Line endings for Mac mailboxes on OS X?

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John H Meyers - 04 Feb 2008 18:31 GMT

Have I understood old postings correctly,
that even for OS X one needs "Classic" Mac line endings (CR)
in mailbox files, rather than Unix line endings (LF)?

For anyone converting in either direction between Windows and Mac,
the free utility "EditPad Lite" (which runs on the Windows side)
is simple and excellent for making the conversion,
but of course one needs to know, when going from Windows to Mac OS X,
which conversion to make!

FYI re EditPad Lite:

Description:
http://www.editpadpro.com/editpadlite.html

Download:
http://download.jgsoft.com/editpad/SetupEditPadLite.exe

To use this, once installed, for converting a file,
you just open the file with EditPad (easiest by just
dragging the file to an already opened EditPad window),
then in EditPad, click "Convert" > "To Unix (LF only)"
"To Macintosh (CR only)" or "To Windows (CR LF)"
then save the file, and it's been converted.

Thanks for any final word on what works for OS X.

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Tim Streater - 04 Feb 2008 19:10 GMT

> Have I understood old postings correctly,
> that even for OS X one needs "Classic" Mac line endings (CR)
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>
> Thanks for any final word on what works for OS X.

TextWrangler.

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Peter Ceresole - 04 Feb 2008 20:09 GMT

> TextWrangler.

But isn't that terribly expensive?

Of course, for those that already have it, BBEdit does the job too.

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Tim Streater - 04 Feb 2008 20:24 GMT

> > TextWrangler.
>
> But isn't that terribly expensive?

Yerrs, fahsands and fahsands. But to you, my boy, and I'm really doin'
myself 'ere, seven and a tanner and no questions arsed.

> Of course, for those that already have it, BBEdit does the job too.

Quite so.

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Anders Eklöf - 04 Feb 2008 20:12 GMT

> TextWrangler.

Or its predecessor BBEdit Lite.

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John H Meyers - 04 Feb 2008 22:30 GMT

On Mon, 04 Feb 2008 13:10:18 -0600:

> TextWrangler.

Apparently I didn't quite express what I was looking for,
which is not the name of a program to use on the Mac
(since we already have one to use on the Windows side anyway),
but rather the information as to _which_type_ of line endings
do or do not work for Eudora under OS X,
and any other details that have to be attended to,
to make conversion from Windows mailboxes work.

Thus far I have found the thread below,
which seems to suggest leaving line endings
as for "Classic" Mac (CR only), but please
do let me know if "Unix" (LF only) also works or not,
for running Eudora 6.2.4 under OS X.

At present, each mailbox is being taken to be one single,
gigantic message, rather than being a collection of many individual messages,
and that's what lead me to suspect that this issue might be involved.

There also seemed to be details posted
about needing to change or specify the Mac file type,
and I was wondering whether that was also a necessary extra step,
thanks.

The thread I had found was:

"Win98 Eudora5.2 to MacOSX Eudora6.2 conversion problem" [Dec 2004]
(written by regular forum "stars" Fred Athearn, Peter Ceresole,
Sander Tekelenburg, Kathy Morgan, and Anders Eklöf)
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.mail.eudora.mac/browse_thread/thread/67eb419
e4504e74c

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Kathy Morgan - 08 Feb 2008 07:19 GMT

> Apparently I didn't quite express what I was looking for,
> which is not the name of a program to use on the Mac
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> do let me know if "Unix" (LF only) also works or not,
> for running Eudora 6.2.4 under OS X.

I don't know if the Unix line endings will work, but the "Classic" Mac
endings definitely will. Since they do, I suspect the Unix line endings
won't.

> At present, each mailbox is being taken to be one single,
> gigantic message, rather than being a collection of many individual messages,
[quoted text clipped - 4 lines]
> and I was wondering whether that was also a necessary extra step,
> thanks.

I'm not sure, but I think not. If the file is not automatically
recognized by Eudora, you can set Eudora as the application to use for
opening the file. (Select the file in the Finder and choose "Open
with..." under File, or "Get info" under File and set Eudora as the
application.) You do need to have the file (or an alias pointing to it)
where Eudora expects to find it, which would be under ~/Documents/Eudora
Folder/Mail folder.

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Line endings for Mac mailboxes on OS X?