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Why Don't My Attachments Go to Windows Users?

sjuhawk31 — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 13:06:53 -0800

Why are my image attachments (from Mail.app) suddenly not going through to Windows (specifically Eudora) users? I have "Always Send Windows Friendly Attachments" checked. For a while (I thought), when I sent an image file (doesn't matter if it was .eps, .png or .jpg) to someone using Windows, they got it fine. Now it's not working, and I'm pretty certain I didn't do anything to Mail to change the preferences. Help!

PC>Mac email transition and reorganizing years of emails.

bagelche — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 02:58:41 -0800

Compounded question with PC->Mac transition involving multiple Eudora copies and which mail program under Leopard should I be using anyway? The basic questions: 1) which mail program should I be using under Leopard? Mail, Thunderbird, other? 2) Can I (easily) port my PC Eudora mail over to that program? 3) I need to clean/sort out my past 8 years of emails. Where in the process do I do that? and how? AKA, I can't figure out how it sort it out. I've used Eudora for 7+ years and porting mail across several computers, from win98 to XP. I just bought a macbook pro and want to shift my life over to the macinverse. For the most part I can handle it. I am stumped on how to deal with email.

The basic questions:
1) which mail program should I be using under Leopard? Mail, Thunderbird, other?
2) Can I (easily) port my PC Eudora mail over to that program?
3) I need to clean/sort out my past 8 years of emails. Where in the process do I do that? and how?

Some background:
I sort my mail (of which I get several hundred emails a day) into many folder, based on topic, listserv, people, etc. and save it for historical reference (which I do frequently). Several years ago I got a laptop which ended up with several months of unique Eudora messages, but which otherwise is redundant in terms of emails, though to complicate things the filtering rules are not the same on desktop and laptop. The laptop downloads mail via IMAP, while the desktop is the POP3 email holder of record, save for those couple of months where I foolishly POP3ed on the laptop.

I just purchased a mac and will be using Leopard. I like the idea of using the Mail app for overall OS integration, but don't know if it can handle the load of email, 10 or so personalities with varying POP3 and IMAPs, and decent message sorting.

Which program should I use on the Mac and what is the process for porting email to the program of choice?

Now, for the biggie. This seems like a good time as any to recombine and resort my email archive. depending on the porting process, I need to decide if I should port one ginormous inbox containing 10s if not 100s of thousands of emails and do the new folders/filter rules on the mac or if I should do the sorting/refiltering on the PC and port over the folders and maybe the filter rules.

Historically Eudora hasn't had a way to sort through duplicates, so If I combine folders, I'll have tons of duplicates with no good way to get rid of them. This has stymied me in doing it in Eudora. I tried transferring my inbox to Thunderbird on the PC a year ago and that took many hours and I gave up and haven't tried since.

Where do I go from here?

Bonus question: I like having my email backed up somewhere besides the server (both for server space issues and for the use of the webmail interface, which is a pain with too many emails.). Should I POP3 to the macbook pro and trust in a nightly Time Machine backup or still archive my pop3 email archive either on the server or a PC desktop in Eudora?

Any help in sorting this out is greatly appreciated.

How to get MBOX mailboxes into Eudora (including attachments)?

ManInSuit — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 15:24:00 -0800

How to get MBOX mailboxes into Eudora (including attachments)? Hi. I have a bunch of MBOX-format mailboxes I've downloaded off my mail host using Imapsize.

I want to be able to access these offline using a fresh installation of Eudora.

When I bring the MBOX files into the Eudora folder, they seem to work okay, as long as the messages have no attachments.

When there are attachments, though, Eudora does not seem happy - the attached files don't show up, and the message bodies include a huge encoded mess.

Does anyone know a way to import mbox-format mailboxes into Eudora that avoids this problem? (Free solutions are best, of course...)

Bulk Exporting E-Mail from Eudora Pro to TXT

stst399 — Wed, 09 May 2007 13:53:35 -0800

How would I batch export Eudora Pro e-mails with customized filenames? After reading "Bit Literacy" recently (highly recommended, by the way), I deleted 8,000 e-mails from my Inbox. Now, though, I need to export to text files the remaining 1,000 messages that I need to keep.

I am using Eudora Pro 7.1 (although I could easily revert back to Eudora 5.1, if necessary) on Windows XP. I found this program which does the exporting quite nicely, but, unfortunately, it does not allow for detailed file names.

Specifically, I need to be able to export each e-mail to individual text files with file names along the lines of....

"YYYY MM DD, Time, Author, Subject.txt"
or "2007 05 08, 19-27 PST, Bob Smith, Exporting E-Mail.txt"

The dates and times put the folder of text files in chronological order, and the author and subject make it easier to find things.

What can I do to accomplish this?

Is there a program or plug-in that already exists?
Someone recommended a Python script, but that is not something with which I am familiar.
Is that something that, with instruction, I could do myself?
Or can I pay somebody to create the script or software that I need?

Thank you!

How to stop displaying gmail headers?

tommassit — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 14:19:30 -0800

In Eudora, how do you eliminate seeing headers from gmail? All of a sudden, I see a stringer of headers in Eudora at the beginning of messages sent to me from people with gmail accounts.

