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

Adam Rice has written a fine piece on the current shortcomings of Mail and how it could be made better.

It is more considered than the responses to TUAW’s “How Mail sucks” campaign and more comprehensive than the Talking Mail.app series, in which celebrities and developers were only allowed to nominate the one thing they disliked the most.

He divides his suggestions into two groups: one for things that are simply “broken” and need to be fixed, and another for areas in which a better Mail.app could be truly innovative.

Posts like this deserve to be read.mail.app, apple mail, shortcomings, bugs, improvements, threading, filters

You will remember that a few years ago Bill Gates promised that the spam problem would be solved in two years’ time.

That’s now. And Microsoft claims that Bill was right.

Ryan Hamlin, the General Manager of Microsoft’s Anti-spam Division argues:

“If you are a consumer that’s taking advantage of the technologies that exist … then the spam problem for you is solved. Bill didn’t say that there would be no spam. But he said the problem would be solved, and I think that is what we actually have accomplished.”

The premiss here is that what you don’t see, doesn’t exist.

Server-side and client spam filters are now so effective that users no longer see spam. What you don’t see doesn’t exist, so the problem’s solved.

Oh, happy day!

Now that the spam battle is over, you can spend your time reading more on this in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer or joining in the fun on Slashdot .