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Importing from Entourage

Importing from Entourage Eudora Tip #160/11-Dec-2002 Some of my clients have tried out Microsoft Entourage (part of the Office vX suite of applications) and have then decided to return to Eudora. Unfortunately Eudora’s Import function doesn’t see Entourage. You can still fairly easily import your mail though. Open Entourage and drag your mailboxes to the [...]

 

Importing from Entourage
Eudora Tip #160/11-Dec-2002

Some of my clients have tried out Microsoft Entourage (part of the Office vX suite of applications) and have then decided to return to Eudora. Unfortunately Eudora’s Import function doesn’t see Entourage. You can still fairly easily import your mail though.

Open Entourage and drag your mailboxes to the desktop. They will appear with names like: Sent Items.mbox.

Now use some software which can change the creator code and file type and change these to CSOm and TEXT. I used FileType 1.0.1 in my experiment (Mac OS X only).

[http://www.frederikseiffert.de/filetype/]

Rename the mailbox (eg to: Sent from Entourage) and add it into your folder of Eudora mailboxes.

You’ll probably find that the message status is incorrect (eg my sent messages weren’t marked as having been sent) but you can easily change that in Eudora.

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Miraz Jordan 13 August 2004 at 17:53:27

Ian wrote:

This will seem like a dumb question… I followed your instructions/advice under Eudora Tip #160 to import emails from Entourage to Eudora. I’ve got as far as renaming the file (having changed filetype and creator); then you say “add it to your folder of Eudora mailboxes.” – But how? I’m new to Eudora and I can only find ways to create new maillboxes, not to add – and drag and drop doesn’t work.

I replied:

Quit Eudora. Locate the Eudora Folder (probably in Documents) which contains the Mail Folder. Move the new mailboxes into the Mail Folder and restart Eudora.

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hiro 15 September 2004 at 19:53:48

This method to transfer mails from Entourage to Eudora will work on the attached fils of\r not?

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Miraz Jordan 15 September 2004 at 21:14:58

You will probably need to make sure you’ve saved any attachments to a folder of your choosing. The method of importing will probably lose track of the attachments.

I suggest you try it with one small mailbox and see how it works for you.

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