Problem importing Eudora (Windoze) mailboxes into Evolution.

Niccity · 07-20-2009, 10:13 AM

Hi all. I have recently installed Ubuntu 9.04 JJ on several ex-windoze/dual boot machines for my family. All has gone well apart from one niggle with email. We have used Eudora for years and been quite happy with it. Having looked at the Linux offerings I found the Evolution packaged with Ubuntu offered the most similar feature set (correct me if I'm wrong - I have not looked at a huge selection).

All is well except for one or two little problems importing Eudora mailboxes -

1) all 'sent' mails seem to lose the date/time information - I have tried the import feature on Evolution and also manually moving the mailboxes. In both cases the messages are fine but no date information is carried over. Received mails are fine in both cases.

This makes proper archiving very difficult.

2) mails lose the 'replied/reply' flags.

Now the second is no big deal and may be a 'feature' of Eudora not implementing the Berkeley format correctly (or the feature doesn't exist anyway).

The first however is a bit of a devil - if it is incorrect format by Eudora then shame on them - anyone with any ideas please chuck them in.

Or if I'm being stupid tell me!

Sorry for the long post - trying to be as descriptive as possible.
Nicky

stress_junkie · 07-20-2009, 01:02 PM

Some people may like Evolution. My experience is that it is buggy and unreliable. I believe that any other choice would have been better.

You might want to try something that works natively on Linux and has a native Windows version. Something like Mozilla's Thunderbird would allow you to experiment importing your Eudora email while running Windows. Then when you had gotten the results that you like you could presumably copy the Thunderbird email file(s) directly to Linux.

Niccity · 07-21-2009, 11:32 AM

Thanks stress junkie.

I have used T-bird in windoze but when I imported Eudora mailboxes that made a pigs ear of it because it handles users mail folders and 'local folders' unlike Evolution and Eudora. Also I am not sure how transportable T-bird in Win is to T-bird in Linux but I will give it another go.

I take on board your comments. Thank you
Nicky