Importing from Eudora - Thunderbird
After importing mail from Eudora, you may find that many messages contain html tags, in angle brackets. In some cases it may be a simple "<x-flowed>" at the start of the message and a corresponding tag at the end, whereas in other cases a message might start out like this:
<x-html>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<META content="text/html; charset=iso-2022-jp" http-equiv=Content-Type>
<META content="MSHTML 5.00.2614.3500" name=GENERATOR>
<STYLE></STYLE>
</HEAD>
In order to get your Eudora mail into Thunderbird without all the html tags, you can try running the eudora2mbox script, which does pre-processing (converting) of your Eudora mailboxes rather than cleaning them up after they've been imported. (Also see this thread for further discussion of how to use the script. [1]) You could also try the script discussed in this thread, which is designed to be run after you have imported your Eudora mail into Thunderbird.
Alternative import using MacOS X
If you are running Mac OS X, you might want to consider using Eudora Mailbox Cleaner to import your Eudora messages (from either the Mac or the Windows version of Eudora) instead of using the import function built into Thunderbird. EMC should be able to
- preserve all formatting of rich text and HTML messages
- preserve message status flags
- re-attach attachments for received messages (unless they have been moved/deleted from the Eudora attchment folder)
The import is considerably faster than Thunderbird's and the application is free.
