importing attachments

G

gunther

does anyone know if it's possible to import attachments from eudora.
i'm making the switch to entourage 2004 and would love to be able to
bring all my attachments in too. under a normal import, it doesn't
work.
 
P

Paul Berkowitz

does anyone know if it's possible to import attachments from eudora.
i'm making the switch to entourage 2004 and would love to be able to
bring all my attachments in too. under a normal import, it doesn't
work.
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That's because Eudora itself strips the attachments and sticks them in an
Attachments folder. There's nothing Entourage can do about that - they're
not in the encoded messages. It's the same thing if you bring over Eudora
mailbox files, change the extension to .mbox, and drag them into Entourage.
No attachments. That's because they're not in Eudora's mailbox files. You'd
have to go to a Eudora mailing list and find out if some AppleScript (there
are some _really_ advanced Eudora scripters) has scripted some sort of MBOX
export encoding attachments back in. I don't know that that's possible,
however.

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B

Barry Wainwright

That's because Eudora itself strips the attachments and sticks them in an
Attachments folder. There's nothing Entourage can do about that - they're
not in the encoded messages. It's the same thing if you bring over Eudora
mailbox files, change the extension to .mbox, and drag them into Entourage.
No attachments. That's because they're not in Eudora's mailbox files. You'd
have to go to a Eudora mailing list and find out if some AppleScript (there
are some _really_ advanced Eudora scripters) has scripted some sort of MBOX
export encoding attachments back in. I don't know that that's possible,
however.
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I used to do a lot of Eudora scripting, and while it was theoretically
possible to find linked attachments from wherever they were moved to (and
Eudora's filters allowed you to specify different destinations for the
attachments of filtered mail), I would dread to try and re-engineer an RFC
compliant mail message with an encoded attachment included. It would be a
mammoth task, and one that would be highly susceptible to breaking if the
chain of links was disturbed in any way.
 
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