Mac Forum / Applications / Eudora / March 2006

After 20+ years with Wintel machines, I bought my first iMac Intel.
Now I'm trying to transfer all my Eudora Mailboxes from the clunky ol'
Dell PC to my bright, shiny iMac.  When I copied all the mbx files and
folders to a disk, there was over 350 MB and I'd really like to keep
those messages.

Eudora help advised to run the Mailbox files through a free utility
from their site named CRLF, but I get an error message  "You cannot
open the application CRLF 1.2 because it is not supported on this
system."

My suspicion is that the CRLF -- which the Readme states was first
published in 1994 -- is not suitable for OS X 10.4.  The E-mail address
in the Readme for the author bounces, and a google search for the
author's name shows up nothing later than 1994.

An alternative suggested by Eudora help was BBEdit from
www.barebones.com, but Bare Bones wants $200 for the program -- which I
might use once.

The last suggestion was to  ftp all the files in text mode, and frankly
I don't know how to do that.  The last time I tried  FTP-ing something,
it was an utter failure.

I've also searched this NG, but the best I can see is I'm supposed to
use CRLF -- and nothing else after about 2002 or thereabouts.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

Dave