Mac Forum / Applications / Eudora / June 2004

I typically get over 4,000 emails daily, mostly SPAM, of course, but a
lot that I need to respond to.  I do ecommerce, and receive many mails
from my customers.

While on vacation recently, I wasn't able to check mail as often as
usual, and on two occasions the mail file on my virtual server grew to
about 190 MB.  Wben I tried to download, I got a message like:

"Unable to copy spool folder, disc quota exceeded."

I FTPd (using Transmit) the big files, and have saved them on my
Powerbook, but I can't get them to open with Eudora.

I can open the files with Word or Netscape, and they look OK, but
neither of those options will allow me to use my Eudora filters.

I seem to recall being able to open such local files with a previous
version of Eudora, but the 6.1 I'm running won't recognize them.

Is there any way I can recover these messages in a usable (filterable)
format?

I've already tried doing "get info" on the file and selecting "Eudora"
with the "Open with" pulldown.  When I double-click the file, or drop it
on the Eudora icon in the dock, it just opens up a blank Eudora message
with the file as an attachment to send.

I'm running the latest (10.4) Panther OS.

Thanks for any help.

I had tried Eudora support but they were useless.

Sheldon Brown
Newtonville, Massachusetts

    Harris Cyclery, West Newton, Massachusetts
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