From: Crispen, Bob (Robert.Crispen@HSV.Boeing.com)
Date: Thu Apr 19 2001 - 13:31:27 CDT
Hi, Seth,
>I'm running hypermail v. 2b25, patchlevel 0. I've got a large
>archive in a Eudora (Win32) mbx file, approx 30MB.
You can tell pretty easily. The kind of mbox file that
hypermail uses is a plain text file. If you open up
your Eudora .mbx file in a plain text editor (e.g., vim,
WordPad) and you see anything that looks like garbage or
special characters, then you'll know that Eudora's .mbx
format isn't the same as the Unix mbox format that
hypermail uses.
If that's the case, then you'll need to see if you can get
Eudora to export your messages in a more standard format.
Btw, I took Eudora off my machine about a year ago when I
discovered that it was messing with the names of attached
files, and I bought another email program called The Bat!
which I like lots better. I'm not telling you this to get
you to switch email clients, though. I don't care what
email program you use.
The reason I'm telling you this is that The Bat! has a free
trial version <http://www.ritlabs.com/the_bat/>, and it
will import Eudora files and export Unix mbox-style files.
I have used those files exported by The Bat! with hypermail
at home, very successfully. So in case you can't get Eudora
to export its messages in the proper format, you can get
The Bat!, do the conversions, and uninstall it.
It may be that other mail programs will also do the
conversions. Like I said, I absolutely am not recommending
one email program over another, just letting you know one
way to do it in case Eudora comes up short in its ability
to export different file formats.
-- Bob Crispen bob.crispen@boeing.com