Re: Eudora migration: POP to IMAP to T-bird?

I've had pretty reasonable luck using Thunderbird's import utility when
importing Eudora mailboxes. It has even preserved the attachments.
This might be hit or miss though.

Rob Weinberg wrote:
> A Eudora to T-Bird migration question. If I try to convert Eudora
> mailboxes to T-Bird mailboxes, there are the usual problems, including
> for sure dissociation of attachments - that is, emails in the new T-Bird
> mailboxes won't be connected to their old attachments.
>
>
> Given a user with Eudora POP (very common). Also given that their total
> mail storage on their local computer is less than 250 megabytes
> (questionable but possible).
>
> Has anyone tried this? (I have no idea if it would work so perhaps you
> can save me the time . . . ):
>
>
> 1) Change the Eudora account to an IMAP account (can this be done for an
> existing account?) Then, I expect Eudora will display two sets of mail
> folders: "local" mail and the IMAP server mail.
>
> 2) In Eudora, can you do as you could in T-Bird, and just drag the local
> mail folders up to the server?
>
> 3) If so, you could then fire up T-Bird and you should see all the mail
> that was formerly in Eudora local mailboxes, now available on the
> server. Thus email has been transferred to T-Bird with attachments intact.
>
>
> I'm guessing that the most likely fail point is step 2, since Eudora
> would have to re-associated emails with stored attachments before
> sending them up to the server, or may simply not provide the ability to
> drag mail folders to the server. But I haven't tried it.
>
> thanks -
> Rob
>

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