How to import accounts and mail from Thunderbird/Netscape

[tardis3]

I've used Eudora as my mail program for a few years however recently thought I would try Mozilla Thunderbird. My reason for this was really the frustration of some of the issues with Eudora - mainly the "mailbox must be rebuilt" message that I constantly get. Reading this forum I have found the solution - at last.

However for the past month I have been using Mozilla Thunderbird and now want to get that data over to Eudora. Mozilla Thunderbird apprantly uses a standard format - which it says can be simply opened in Eudora. When I choose File => Import menu and then advanced import my choices are Microsoft Outlook, Netscape Messenger and Outlook Express.

Any suggestions on how I can achive this?

Thank you

Michael
tardis3

[risman]

Is there a way to import a Netscape 7.2 address book into Eudora 6.1?

[Ela Vesor]

Originally Posted by risman

Is there a way to import a Netscape 7.2 address book into Eudora 6.1?

File -> Import doesn't work?

[risman]

No. I save the NS address book as an LDIF file and then try to import it in Eudora and nothing happens.

[hwmcginnis]

What did you find that corrected the constant crashes that corrupt the mailbox TOC's?

[tardis3]

I read the other threads about the problem where they advised to delete a file - which worked for me. The file was in the eudora "spool" directory and it was an *.rcv file.

[tardis3]

PS. Why the switch from Thunderbird ( Which seems to have better features to Eudora?) - [email]garyray@spymac.com

I found that I missed the features that I use most. For example the ability to paste 'special' and paste an independant bitmap are missing in Thunderbird.

[Bill Wood]

Before moving to Thunderbird save your Eudora files - been there and done that. Mozilla's in version one. Customization is half compared to the things you can do in Eudora. TOC is fine with me win 2000, 6.2 paid.

Bill

[Soft-Net]

Hi All,

This will work for those who wish to convert from Thunderbird to Eudora.

Go to your Thunderbird Profile folder.

Get the Thunderbird mail files, the ones which have no filename extension (for instance "Inbox"), copy them to a new location, and then rename them to have an mbx extension: "Inbox" should be "Inbox.mbx".

NB Please ensure that the NEW mbx files do NOT match the names of existing Eudora mailbox files! Elsewise, you will cause complications for yourself.

Then let Eudora have the new .mbx-files. To do this....firstly, make sure Eudora is closed and NOT running.

Find Eudora's Data folder (on a default install on Windows it is at C:\Documents and Settings\myusername\Application Data\Qualcomm\Eudora), and copy the newly renamed ThunderBird mail [MBX] files to that folder.

Now, open Eudora, and access all the folders you just copied. This makes Eudora create the .toc index files

Et voila, the new mailboxes should appear in Eudora.


Hope this helps.

Mike

http://www.soft-net.co.uk/

[ahwiv]

I'm trying to import a set of addresses that are in LDIF format, and none are being importted, and no error message is being displayed.

I'm using Eudora 6.1

We have an application that generates LDIF format, and Eudora won't import it at all. Since the Eudora uses LDIF for Netscape Messager importing, I was afraid that Eudora's LDIF only handles a limited subset, so I tried to import my LDIF file into Thunderbird, which was successful, and export an LDIF file from Thunderbird's address book, and import that into Eudora. Still no success, and no error indications.

Is the specifics of what part of LDIF Eudora supports documented anywhere? Has anyone successfully imported LDIF formats from any other client than NS Messager? Any ideas on where to find error messages?

/ahw