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From: Daniel /DD on 18 May 2010 09:38
Hi John,

thanks a LOT !! I managed to restore the state of 4-29 in Eudora 8, so
all and everything is back. Great ! (I lost all mails of 1994 to 2003
in a hardware driver crash once, which taught me a lesson)

Do You even know of a way to export the profile with all its data in a
format that I can reimport into old Eudora 7 ?

Thanks again, bye,
Daniel


On 7 Mai, 16:16, John H Meyers <jhmey...(a)nomail.invalid> wrote:
> On 5/6/2010 3:06 PM, Daniel /DD wrote:
>
> > Where does Eudora 8 store its data ?
>
> In a Thunderbird "profile" (because "E8" is an enhanced Thunderbird)
>
> > I did see a lot of .toc and .mbx files,
> > but those may have been from the previous Eudora 6 installation
>
> Indeed they are; Thunderbird (and thus E8) do not use those filename extensions.
>
> Default locations for TB under XP (perhaps slightly different
> if TB had never been installed?) would be under
> "C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Thunderbird"
> (or under a similar E8 folder if there's no "Thunderbird"?)
>
> In which file "profiles.ini" would identify the specific current profile
> by its "relative" path, usually within a "Profiles" subfolder of the above.
>
> The mail itself would normally be
> under the specific current profile,
> under a "Mail" subfolder of that,
> in account subfolders of that,
> with mailbox "message" files having no extension,
> mailbox "index" data files having extension ".msf"
> and mailbox "subfolders" (if any) having extension ".sbd"
>
> "How To Manage Profiles"http://www.mozilla.org/support/thunderbird/profile
>
> "Profile Manager"http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_Manager
>
> "Using Multiple Profiles"http://support.mozillamessaging.com/bg/kb/Using+Multiple+Profiles
>
> Note how TB documentation is so well dispersed :)
>
> You could try starting the built-in "profile manager" via command line:
> drive:\....\Eudora[8].exe -ProfileManager
>
> --

From: John H Meyers on 20 May 2010 16:10
On 5/18/2010 8:38 AM, Daniel /DD wrote:

> Do you know of a way to export the [TB/E8] profile with all its data
> in a format that I can re-import into old Eudora 7 ?

One possibility for transferring mail:
E8 -> IMAP server (mailboxes or "Inbox") -> E7

Any free Gmail account is capable of acting as an IMAP server.

If you have a "shell account" on a mail server
(or can run a mail server on your own computer),
and if said server uses "MBOX" style files to store mail,
then the first step above can also be arranged that way.

Or, if you can write a "script" in your own computer
which "splits" TB/E8 mailboxes into individual message files,
naming the files NNNNNNNN.RCV (eight digits NNNNNNNN),
you can transfer those files to Eudora's "spool" directory,
which Eudora will automatically digest,
as if read from a POP server.

Or try some commercial "mail transfer" product.

Examples (none of which I've ever used myself):

http://www.weirdkid.com/products/emailchemy/ $30-$50
http://www.weirdkid.com/products/importserver/ $20 (optional)

http://www.aid4mail.com/ $25-$35
http://www.aid4mail.com/specifications.php#formats

The above convert only mail, not address books, filters, etc.

"Address Magic Personal" converts address books,
also email in "plus" version,
does not convert directly to Eudora MBX,
but says it can convert to EML files,
which can be fed into Eudora's "spool" after renaming (see above)
http://www.connectedsw.com/Overview/57262 $50 for "Plus" version

Investigate any product to find out whether it handles attachments
(which remain within messages in TB/E8, are separated in Eudora).

Note that the "Import Server" scheme should handle this perfectly,
in the TB/E8 -> E7 direction, because Eudora would be digesting messages
by reading them directly from a "POP server," and the original TB/E8 messages
still contain all attachments, etc., having been stored by TB/E8
in "original source" format (internet standard "message/rfc822" format)

The same should be true of any scheme which splits TB/E8 mailboxes
into individual messages and drops them (suitably renamed)
into Eudora's "spool" folder.

--
From: John H Meyers on 20 May 2010 16:19
I forgot to mention that E7's "Advanced Import"
says it can import from "Netscape" -- there's a chance
that this might cover Mozilla and TB/E8,
but again, I have no direct experience with this.

--

From: John H Meyers on 24 May 2010 04:53
About importing from Thunderbird/"Eudora 8" into "classic" Eudora (e.g. 7.1):

Found this old article, looked promising:

FAQ: Import from Thunderbird / Pocomail /INCREDIMAIL
(by former forum moderator "Copenhagen" on 2005.06.21, updated 2007.01.08)
http://eudorabb.qualcomm.com/showthread.php?p=12130#post12130

--

From: Ajo Wissink on 24 May 2010 09:15
On Mon, 24 May 2010 03:53:24 -0500, John H Meyers
<jhmeyers(a)nomail.invalid> wrote:

>(by former forum moderator "Copenhagen" on 2005.06.21, updated 2007.01.08)

Copenhagen doesn't visit the forum very often, but still is a
moderator.
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