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<h1>Eudora2Unix</h1>
<hr />
<p>
<a href="http://eudora2unix.sourceforge.net"><img src="Eudora2Unix.png" alt="Eudora2Unix Home Page" width="248" height="69" /></a>
<a href="http://sourceforge.net"> <img src="http://sourceforge.net/sflogo.php?group_id=68238&type=5" width="210" height="62" alt="SourceForge Logo" /></a>
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<p>
Welcome to the Eudora to Unix (Eudora2Unix) page!
</p>
<h2>Description</h2>
<p>
Eudora2Unix is a collection of Python scripts that together convert
<a href="http://www.eudora.com">Qualcomm Eudora</a> mail folders
to standard mailbox formats for unix or Linux.
</p>
<p>
The mail clients <a href="http://www.washington.edu/pine/">Pine</a> and
<a href="http://kmail.kde.org">KMail</a> are explicitly supported. I have
also tried the output with <a href="http://balsa.gnome.org">Balsa</a>, which
uses a mailbox structure similar to Pine's.
</p>
<p>
Beyond doctoring the Eudora mail messages to be in mbox format,
Eudora2Unix preserves information that Eudora does not store in the
mailbox files. This information includes status info (whether a
message has been read or not), message priority, attachments, and
embedded message components. For the Windows 3.x versions, it uses
other auxiliary files to correctly rename folders and files from their
8-character DOS names to the names that appear in Eudora.
</p>
<p>
These scripts are placed under the
<a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html">GNU General Public License</a>
and are free software, both as in freedom and as in beer.<br />
This software is also listed at
<a href="http://freshmeat.net/projects/eudora2unix/">Freshmeat</a>.
</p>
<p>
<big><strong><a href="details.html">Details about Eudora2Unix</a></strong></big>.
</p>
<p>
<big><strong><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/eudora2unix/">SourceForge Project Page</a></strong></big>
(bug reports, older versions, more details, etc)
</p>
<h2>Download</h2>
<p>
The current version requires Python 2.5 or later:
<kbd><a href="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/eudora2unix/eudora2unix-2.0.tar.gz?download">eudora2unix-2.0.tar.gz</a></kbd>
</p>
<p>
For older versions of Python (back to 1.5.2), use this separate branch
<kbd><a href="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/eudora2unix/eudora2unix-backport-1.1.tar.gz?download">eudora2unix-backport-1.1.tar.gz</a></kbd>
</p>
<h2>The scripts</h2>
<ul>
<li><p><kbd>Eudora2Unix.py</kbd> - Eudora mail folder tree walker</p>
<p>
Main script that loops over the Eudora folders and calls the next
script, <kbd>Eudora2Mbox.py</kbd>, for each mailbox therein.
It then creates mailbox files / folders in any of several standard Linux/Unix formats.
</p>
</li>
<li><p><kbd>Eudora2Mbox.py</kbd> - Eudora to unix mailbox converter</p>
<p>
Converts a Eudora mailbox to any of several Linux/Unix mailbox formats,
fixing some header fields to allow for Eudora's idiosyncracies, as
well as those of Kmail and Pine.
You can also run the script directly on an individual mailbox or put
it in your own script that traverses the Eudora mail folder tree.
</p>
</li>
<li><p><kbd>EudoraTOC.py</kbd> - Eudora toc file parser</p>
<p>
Makes an educated guess as to the format of the proprietary Eudora
'<kbd>.toc</kbd>' files, prints out useful info as a text file.
This format is known to vary substantially between versions
of Eudora, and drastically between the Mac and Windows versions, so
it is likely not to work for untested Eudora versions.
</p>
</li>
<li><p><kbd>Header.py</kbd> - Eudora Header parser</p>
<p>
Handles parsing and cleanup / conversion of headers from Eudora MBX files.
</p>
</li>
<li><p><kbd>EudoraLog.py</kbd> - Eudora2Unix Logging module</p>
<p>
Handles notice / warn / error logging for the Eudora2Unix scripts.
</p>
</li>
<li><p><kbd>EudoraHTMLParser.py</kbd> - HTML Parsing Module</p>
<p>
An HTML parser instance used to determine content identifiers
(cid: URLs) in HTML messages to support MIME attachment of
embedded images in converted emails.
</p>
</li>
</ul>
<h2>Installation, configuration and usage</h2>
<ul>
<li>
<p>
Put the scripts, in a directory in your <kbd>$PATH</kbd>.
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
Make the scripts executable:
</p>
<p>
<kbd>chmod a+x /path/to/Eudora*.py</kbd>
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
Copy your Eudora directory to your Linux home directory, e.g.:
</p>
<p>
(If you are using a Mac version that does not use '<kbd>.toc</kbd>'
files, you will first have to get a converter from the Eudora site, and
use it to convert your mailboxes.)
</p>
<p>
Make sure to transfer the files as binary.
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
You may wish to copy your attachments too. By default, this folder
is in the Eudora mail folder, and named '<kbd>Attachments Folder</kbd>',
'<kbd>attach</kbd>', or '<kbd>Attach</kbd>', depending on your Eudora
version.
</p>
<p>
To identify the attachments folder to Eudora2Unix, use the option
</p>
<p>
<kbd>-a attachments_folder
</kbd>
</p>
<p>If you have multiple attachments folders that you want to
use, you can include them with the <kbd>-a</kbd> option by
separating them with colons.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
Convert the entire <kbd>~/eudora_folder</kbd> directory to unix
<kbd>~/Mail.e2u</kbd>, suitable for KMail, with:
</p>
<p>
<kbd>Eudora2Unix.py -t kmail eudora_folder
</kbd>
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
Alternatively, try it out on a single mailbox file first:
</p>
<p>
<kbd> mkdir ~/tmp; cd ~/tmp <br />
cp -pv ~/eudora_folder/in.mbx in.mbx <br />
Eudora2Mbox.py in.mbx
</kbd>
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
Follow the instructions given by <kbd>Eudora2Unix.py </kbd> and so,
remove the Eudora2Unix auxiliary files (<kbd>*.E2U_*</kbd>), and
the various Windows auxiliary files!
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
Once you are satisfied with the results,
either rename the converted directory to be your mail client directory,
or move parts of it over to an existing mail client directory (see
the following tip.)
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
Tip on merging old Kmail <kbd>$HOME/Mail</kbd> mailboxes.
</p>
<p>
If you have a previous <kbd>~/Mail</kbd> directory (with mbox files),
you can rename this directory (e.g. to <kbd>Mail.old</kbd>), then run
<kbd>Eudora2Unix.py</kbd> and finally simply copy
<kbd>~/Mail.old/somembx</kbd> to <kbd>~/Mail/somembx.prev</kbd>.
</p>
<p>
In KMail move the mail from the <kbd>somembx.prev</kbd> folder
(which will pop up in KMail's left folder pane) to an appropiate
location or rename the folder, etc.
</p>
</li>
<li>
Start up your mail client (pine or Kmail) and see your converted mail!
</li>
</ul>
<h2>Links</h2>
<p>
Eudora2Unix was originally written by Eric Maryniak.
<a href="http://pobox.com/%7Ee.maryniak/index.html"><img src="home.png" alt=" " width="61" height="62"/>
There's no page like Eric's home page</a>.
</p>
<p>
Eudora2Unix is now maintained by Steve White:
(<a href="mailto:Stevan White <[email protected]>">[email protected]</a>).
</p>
<hr />
<p>
Page last modified on
2010-12-17
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