Switching from Eudora for Windows to Mail.app

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

The answer is easy (especially as Andreas Amann, the developer of Eudora Mailbox Cleaner has already written out the answer):

1. Copy your Windows Eudora data folder onto a USB stick or something similar so that you can move it to your Mac.
2. [UPDATE: It emerges that there is an imtermediate step in here, too complicated to make into a bullet point but not complicated enough to make the process difficult. Details in EMC's readme file - Thanks, Dave].
3. Drop the complete Eudora data folder onto Eudora Mailbox Cleaner and wait for the conversion to finish.

Eudora Mailbox Cleaner also offers easy transitions from Thunderbird (Mac, Windows or Linux):

It’s freeware (donations from grateful users not turned away) and available from Andreas’ web site .

[Thanks, Andreas :)]mail.app, apple mail, eudora, switching, conversion, mailboxes, email, thunderbird

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2 Responses to “Switching from Eudora for Windows to Mail.app”

1. dave says:
   October 20th, 2006 at 11:47 pm

   thank you so much for posting this distinct follow up – hadn’t been on the site in days and i was shocked by the inflammatory comment on the other post…i’ve actually emailed andreas in the past and he was great, very responsive, answered some q’s, offered future assistance if needed, and explained how his solution worked..

   after looking over tons of options and alternatives, it is clear that this is absolutely the way to do it….

   i’m still a bit confused – i understood the old way involved creating three folders of eudora content (attachments, messages etc) with specific spelling and capitalization before moving to the app…

   anybody willing to provide a detailed walkthrough with screenshots? eg. “first i downloaded this and installed it, here’s a screenshot of the app, then i created these folders etc” ?

   this is obviously a bit item for me and potentially many other eudora users as qualcomm has announced that they are dropping eudora and migrating to open source but around thunderbird…and i’d rather move to a mac (perhaps) and stick with mail.app and not thunderbird…

2. Andreas Amann says:
   October 21st, 2006 at 3:06 am

   i’m still a bit confused – i understood the old way involved creating three folders of eudora content (attachments, messages etc) with specific spelling and capitalization before moving to the app…

   Oops, you are of course correct – this step is still required. I guess I made it look a little too easy. There are step-by-step instructions in the Read Me (no pics though)

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