Andreas Amann has updated his excellent conversion utility for Eudora, Mail.app and Thunderbird again.

The new version (4.6.1) features the following improvements and bugfixes:

1. it fixes a possible infinite loop when importing Thunderbird messages with inconsistent end-of-line characters within a single header.
2. Potential crashes due to corrupt Content-Type headers in multipart messages have been fixed.
3. It no longer produces a malformed rules file for Mail.app when importing Eudora filters based on «Label».
4. When importing mailboxes from Windows, it now removes folder/mailbox suffixes in all caps.

Andreas has also produced a chart that shows EMC’s conversion abilities:

It can convert from Eudora to Mail.app, from Eudora to Thunderbird and from Thunderbird to Mail.app. Very handy indeed.

Andreas makes this software available for free but does not refuse donations from satisfied users. You can get Eudora Mailbox Cleaner — and his excellent Mail Scripts — from his web site .eudora, thunderbird, mail.app, apple mail, converting, mailboxes, filters, email addresses, switching

CosmicSoft has written an app that will convert emails in Mail 2.0′s new emlx format back into the standard mbox format.

The app’s readme file claims that,

…if you need to recover from a hard drive crash, it’s almost impossible to recover your mail messages easily since Mail won’t import emlx files and you can’t add them to your mailboxes any other way.

It is true that importing emlx messages is not one of the default options in Mail.app’s “Import” menu, but there is a simple work-around that will import your emlx emails without the trouble of converting them into the mbox first.

Still, this app could be useful if you are thinking of abandoning Apple Mail for some other email client. Perish the thought!

You can download it from CosmicSoft’s website.

UPDATE: New version (1.0.3) released, 23 December 2005.emlx, mbox, converting, mail.app, apple mail, utilities, switching, mailboxes