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Or would you prefer to import your Eudora archive into an application dedicated to archiving email? In this case, it doesn’t matter what you currently use for email, and if you still need to make a switch, you can do so cleanly, without worrying about bringing in the baggage of your years with Eudora. Do you want to import it into your current email client? This option assumes, of course, that you have already switched to another client from Eudora for your everyday email needs. First, you need to decide how you want to use your Eudora archive. Here’s how I’m going to organize all this, then, and you may have to do a little jumping around to find all the information you need. It’s more work, but you’ll end up with much cleaner, more predictable filters and an address book that isn’t weighed down by years of obsolete addresses. Note that I’m not going to talk about converting Eudora filters or address books at all even when it might be possible, I recommend you bite the bullet and start from scratch, refining your mailbox hierarchy and associated filters, and repopulating your address book from automatically captured senders (for my approach with filters in Gmail, see “ Zen and the Art of Gmail, Part 2: Labels & Filters,” 16 March 2011). Worse, some of the destinations require use of specific conversion utilities, so they can’t be considered completely independently. This is part of the reason I’ve put off writing this article for so long there are a number of different conversion utilities, and even more possible destination programs. There are two aspects to converting mail from Eudora: how you’ll convert it, and where you want it to end up. But while my Eudora archive may be larger than most, I strongly suspect that many people have been using Eudora for similar lengths of time and with similar sorts of corruption, which poses a significant challenge for import tools.

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My Eudora Folder is nearly 8 GB in size, and since it has grown organically over 18 years and innumerable updates to Eudora, having been moved from Mac to Mac repeatedly over that time, corruption is undoubtedly lurking within the files. The problem is that my Eudora Folder has somewhere approaching 1 million messages and thousands of attachments, stored in over 600 nested mailboxes. But like most Eudora users, I used POP because IMAP was relatively uncommon for a long time, and even after IMAP became more widely available, Eudora was never a very good IMAP client. The last 18 years, it would be trivial to point a different email program at my IMAP server.

Obviously, if I had used IMAP instead of POP over Of course, I could just read the mailboxes as text files in BBEdit, but that’s silly. I’ve eliminated the need to use Eudora for bulk mailing with added functionality in the TidBITS Publishing System and I can live without the alternative spelling check (or maybe I’ll try Spell Catcher), but I really need to move my email out of Eudora and into some other program.

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So I continued to use Eudora in small ways - sending bulk messages such as notifications of DealBITS drawing winners (I can’t imagine Gmail allowing a message with 900 recipients), spell-checking the weekly TidBITS issue in a Eudora window (since it sometimes catches mistakes that the Mac OS X spell checker misses), and retrieving the occasional old message from years in the past.Įnter Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, and exit Eudora, thanks to the loss of Rosetta, Apple’s clever software for enabling PowerPC software to run on Intel-based Macs (see “ Preparing for Lion: Find Your PowerPC Applications,” ).

Much as I like Gmail, there are certain things it can’t do that Eudora could, and there are the hundreds of thousands of messages I had stored in my local Eudora Folder. But after 18 years of using Eudora, I couldn’t just quit cold turkey. Throughout that time, I’ve been using Gmail - through the excellent Mailplane - for my everyday email (see “ Zen and the Art of Gmail, Part 1: Why I Switched,” 16 March 2011).

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