Re: Converting Eudora to Mail: Importing Mailboxes

From	Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.apps, comp.mail.eudora.mac
Subject	Re: Converting Eudora to Mail: Importing Mailboxes
Date	2017-10-16 20:59 +0000
Organization	Miskatonic U
Message-ID	<slrnoua7da.2fit.g.kreme@snow.local> (permalink)
References	<1ndyin6.o1aqe71sg5bffN%csampson@inetworld.net> <151020172302578555%leoblaisdell@sbcglobal.net>

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In message <151020172302578555%leoblaisdell@sbcglobal.net> Leonard Blaisdell <leoblaisdell@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> In article <1ndyin6.o1aqe71sg5bffN%csampson@inetworld.net>, Charles H.
> Sampson <csampson@inetworld.net> wrote:

>> I'm still experimenting with converting Eudora to Apple Mail. I'm
>> afforded the ability to import mailboxes. It appears that this means
>> exactly that. Only mailboxes are imported, address books and filters are
>> not. Am I right?

> I converted to Mail during OSX Panther. I left Eudora then, and it
> broke my heart. What I do remember is that I lost all Eudora email
> pictures. It never occurred to me, and I didn't have a backup when I
> converted to OSX.  It would help to save the whole Eudora data folder
> minus Eudora. The mailboxes and mail came through conversion just fine,
> but the attached pictures couldn't relate. Best I can do. I didn't do
> it right. I can still read what was my Eudora email within Mail from
> that time, but the pictures are gone.

This is because Eudora removed the attachments and stored them
separately.

> I didn't have address books or filters back then. I only cared about
> the photos I lost. I think there's a "Attachments" folder that you
> really want to save, but it's been a long time.

Yep.

-- 
she [Esk] was already learning that if you ignore the rules people will,
half the time, quietly rewrite them so they don't apply to you. --Equal
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Converting Eudora to Mail: Importing Mailboxes csampson@inetworld.net (Charles H. Sampson) - 2017-10-15 22:17 -0700
  Re: Converting Eudora to Mail: Importing Mailboxes Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2017-10-16 18:50 +1300
  Re: Converting Eudora to Mail: Importing Mailboxes Leonard Blaisdell <leoblaisdell@sbcglobal.net> - 2017-10-15 23:02 -0700
    Re: Converting Eudora to Mail: Importing Mailboxes Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2017-10-16 19:41 +1300
      Re: Converting Eudora to Mail: Importing Mailboxes csampson@inetworld.net (Charles H. Sampson) - 2017-10-21 08:40 -0700
        Re: Converting Eudora to Mail: Importing Mailboxes nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-10-21 11:46 -0400
    Re: Converting Eudora to Mail: Importing Mailboxes Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2017-10-16 20:59 +0000
  Re: Converting Eudora to Mail: Importing Mailboxes Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2017-10-16 09:47 +0100
  Re: Converting Eudora to Mail: Importing Mailboxes Andreas Rutishauser <andreas@macandreas.ch> - 2017-10-16 18:08 +0200
  Re: Converting Eudora to Mail: Importing Mailboxes Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-10-16 16:19 +0000

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