University of Turku

Eudoran ylläpito

Sähköpostiohjelma Eudoraa käytetään jonkin verran Turun Yliopistolla. Sinänsä se on ongelmaton ohjalma, mutta vaatii jonkin verran ylläpitoa, kuten kaikki muukin.
Siirryttäessä uudelle koneelle pitää Eudorasta ottaa talteen vähintään postikansiot, osoitekirja ja Eudoran asetustiedot. Näitä samoja ohjeita voi käyttää myös haluttaessa asebtaa Eudora kokonaan uudestaan. Tällöin alla mainitut ohjeet voi kopioida johonkin tilapäiseen hakemistoon.

Postikansiot Nämä löytyvät yleensä hakemistosta C:\Program Foiles\Eudora. Tiedostoja on kahta tyyppiä: toinen sisältää varsinaisen tekstiosan (*.MBX) ja toinen tekstiosan indeksoinnin (*.TOC). Kutakin sähköpostikansiota varten on oma tiedostoparinsa. MAC:ssä tekstitiedostoilla ei ol loppupäätettä, vaan ne on nimetty 'IN', 'OUT' jne. Indeksitiedostojen pääte on 'TOC'. Eudoran kolme oletuskansiota ovat nimeltään IN.MBX (IN.TOC), OUT.MBX (OUT.TOC) sekä TRASH.MBX (TRASH.TOC). Näiden lisäksi ovat käyttäjän itse tekemät kansiot.

Osoitekirja 'NickNames' on PC:ssä tiedosto nimeltään 'nndbase.txt'. Mac:ssa tiedosto löytyy nimellä 'Eudora Nicknames'.

Asetustiedosto on PC:ssä nimeltään 'EUDORA.INI' ja MAC:ssa vastaavasti 'Eudora settings'

Muu materiaali pitää sisällään Attachmentit eli liitetiedostot. Niitähän sinun koneessasi ei kuitenkaan ole, koska ole aina tunnollisesti siirtänyt omille paikoilleen saapuneet liitteet. Roskat roskakoriin ja muun järkevästi nimettyihin hakemistoihinsa. (Yksi tapa)

Siirto Eudorasta Mozillaan

Oheinen tekstipätkä kopioitu osoitteesta http://www.cs.uu.nl/technical/services/email/eudora2moz/eudora2moz.html Kiitokset kirjoittajille.
* Select Import from the Tools menu
* Select Messages, click Next
* Select Eudora, click Next
* It should now import your Eudora messages (it automatically finds your Eudora mail directory). Eudora mail folders will be placed in a folder below Local Folders. This can take a while, depending on the amount of mail to be imported, of course
Import Eudora address book (if any)
* Select Import from the Tools menu
* Select Address books, click Next
* Select Eudora, click Next
* Mozilla automagically imports your Eudora address book

Siirto PC:ltä MAC:lle tai päinvastoin.

MAC:n ja PC:n tiedostojen suurin ero on rivin loppumerkistä (New Line). Tämän kiertämiseksi tekstitiedostot voi lukea lähdekoneessa Wordilla ja tallettaa muodossa, jonka molemmat koneet ymmärtävät. Tämä muunnettu tiedosto kopioidaan toiseen koneeseen ja tallettaa sitten teksti-muodossa
Tätä temppua voi käyttää myös osoitetiedostoon.

Varmuuskopiointi

Eudoran varmuuskopion tekoon on tarjolla kaupallinen ohjelma EZ Eudora Backup. Mikäli haluaa pitää rahoistaan kiinni, operaation voi suorittaa myös käsin. Alla oleva ohje on vielä raakile, koska en itse käytä Eudoraa:

Windows 2000

Talleta seuraavat tiedostot:
C:\ Program Files\Eudora\Nickname
C:\ Program Files\Eudora\NNDBASE.TXT
C:\ Program Files\Eudora\*.INI
C:\ Program Files\Eudora\*.MBX
C:\ Program Files\Eudora\*.TOC

Windows XP

Talleta seuraavat tiedostot:
C:\Program Files\Eudora\NNDBASE.TXT
C:\Program Files\Eudora\*.INI
C:\Program Files\Eudora\*.MBX
C:\Program Files\Eudora\*.TOC

Talleta seuraavat hakemistot:
C:\Program Files\Eudora\Filters
C:\Program Files\Eudora\Nicknames
C:\Program Files\Eudora\Sigs
C:\Program Files\Eudora\Stationery

Macintosh OS 9.X

Talleta seuraavat tiedostot:
System Folder\Eudora Folder\Nicknames Folder
System Folder\Eudora Folder\Eudora Settings
System Folder\Eudora Folder\Eudora Nicknames
System Folder\Eudora Folder\In
System Folder\Eudora Folder\Out
System Folder\Eudora Folder\All other mailboxes and folders (including TOC files)

Macintosh OS X

Talleta seuraavat tiedostot:
Documents\Eudora Folder\Eudora Filters
Documents\Eudora Folder\Eudora Nicknames
Documents\Eudora Folder\Eudora Settings
Documents\Eudora Folder\History List
Documents\Eudora Folder\Mail Folder
Documents\Eudora Folder\Nicknames Folder
Documents\Eudora Folder\Signature Folder
Documents\Eudora Folder\Stationery Nicknames

I found a piece of text from my old HD. I'll clue it here

Moving Eudora to a new machine

When you get a new PC or Mac you will probably want to move your Eudora messages and addressbook from your old machine to the new one.

