Barry
Tue Jun 01 06:30:04 CDT 2004
On 28/5/04 6:52 am, in article BCDC21BA.66149%berkowit@spoof_silcom.com,
"Paul Berkowitz" <berkowit@spoof_silcom.com> wrote:
> On 5/27/04 9:45 PM, in article
> 8c51aca9.0405272045.5b2f2f47@posting.google.com, "gunther"
> <guntherlie@mac.com> wrote:
>
>> does anyone know if it's possible to import attachments from eudora.
>> i'm making the switch to entourage 2004 and would love to be able to
>> bring all my attachments in too. under a normal import, it doesn't
>> work.
>
> That's because Eudora itself strips the attachments and sticks them in an
> Attachments folder. There's nothing Entourage can do about that - they're
> not in the encoded messages. It's the same thing if you bring over Eudora
> mailbox files, change the extension to .mbox, and drag them into Entourage.
> No attachments. That's because they're not in Eudora's mailbox files. You'd
> have to go to a Eudora mailing list and find out if some AppleScript (there
> are some _really_ advanced Eudora scripters) has scripted some sort of MBOX
> export encoding attachments back in. I don't know that that's possible,
> however.
I used to do a lot of Eudora scripting, and while it was theoretically
possible to find linked attachments from wherever they were moved to (and
Eudora's filters allowed you to specify different destinations for the
attachments of filtered mail), I would dread to try and re-engineer an RFC
compliant mail message with an encoded attachment included. It would be a
mammoth task, and one that would be highly susceptible to breaking if the
chain of links was disturbed in any way.
--
Barry Wainwright
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