Emailchemy 1.8: Amazing conversion utility adds four new email tools

Emailchemy is an amazing utility that can convert mailboxes from a vast array of email clients (ranging from most currently in use to others long forgotten) into any one of the following formats:

RFC-2822 mailboxes (”mbox” format or “UNIX-style”) and variants, folders of individual RFC-2822 email files (.txt or .eml files), Comma-separated value files (.csv files), Maildir (qmail) and Maildir++ (Courier IMAP).

A new updated version (1.8) adds a “toolbox” option to the app’s main screen:

The new utilities offer useful extra additional conversion grunt:

1. IMAP ImportServer - import your converted mail into your new email software using this desktop mail server.
2. Mailbox Splitter - split large mbox files by message count or file size
3. Address Harvester - extract email addresses from almost any file
4. Mac OS X Mail Cleaner - clean out files leftover from the Tiger upgrade

Emailchemy is shareware (USD 28 for a single user) and is available from the developer’s web site .

Tags: conversion, email, imap, mailboxes, Maildir, mbox, old email clients

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9 Responses to “Emailchemy 1.8: Amazing conversion utility adds four new email tools”

1. Mithras says:
   October 19th, 2006 at 2:04 am

   Looks neat, but what in G-d’s name is going on with those button icons? I’d guess the one on the top left has to do with a birthday party for an email address, or maybe punishing a naughty address that’s been wearing brass knuckles?

2. dave says:
   October 19th, 2006 at 2:27 am

   any idea what the best solution is for switching from eudora on a windows machine to mail.app on a mac? i know that andreas’ switcher is supposed to get it all done, wondering if there’s a more simple way, or if emailchemy can do it….

3. Sean says:
   October 20th, 2006 at 12:16 am

   I tried this a long time ago. I had problems, and asked the author of the program for assistance. Instead I got some letter filled with hate. I think the guy is a jerk and personally wouldn’t trust anything from him.

4. Tim says:
   October 20th, 2006 at 10:41 am

   Gosh. I’ve never has any dealings with him at all, but that sounds bad.

5. Andreas Amann says:
   October 20th, 2006 at 1:05 pm

   any idea what the best solution is for switching from eudora on a windows machine to mail.app on a mac? i know that andreas’ switcher is supposed to get it all done, wondering if there’s a more simple way, or if emailchemy can do it….

   Of course I might be a little biased but here is my answer to that question nevertheless:-)

   Conversion using Eudora Mailbox Cleaner
   - copy your Windows Eudora data folder onto a USB stick or something similar so that you can move it to your Mac
   - drop the complete Eudora data folder onto Eudora Mailbox Cleaner and wait for the conversion to finish
   Conversion using Emailchemy
   - use Emailchemy to convert your Eudora mailboxes to standard mbox format (which of course requires getting them to your Mac first too)
   - import those mbox files into Mail
   - deal with the fact that all messages show up as unread in Mail and that AFAIK you won’t have migrated your addresses or filters and might get lots of funky messages if you have any correspondence with non-ASCII characters

   I’ll leave if up to you to decide what you would consider an “easy way” and whether or not you would want to pay for Emailchemy to give it a try…

6. Tim says:
   October 20th, 2006 at 5:41 pm

   That must be one of the most diplomatic and helpful posts ever made on Hawk Wings :)

7. Hawk Wings » Blog Archive » Switching from Eudora for Windows to Mail.app says:
   October 20th, 2006 at 9:13 pm

   [...] In a comment on another Hawk Wings post, Dave asks how to switch his email over from Eudora for Windows to Mail.app. [...]

8. Matt says:
   November 30th, 2006 at 9:16 am

   “A letter full of hate”, eh? If you remember, you started out by calling me a liar and accusing me of blackmail and deceit in your “request” for assistance.

   I happily answer all requests for assistance, and I even offer to convert mail for those who are having trouble. But, like many people, I don’t respond well to unwarranted attack.

9. Matt says:
   November 30th, 2006 at 9:22 am

   Andreas,

   As for the conversion from Eudora, Eudora Mailbox Cleaner works for some people, but the big issue you will run into with this scenario is that your attachments will probably be missing because of the hard pathname links to locations on the windows C: drive.

   Admittedly, Emailchemy does not work on filters or address books, but Emailchemy does rejoin the attachments into properly formatted MIME enclosures and tries to fix the missing MIME data for handling special characters.

   For a more objective comparison, the process for both tools is about the same:

   1) copy files to Mac by any means
   2) run the conversion tool
   3) import the converted data into Mail.

   The difference is that Emailchemy is cross-platform, so you could convert before or after you move the data to the Mac. And, Emailchemy gives you several options for importing the mail into the destination program (Mail.app):

   1) convert to standard mbox
   2) convert to Mail.app format
   3) use the embedded IMAP server

   Anyway, I think this blog is very useful for users of Mail.app, and I hope it continues to flourish.

   Thanks,

   Matt

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