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

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.

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…