Re: Eudora migration: POP to IMAP to T-bird?

I believe that the one annoying bit is that Eudora won't let you
easily grab entire mailboxes from the local POPed archive and drag
them en masse over to the IMAP server.

Instead, you have to make a new destination mailbox on the IMAP
server, view the contents of the original source local mailbox in
Eudora, do a "select all" to select all messages in that one mailbox,
and then drag those multiply-selected messages to the new destination
IMAP box.

Not such a big deal if the user has only a couple of local boxes. A
much bigger deal if the user has many local boxes.

We actually have great luck with converting mailboxes, including
attachments, by using Eudora Mailbox Cleaner:

http://homepage.mac.com/aamann/Eudora_Mailbox_Cleaner.html

We've done Mac Eudora to Mac Thunderbird, but it says it supports
Windows Eudora to Thunderbird, so you should be ok -- but you would
need a Mac to run the application.

Oh -- be sure to purge/clean Eudora's mailboxes before converting, or
else "deleted" and "transferred" messages may reappear.

-Greg

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Received on Fri Sep 21 2007 - 09:22:34 PDT