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Eudora Mailbox Cleaner... Eudora mailboxes do not adhere to the standard mbox format which makes importing into other applications somewhat of a pain - the default import function for Eudora mailboxes of most mail client thus exhibit some problems, namely:

  • Most HTML and rich-text messages are not imported properly (you see all formatting tags instead of the properly formatted message)
  • All messages are imported as "unread," i.e., the original message status flags are ignored
  • Attachments in the messages are lost
  • Sent messages might lose their original date and show the date of import instead
  • There is no straightforward way for importing Eudora's nicknames into the MacOS X Address Book
  • There is no option for importing Eudora's filters

'Eudora Mailbox Cleaner' solves these problems by providing an alternate, direct import of mailboxes from Eudora into Mail or Thunderbird. Furthermore, it migrates Eudora's filters into Mail rules and directly imports Eudora nickname files into the Mac OS X Address Book or the current Thunderbird profile.

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WHAT'S NEW

New features:

  • Improved handling of attachments with long names - if the original file cannot be found (file's inode on disk has changed) the application now tries to find the attachment based on the partial filename available. If only one possible match is found it will be used, in case of multiple possible matches none of them will be attached in order not to re-attach the wrong file (either case will be logged in the conversion log file).

Improvements/bugfixes:

  • Improve parsing of full names within mailing lists to recognize additional formats.
  • Improve parsing of message headers to more closely adhere to RFC2822: no space required after the colon and allow comments after the actual date without claiming invalid dates.
  • Improve EOL detection when importing messages from Thunderbird to Mail - apparently EOLs can change at any point and not only in the message headers.
  • Properly recode 8-bit characters in Thunderbird message headers (use ISO-Latin1 instead of MacRoman as the default encoding).
  • Fix hang/crash when parsing quoted HTML messages which have been quoted using full message headers.
  • Make "mark as read" filters work correctly after import to Mail.
  • Properly escape custom header contents when importing filters to avoid Mail from rejecting all rules due to malformed XML data.
  • Properly recover inline parts with escaped characters in the file name (i.e., use "Image 1.jpg" when the message calls for "Image%201.jpg").
  • Fix wrong character re-encoding for some Unicode messages (denoted as by Eudora).
  • Fix potential application hang when the last message in a mailbox was corrupt.
  • Fix application hang when importing from Thunderbird and the last message in a mailbox contained no message body.
  • Fix potential crash when importing an Eudora message with an empty "Subject:" header with no space following the colon.
  • Minor tweaks to the log file format to provide more information for missing attachments and to allow for easier filtering using the search box in the Console application.
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.2 or later.
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Developer:Andreas Amann
Downloads:15,745
  - Version d/l:775
Internet:Email
License:Free
Date:06 Apr 2009
Platform:PPC
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    Eudora Mailbox Cleaner User Reviews (9 posts)Write A Review
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    Apr 6 2009
    *****

    ODYSSEUS  The best utility for converting Eudora mailboxes for Mail. It's not perfect -- Eudora actually discards information, making some changes irreversible -- but this is about as good as it gets.  
    (Version 4.9)

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    Sep 11 2005
    *****

    PEACEFREAK  Totally Amazing... I think the crash problem has been ironed out as I have just finished importing dozens of mailboxes, including some from an old Japanese Eudora without a hickup. Thank you so much. I have sent my donation to Andreas... What a guy!!  
    (Version 4.5)

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    Nov 21 2004
    *****

    DANGEROUS DAVE  This program saved my bacon tonight. I have tried to upgrade to mail.app for almost 2 years. I always had import problems. I have been using eudora since 1994 and yes i still have mails that old. Some of the database is even corrupt. Long story short I had all the issues mentioned, missing emails, incorrect dates etc. It made it a nightmare. Today i tried downloading the new eudora and it deleted my licensed version 5. So guess what, i searched, found this program and it was the missing bullet i needed. IT worked as advertised. I ran the filter program and address program included and I am set.

    So I went ahead, setup gmail pop AND important my entourage mail and now Im on 1 program for my emails FINALLY! this thing was perfect!

    Goodbye Eudora you were a good friend!  
    (Version 4.1.1)

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    Apr 27 2004
    *****

    TXNOLE  This is an outstanding program. I have been reluctant to switch from Eudora to Mail for sometime. I hated losing all of my attachments and didn't look forward to the long process of switching my address book.

    This did it in 2 seconds ... no looking back.

    This is a great program ...  
    (Version 3.2.2)

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    Sep 11 2006
    ****.

    BCWINTERS  I've tried a few times to abandon Eudora for greener pastures but other clients have always choked on several hundred megabytes of mboxes. This weekend I tried to make the switch to Mail.app again, this time using Eudora Mailbox Cleaner.

    This time it was a success!

    My many, many mailboxes made the transfer swimmingly although two (out of perhaps 200) were truncated and missing some mail. A quick re-import of those individual mailboxes and all was well. This could easily have been a Eudora issue (I was suffering from some mailbox corruption, hence the switch!) but bear in mind that if you use EMC you may have to do some manual checking to make sure everything is intact.

    I had two other minor problems: although colors are imported in rule sets, existing colors/labels applied to messages are NOT transferred. And the "Rebuild Mailbox" Applescript choked about 3/4 of the way through my mailboxes and I had to do the remaining boxes individually by hand.

    All in all, it took me about an hour to get everything set up perfectly in Mail.app while I'm sure it would have been MUCH longer without this great little utility. Don't even attempt to make the switch without it--but just make sure you check everything one last time before deleting your Eudora files!  
    (Version 4.7.1)

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    Jun 7 2005
    ****.

    RS  Keeps crashing on one particular mailbox (Tiger 10.4.1, Mail 2.0.1, Eudora 6.2.1). Works flawlessly otherwise. Extremely fast.  
    (Version 4.3.1)

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    Apr 16 2003

    ANDY  helps import mailboxes and individual Eudora email addresses into mail.app, but not groups or nicknames. Too bad,  
    (Version 2.7.1)

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    Mar 24 2002

    ANONYMOUS  Good app. But I want to point out that Mr Mail2Entourage can import whole mailboxes from Mail.app into Entourage in a way that no data is corrupted. It is also for free.  
    (Version 2.2.2)

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    Jan 28 2002

    DISAPPOINTED  Version 1.1 simply didn't function. It stalled repeatedly on the first record and never recovered. The intention is excellent. The functionality is amateurish.  
    (Version 1.1)

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