Hawk Wings has covered Emailchemy before.

It can convert emails and mailboxes from an astonishing number of email clients (AOL for Windows, Claris Emailer, CompuServe Classic for Macintosh, CompuServe 2000 for Windows, Entourage (Database, .rge Archives and cache files), Eudora, Mail.app, Mozilla, Mulberry, Musashi, Neoplanet, Netscape, Opera, Outlook for Windows, Outlook Express for Macintosh, Windows and UNIX/Solaris, PowerTalk/AOCE for Macintosh, QuickMail Pro for Macintosh and Windows, Thunderbird, Yahoo! Mail and any other UNIX-style or mbox-format mailbox—whew!) into “mbox” format, mail spool, or “UNIX-style” mailboxes, folders of individual email files (.txt or .eml files), comma-separated value files (.csv files), IMAPdir (Binc IMAP maildir) or Maildir++ (Courier IMAP maildir) format, or IMAP formats usable by Outlook, Outlook Express, Entourage, Mail.app, and Thunderbird.

Matt recounts how he moved from his beginnings in mail on UNIX (in 1990, when I was still fooling around on a PC with Waffle, Fidonet and UUCP email) through a dizzying sequence of email clients mandated by “corporate policy” at work and the march of software progress at home:

I went from using Eudora at work to using Apple’s PowerTalk, and from that to using WordPerfect Office (aka Groupwise), Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Notes, and finally Microsoft Outlook. Then, to further complicate matters, I went from using Eudora at home to using Apple’s PowerTalk, Claris Emailer, and Netscape Mail, back to Eudora again, and then finally Apple’s Mail.app that came with Mac OS X.

It’s all very nostalgic! No wonder he ended up with “years of archived email saved in files created by several different applications that no other application could read.”

That’s enough to convert anyone into an ardent disciple of open formats.

If you are in the same bind, Emailchemy (shareware — USD 29.50) may well be the tool for you. email, mbox, old emails, emailchemy, mail.app, apple mail. thinderbird, eudora, claris emailer, entourage, convertor, unix, the good old daysSimilar Posts:

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• iPhoto Mailer Patcher in iPhoto 5

iPhoto Mailer Patcher is an AppleScript-based utility for iPhoto that allows you to set Claris Emailer, GyazMail, Mailsmith, Outlook Express, PowerMail or QuickMail Pro as the default email client to which iPhoto sends resized images for you to email.

By default, iPhoto only supports Eudora, Mail.app, Entourage and AOL.

But the Patcher only works with iPhoto 4. To get it work with iPhoto 5 you will need to follow the instructions left by the developer Simon Jacquier in the comments to the original post.

The instructions and some screenshots follow the jump.

1. Open the iPhoto package by Command-clicking on its icon in your Applications folder and Selecting “Show package contents”
2. Browse to Contents/Resources/ and find the ClientAppSignatures.plist.
3. Open it (make a backup first) and add these lines just before the < /dict > tag:
   <key>Claris Emailer</key>
   <string>MMan</string>
   <key>GyazMail</key>
   <string>GYML</string>
   <key>Mailsmith</key>
   <string>BLTO</string>
   <key>Outlook Express</key>
   <string>MSNM</string>
   <key>PowerMail</key>
   <string>Cmlt</string>
   <key>QuickMail Pro</key>
   <string>CeLP</string>

   Here:

   
4. Download the patch for iPhoto 4 and open its package (as above in Step 1)
5. Dig inside and you will find an AppleScript and a TIFF file for each of the mail clients.

   Take the two files for your preferred client and drop them in iPhoto’s Contents/Resources/Script folder. Or take all of them. You never know how fashions will change.

If all goes well, at the end you will see the following drop down box in the General Pane of iPhoto’s Preferences and can select the mail client of your choice:

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All the same, Emailchemy is a life-saver for people who have been using email for a long time and have moved through many clients and platforms.

Emailchemy will convert emails from popular and obsolete email clients into formats that Apple Mail and other clients can read. It converts email from an astonishing range of formats (listed after the jump):

• AOL for Windows (“PFC” files)
• Claris Emailer 1.x for Macintosh
• Claris Emailer 2.x for Macintosh
• Entourage
• Eudora
• Mac OS X Mail
• Mozilla
• Mulberry
• Neoplanet
• Netscape
• Opera 4, 5, 6 & 7
• Outlook Express 4 and 5 for Macintosh
• Outlook Express 4, 5 & 6 for Windows
• Outlook Express 5 for UNIX/Solaris
• PowerTalk/AOCE for Macintosh
• QuickMail Pro for Macintosh
• QuickMail Pro for Windows
• Yahoo! Mail
• any UNIX-style or mbox-format mailbox

into a useful set of formats:

• RFC-2822 mailboxes (“mbox” format or “UNIX-style”)
• Folders of individual RFC-2822 email files (.txt or .eml files)
• Comma-separated value files (.csv files)
• Maildir (qmail)
• Maildir++ (Courier IMAP)
• Variations of the RFC-2822 mbox mailboxes that are directly usable by:

• Mac OS X Mail (aka “Mail.app”)
• Eudora
• Mozilla (including Netscape and Thunderbird)

It can clean, repair and condense mailboxes and prepare them for archiving or entry into a stand-alone database. It costs USD 25 for a single user and is available from the developer’s website .mailboxes, conversion, mbox, old email clients, Eudora, thunderbird, mail.app, apple mail, Claris Emailer, outlook express, emailSimilar Posts:

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