Eudora Pro PC transfer to Mac OS X

[Joseph Spiros]

How could I go about doing that? I currently use a PC, but plan on getting a Mac soon, but don't want to lose all my email.

I have Eudora Pro for PC and I wanna move it to Mac... How to do this?

Also, Would It be possible to move the PC Eudora files to Mac OS X Mail? or Entourage?

 

[dricci]

In Mail for OS X, under File there's an "Import" option. One of the options is "Eudora." You may be able to copy your Eudora mail data files to your OS X hard drive, or connect to the windoze machine via samba and then specify how to import it. I don't know if it'd work due to the Windows version probably being different, but worth a shot I guess.

 

[paulsomm]

a simple, one line command to convert line breaks is:

tr '\n' '\r' < /path/to/winfile > /path/to/macfile

I usually create two scripts in my /bin folder called "demac" and "tomac". They actually create a backup copy just in case, and then make the new file the same name as the old. They are:

demac (to convert from mac to windows):

#!/bin/sh
tr '\r' '\n' < $1 > temp
mv $1 $1.bak
mv temp $1



tomac (to convert from windows to mac):

#!/bin/sh
tr '\n' '\r' < $1 > temp
mv $1 $1.bak
mv temp $1


I then type "demac filename" or "tomac filename" and the original is stored as "filename.bak" just in case

This is a big deal for me b/c some of the folks I work with edit html on windows, and I'm on OSX (unix) and so I have to constantly change the files.