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Full Marks for Eudora Mailbox Cleaner

EMCDavid Carpe of Gmail Pro and passingnotes emails to say what an excellent app Eudora Mailbox Cleaner is, and how easily it helped him to move from Eudora for Windows to Mail.app on his new Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro.

In short, he says, Andreas Amann’s app is “flawless, perfect”, although he takes the opportunity to point out a few things.

In particular, he recommends patience:

The first part—dragging it all, setting up folders, etc, and then dragging the whole ‘Eudora folder’ onto the cleaner only took about an hour or so, but the script to rebuild boxes can take longer. It took me a couple of hours. Do NOT interrupt it. My advice is to turn off all other programs and just walk away and let it do it’s thing.

Secondly, he notes something specific to Eudora for Windows switchers:

For nicknames: Many Eudora for Windows users will be scratching their heads about ‘nndbase.txt’ in the instructions as it doesn’t exist in the new version. It’s actually a different file type. I pinged Andreas about this. What I did (and yes, this worked flawlessly) was drag the entire Eudora for Windows into the folder that I had created called ‘eudora folder’ (as per Andreas’ instructions). Then when I dragged that whole thing onto the cleaner the dialogue box popped up. I simply deselected everything except ‘import nicknames’ and voila, they were all inside my address book within about two minutes. I did this last, after doing all of my mail and attachments.

Anyone reading this and teetering on the edge, might like to know that Eudora Mailbox Cleaner also does a terrific job for people coming over from Thunderbird.

I’m not going to make any snide remarks about someone who runs a Gmail site switching to Mail.app. No, not one.

I’ll just join with him and many others in thanking the developers who make such great plugins and utilities available to normal users like me. Mail.app wouldn’t be half the app it is without them, and they don’t get thanked enough.

Soppy, but true.

“Thank you a million times over, Andreas,” David says.eudora for windows, thunderbird, mail.app, apple mail, gmail, email, switching, nicknames, kiss a developer day

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4 Responses to “Full Marks for Eudora Mailbox Cleaner”

  1. dave says:
    November 9th, 2006 at 2:30 am

    hey, thanks for posting this! glad that andreas is seeing some more visibility for his hard work…

    as for that gmail site, well, errr…i like web mail, but really i need to be able to compose offline and do a lot more than label, so i’m using gmail in thirds (time) – local (mail.app), mobile (on a treo) and via web interface (standard)….

    however, mail.app is really slick, very impressed coming over from eudora – but there’s one simple feature that i really, really, really miss:

    how does one replicate the “fcc” function – like ‘bcc’ but instead during composition one can simply assign a copy to be placed into a local folder via navigation…i just don’t see it, nor a plugin…

  2. Tim Gaden says:
    November 9th, 2006 at 9:07 pm

    hehehe… Fair enough. I’m sorry. I just couldn’t resist, but I quite understand.

    I think you are going to be out of luck with the fcc function, unless you cc it to a Gmail account set to forward to mail.app and then filter it as it comes back in with a mail.app rule. But that sounds complicated and might not be worth it.

  3. kevin says:
    June 22nd, 2007 at 4:01 pm

    This sounds great, because twice now we’ve had mail.app hang AND corrupt the entire hard drive while importing large Windows Eurdora mbx’s. Anything has got to be better than that abuse.

  4. Grant says:
    November 1st, 2007 at 1:43 pm

    Hi,
    I just recently realized what a good app Mail.app is. I’ve been using Tbird on my Macbook for a long time and decided to use mail.app.

    I tried Eudora Mailbox Cleaner to import my tbird mail. I also tried renaming the tbird mail to mbox as described on the net.

    However, both approaches can’t seem to import my Tbird Sent folder (sent mailbox) to Mail.app. Can anyone help me out with this? I have tons of sent messages I frequently refer to & therefore want to move to Mail.app.

    Thanks!!

    Using OSX10.4.10
    Mail.app 2.1.1 (752.3)

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