]

In article <1ndzj06.qz900q1p7rr5jN%csam...@inetworld.net>, Charles H.

Sampson <csam...@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.