Conversion of Stored Email from Pegasus
Dr. Planarian
used Eudora back to the early 1990s when it first came out but
switched in 1999.
I switched to Pegasus, and now I have a vast body of stored email
messages that I would like to convert. Because we're talking about
nearly 20,000 pieces of archived mail (sort of my own personal
Lexis-Nexis), there is no reasonable way to accomplish this manually.
I cannot find anything in the Eudora documents or knowledge base
provided with Eudora 6.2 that mentions conversion from anything but
Outlook. I have ALWAYS hated Outlook and refuse to use it unless
forced by circumstances (like irrational employers).
Do any of you good folks know any way conversion from Pegasus Mail
might be accomplished. I would very much like to remove Pegasus from
my computer but I can't until my archived mail can be rendered
accessible to Eudora.
Dr. Planarian
Frankenstein
A quick google search came up with this
http://www.dragon-it.co.uk/pegasus.htm#mailconv_heading
this
http://krunch.med.yale.edu/~og/p2e.html
and this
http://www.andtechnologies.com/free.html
for starters. Have you tried any of those?
--
Frankenstein
Dr. Planarian
<Franke...@dracula.com> wrote:
>A quick google search came up with this
>
>http://www.dragon-it.co.uk/pegasus.htm#mailconv_heading
>
>this
>
>http://krunch.med.yale.edu/~og/p2e.html
>
>and this
>
>http://www.andtechnologies.com/free.html
>
>for starters. Have you tried any of those?
Yes. Thank you! All done.
The first one you referenced, "mailconv.exe," is what I used
successfully. There were some problems because the application is
very old and could only recognize file and directory names in DOS 8.3
format.
Because Eudora under Windows XP uses directory links, the application
was unable to create the mail folders in the appropriate location or
in a manner that permitted Eudora to recognize them. Indeed, it was
unable even to see any of the mailbox folders, or many of the files
themselves, under the Eudora directory, whether navigating through
links or directly from the root.
HOWEVER, I directed it to create the converted files in a directory it
could see, and it DID create the folders very nicely and VERY quickly,
particularly considering that I had saved almost half a gig of email.
It took only a few seconds to convert the whole lot of it.
It created .mbx files with the numerical filenames derived from the
Pegasus filenames. These files then were cut-and-pasted into the
appropriate Eudora directory structure (I created a malbox folder
called "Old Pegasus Mail"), and Eudora recognized them all after
closing and then opening the Eudora application. The only problem
that remained was to rename all the folders manually, which was
time-consuming and required looking at the mail messages themselves in
some cases, both on Eudora and on Pegasus, to determine which
mailboxes they were and what they'd been called on Pegasus.
But it's all done now and the result is most satisfactory! Thank you
again for your help.
Dr. P