Previously, I'd set my x-header line so I'd only see the pertinent: from, to, subject, date.

Now this appears from gmail senders. I tried adding "X-DKIM" but it didn't work.

DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed;
d=gmail.com; s=beta;
h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date ... etc.

Help me filter emails in Eudora

tomble — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 15:39:48 -0800

Mail filtering in Eudora. I've been using Eudora at work for a while now, with a catch-all domain. My problem is that someone has been spamming with random names at my domain name, and we're losing valid emails in a torrent of bounces.

I can't just filter the bounces for fear of losing a legitimate one, so my question is this -

How do I set up filters in Eudora to allow email to any of four specific email addresses and to junk any others? I tried setting it as junking anything which *is not* a valid email address.

This required setting up four filters, and a filter which allows address 1 will junk address 2, 3 and 4. A filter allowing address 2 junks 1, 3 and 4 and so on.

I am sure this can be done, my knowledge is just lacking.

what the frig?

lisa g — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 14:30:08 -0800

Eudora won't let me curse in my emails. Well, it will let me curse, but it insists on putting any message with a curse word on a timed delay of 10 minutes before it'll send it. The naughty words are the usual George Carlin suspects, plus even friggin' -- which I discovered while trying to respond to an email entitled "Julianna's 34th Friggin' Birthday Party." Friggin'! (But frigging is okay.) (Also, asshole is bad, but assholes are okay.)

I am using the free, "light" version of Eudora 6.0.2 on a Mac running OS 10.3.2. I have looked at all the settings, and there isn't one called "NANNY CURSING FEATURE: ON OR OFF?" Am I missing it somewhere?

I don't mind so much that I get a dialogue box saying: "This message has language highly likely to cause offense; are you sure you want to send it anyway?" or even that Eudora flags it with three (three!) chili pepper icons to indicate that it's HOT. But the timed delay of 10 minutes really irritates me. Today I was sending emails about a friend in New Orleans who's still there -- she's being rescued, but FUCK.

I send my emails via the server that hosts my websites, Pair, but Eudora highlights the bad words before I even send them, so it appears to be an issue with Eudora rather than Pair. I suppose in a cursing emergency I could send an email and then reset my computer's clock to be 10 minutes ahead. But really.

I like the program other than this feature, and have all my emails in neat little folders, and would like to keep it. I guess I'll even pay for an upgrade if it'll let me be salty. Thank you very fucking much.

Tricks and tips for using IMAP mail?

esperluette — Tue, 12 Jul 2005 06:17:27 -0800

I've just switched to IMAP after (literally) fifteen years of pop mail. What are some tips, warnings, and best practices? I use Eudora for the Mac at home, Thunderbird on my PC when I travel, and pine when I'm out and about and want a tiny quick way to check email ... I'm having trouble getting my pine and Thunderbird clients to see the folders I set up with Eudora. And I'm not sure how best to structure my folders so that I don't waste space on stuff I don't need, or energy finding what I do!

Making Multipart text/html email

bkdelong — Thu, 07 Apr 2005 16:38:12 -0800

I can't figure out how to do a multipart email message in Eudora 6 or Outlook 11 - basically an email that is HTML, (retaining an image map and attributes - don't ask), and those viewing from Unix get a text-only version of the message.

Uh, didn't get the email?

availablelight — Mon, 14 Mar 2005 08:26:57 -0800

I have gmail. Is it possible for people using applications like Eudora, Outlook, etc. to know if/when I have "opened" and read emails they have sent to me?

Firefox opening twice in two identical windows

nylon — Thu, 16 Sep 2004 11:24:44 -0800

Eudora + Firefox + XP: every time I launch a link from within an email, Firefox opens it twice in two identical windows, and I also get a blank IE window. Needless to say, I just want one version of the link. In Firefox.
Spybot, Adaware, Hijackthis and AVG show nothing untoward on my system. Anyone else get this?

Help me retrieve my lost Eudora inbox

amberglow — Thu, 15 Jul 2004 19:58:07 -0800

Macfilter: I'm on 10.3.4, and just lost my entire eudora inbox (tons of msgs) and all my safari bookmarks and logins...any ideas? (i think it's because i didn't have enough diskspace free, but it's too weird, and annoying) or could it be a virus or something? nothing like this (so specifically targeted to Eudora and Safari) has ever happened to me before.

Web hosting Email Questions - Eudora

Pericles — Mon, 14 Jun 2004 13:29:40 -0800

My web host has been making some changes to the control panel and AWstats package. I've used Eudora for a year to send a receive pop3 emails via my site's mail server. Today, I can receive emails, but when I try to send them, Eudora tells me "550 Dynamic IP Address, see http://dnsbl.sorbs.net/cgi-bin/lookup?IP=82.36.30.80" - which goes here and baffles me. I've made no changes to my email account either on the site or in Eudora. They say they can't help. Can anyone?

Need App to Automatically Archive Several Hundred MB of Old Eudora Mail

madman — Thu, 04 Mar 2004 13:15:34 -0800

Eudora has been my email client since, oh, 1994. I now have several hundred megabytes of mail. It's disappointing that Eudora doesn't have an "archiving" feature like Outlook. Does anyone know of a utility that's up to the task? Doing with manually with over 35 folders is painful.