6 hour struggle complete: MS Exchange -> Eudora

[Jeff Arnholt]

I'm really disappointed that Eudora and MS Exchange both lack
good mail import/export routines. I spent the last 6 hours
MANUALLY FORWARDING 3000 MESSAGES from Exchange
to Eudora (as per directions I found on a NASA site).
I'm glad that NASA freely distributes a routine which fixed
the header information (FIXHEAD.EXE), but the manual
forwarding their method requires was excruciating.

Anybody know how to convert Internet Mail to Eudora? I
have two months of mail I now need to convert from
that format.

Jeff Arnholt
arn...@mayo.edu

[Ken Simler]

In article <327ed124...@mayonews.mayo.edu>,

arn...@mayo.edu (Jeff Arnholt) wrote:
>I'm really disappointed that Eudora and MS Exchange both lack
>good mail import/export routines.

Eudora has a very simple mail import/export routine that works with any of
a number of mail programs that use the standard internet mailbox format:
it's called the `copy' command (giving the file the correct extension at
the new location, if necessary). Rename works, too. Need to convert from
Eudora to Netscape? Simple, just:

copy c:\eudora\foo.mbx c:\netscape\mail\foo

and it's done. Same for going the other way. This also works with Pine
and Elm mail programs commonly found on Unix systems. I am not sure what
other pc-based programs use this format, but I know that Pegasus, MS IM, MS
Mail, MS Exchange, and Agent do not. Agent, however, does provide an
import/export feature that will take care of it.

For those interested in these and other conversions, see:
<http://mango.human.cornell.edu/kens/MoreFAQ.html#Convert>

>Anybody know how to convert Internet Mail to Eudora? I
>have two months of mail I now need to convert from
>that format.

Sorry, but that page doesn't have anything for converting from MS IM to
Eudora, although it does have a link to a utility to go the other way. I
blame MS for using a non-standard format AND failing to provide an
import/export facility.

-Ken

--
Kenneth Simler
Research Associate, Cornell Food & Nutrition Policy Program
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA
sim...@mango.human.cornell.edu http://mango.human.cornell.edu/kens/

[Kenneth Simler]

Martin Gundersen (g...@image.no) wrote:
> [Ken Simler]

> > Eudora has a very simple mail import/export routine that works with any of
> > a number of mail programs that use the standard internet mailbox format:
> > it's called the `copy' command (giving the file the correct extension at
> > the new location, if necessary).

> i tried your trick with an old mailbox from the time i used Yarn. it didn't
> work. i tought Yarn used the standard internet mailbox format?

I've never used Yarn, but from the little I know about it I would
expect that it does use the standard format. If you were moving
from Unix to DOS/Win platform, you did remember to convert the
end-of-lines from LF to CR-LF, didn't you?

Other than that, I don't know. Send me a small Yarn mailbox and
I'll take a look.

-Ken

--
Kenneth Simler
Research Associate, Food and Nutrition Policy Program

Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA

kr...@mango.human.cornell.edu http://mango.human.cornell.edu/kens/