Re: Migrating from Eudora

Hi Gaëtan,

On Fri, 13 Dec 2002 00:33:55 +0100 "Gaëtan Frenoy" <[email protected]> wrote:

> However, as I am currenlty using Eudora, I was wondering how I could
> import my old mails?  I tried "Import mbox..." option which first looks to
> work but the attachments are not imported :(

I had a similar problem with Calypso and wrote a perl script that converts
such an mbox file to MH, includes those separated attachments and regenerates
the old folder structure.
I don't use Eudora, but I can imagine (hope) that it also leaves some
information in the headers, where it put the attachments, so this script
should be usable with minor ajustments.

You will need the conversion script, Perl and the "MIME-tools" and "libwww-perl"
packages. Below are some instructions for ActiveState Perl, but Cygwin or Linux
versions should also work (except they don't offer ppm):

Using ActiveState Perl
- download and install Perl from http://activestate.com
- have perl\bin in your path
- download and install "MIME-tools" and "libwww-perl" using ppm:
    D:\Perl\bin>ppm
    PPM interactive shell (2.1.2) - type 'help' for available commands.
    PPM> install MIME-tools
    Install package 'MIME-tools?' (y/N): y
    Installing package 'MIME-tools'...
    Installing D:\Perl\html\site\lib\Mail\Address.html
    Installing D:\Perl\html\site\lib\Mail\Cap.html
    Installing D:\Perl\html\site\lib\Mail\Field.html
    Installing D:\Perl\html\site\lib\Mail\Filter.html
    ... (and so on)
- download "calypso-convert.pl"
  - set the location and name of the mbox at the top of the script, e.g. to convert
    an mbox file "export.mbox" in the subfolder "data", set "mboxdir" to "data" and
    "mboxfile" to "export.mbox". You also have to set the name of the directory where
    to put the results.
    
    our $mboxdir    = ''            || showhelp();  # enter path to exported mbox
    our $mboxfile   = ''            || showhelp();  # enter name of exported mbox
    our $outdir     = ''            || showhelp();  # enter destination path

  - You will need to ajdust the headers to those used by Eudora.
    The folders will be created according to the "$hdr_Folder" header,
    "$hdr_HTML" and "$hdr_Attach" are used to detect the external attachments.
    The "$hdr_Account" is only used for debugging and can be ignored.
    The "$calypso_hdr" header is used to detect the beginning of a Mail in the
    mbox file (should always be "From ???@???" for mbox).

    my $calypso_hdr = 'From \?\?\?@\?\?\? ';  #Mon Apr 17 00:37:38 2000
    my $hdr_Folder  = 'X-CalypsoFolder:';
    my $hdr_HTML    = 'X-CalypsoHtmlBody:';
    my $hdr_Account = 'X-CalypsoAccount:';
    my $hdr_Attach  = 'X-Attachment:';

[1] calypso-convert.pl (from claws-CVS) :
    http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/sylpheed-claws/sylpheed-claws/tools/calypso_convert.pl?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/plain
[2] ActiveState Perl
    http://downloads.activestate.com/ActivePerl/Windows/5.6/ActivePerl-5.6.1.633-MSWin32-x86.msi

HTH,
-- 
Thorsten Maerz          <[email protected]>
Sylpheed-claws/Win32:   http://claws-w32.sf.net


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