• Open Menu Close Menu
  • Apple
  • Shopping Bag
  • Apple
  • Mac
  • iPad
  • iPhone
  • Watch
  • TV
  • Music
  • Support
  • Search apple.com
  • Shopping Bag

Lists

Open Menu Close Menu
  • Terms and Conditions
  • Lists hosted on this site
  • Email the Postmaster
  • Tips for posting to public mailing lists
Re: Exporting Eudora mailboxes as text to structured folders
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: Exporting Eudora mailboxes as text to structured folders


  • Subject: Re: Exporting Eudora mailboxes as text to structured folders
  • From: Bill Briggs <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 10:28:34 -0300

Without knowing the motivation for doing so, I can't imagine why one would want to have them stored as individual files. They are easily and rapidly searched when in mailboxes, so one wonders what possible advantage could be gained by breaking them out as individual messages. There's at least one disadvantage - it would consume additional disk space.

It's been over 7 years since I did this, but I recall that I just moved the mailboxes from my then Windoze 3.11 machine to my new Mac and used them there. I expect that's still an option.

This plan sounds to me like a lot of grief with no payoff. Can you tell us why anyone would want to do it?

- web



At 2:08 PM +0100 20/09/02, Alex Robinson wrote:
Someone I know is in the midst of switching to OS X. He has a whole load of archived messages in Eudora on his Windows box. Ideally, he wants to end up with the messages as individual text files in hierarchical folders that reflect the mailbox structure. Unfortunately Eudora on Windows won't let him save a whole bunch of emails as separate text files so he would have to go through each and every one of them and save them individually.

Would it be possible to import the Eudora mailboxes as is to the mac and then run an applescript in Eudora that steps through the messages and saves/files them out to the correct folders? Or is there some better way of going about this?
_______________________________________________
applescript-users mailing list | email@hidden
Help/Unsubscribe/Archives: http://www.lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/applescript-users
Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.

  • Follow-Ups:
    • Re: Exporting Eudora mailboxes as text to structured folders
      • From: Alex Robinson <email@hidden>
References: 
 >Exporting Eudora mailboxes as text to structured folders (From: Alex Robinson <email@hidden>)

  • Prev by Date: Exporting Eudora mailboxes as text to structured folders
  • Next by Date: Re: Exporting Eudora mailboxes as text to structured folders
  • Previous by thread: Exporting Eudora mailboxes as text to structured folders
  • Next by thread: Re: Exporting Eudora mailboxes as text to structured folders
  • Index(es):
    • Date
    • Thread