You should not simply transfer the Eudora folder from one machine to another. The software must be properly installed on the new computer. Having installed the Eudora software on your new computer you can simply copy your mailbox files from your old machine to the new Eudora folder. That is basically all you have to do, but there are some complications, which are covered in this note.

This note does not describe the installation of Eudora. It assumes that you have a NEW computer with a newly installed copy of Eudora, and an OLD computer with your old copy of Eudora with your old mailboxes and nicknames.

Eudora mailboxes

You probably realise that Eudora stores your messages in files called "mailboxes". There are three standard mailboxes: In, Out and Trash. We'll assume that you don't want to transfer your Trash box. In addition to these standard mailboxes, you should have a number of your own mailboxes

The mailboxes are stored in the Eudora folder. On the PC this may be anywhere on the hard disk: you may have a folder called "Eudora" just within the C drive folder; or it may be hidden withing the "Program Files" folder. On the Mac, the Eudora folder is always inside the System folder.

On the PC the mailbox files have a suffix ".MBX". So the In mailbox file is called "IN.MBX" and the Out mailbox file is "OUT.MBX". If you have a mailbox called "Department" the file for that will be called "DEPARTMENT.MBX". In addition to the .MBX files there are table-of-contents files called "IN.TOC", "OUT.TOC" and so on for each of the .MBX files.

On the Mac the mailbox files themselves have no suffix and are called simply "IN", "OUT" and so on. The table-of-contents files have the .TOC suffix as on the PC.

Transferring mailboxes to another machine of the same sort -- that is Mac to Mac or PC to PC

These instructions assume either that none of your mailbox files is too large to fit on a floppy disk or that you are able to perform the transfer from one machine to another using some other medium, such as a ZIP disk, or a network connection.

If you have allowed your mailboxes to become that large you should consider deleting some of your messages on your old machine. If you do delete messages, remember to click the button in the bottom left corner of the mailbox window in order to compact the mailbox to regain space. This button is marked by figures like figures indicating the number of messages in the mailbox, the total amount of space that it occupies, and the amount of empty space that could be regained by compacting.

The instructions also assume that you know how to copy and rename files on your Mac or PC.

* Copy the mailbox files and the table-of-contents files onto a floppy disk or ZIP disk, or transfer them across the network into a temporary folder on the new machine
* Rename the In.MBX and In.TOC files to be oldIn.MBX and oldIn.TOC
* If you are transferring the Out mailbox as well, rename the files Out.MBX and Out.TOC to be oldOut.MBX and oldOut.TOC
You don't need to worry about upper/lowercase. On the Mac, the mailbox files do not have the ".MBX" suffix.
* If you have other mailboxes to transfer you do not need to rename them unless you have already created mailboxes with the same names on the new machine
* Copy the files from the floppy/ZIP disk or the temporary folder into the Eudora folder on the new machine

Eudora configuration file

The Eudora configuration is stored in a file called "EUDORA.INI" (on the Mac it is called "Eudora settings"). This file contains settings such as:

* the names of the incoming and outgoing mail hosts
* the user's account name, email address and "Real name"
* the user's password (encrypted) (if the "save password" option has been set)
* the many settings that control the way the program works, such as whether the trash is emptied on quitting
* the co-ordinates of the different windows
* the location of the default attachments folder

It is usually possible to copy the configuration file from the old machine to the new one, and so preserve an identical environment. However this sometimes causes problems, and it is probably best to configure the program afresh on the new machine.

If you do decide to copy the old configuration to the new machine, and if it does cause problems, you should quit Eudora and rename the configuration file (call it EUDORA.OLD or something like that). You could delete it, but it is probably safer to rename it, incase it is necessary to look at it for any reason. Then start up Eudora again, and it will create an empty configuration file, and you can then configure the program from scratch.

Addressbooks (nicknames)

The addressbook file file on the PC is called "nndbase.txt". On the Mac it is called "Eudora Nicknames". It is a simple matter just to transfer these files by floppy disk from the Eudora folder on the old machine to the Eudora folder on the new machine. On the PC there is a table-of-contents file (nndbase.toc) but there is no need to transfer this, as Eudora will re-create it.

If you already have an addressbook on the new machine you can avoid overwriting it in one of two ways:

* If your new machine has version 4 of Eudora (or a higher version) then it is possible to have multiple nickname files. You will have a "Nicknames" folder inside your Eudora folder and you can copy your old nickname file into this folder, and Eudora should pick it up. The nndbase.txt file in the Eudora folder will be treated as the main "Eudora Nicknames" file; any additional .txt file inside the Nicknames folder will be listed in the Addrewssbook window as an additional set of nicknames. (This works with Eudora 4.3 for Windows, but I have not tried it on a Macintosh.)

* Another way of securing both sets of nicknames involves using a text editor to combine the old and new addressbooks into a single file. Use a text editor (Notepad on the PC or Simpletext on the Mac) to concatenate the files: o open both the nickname files (one in your floppy disk, the other in the Eudora folder). This will involve having two Notepad/Simpletext windows open.
o copy and paste the contents of one file onto the end of the other.
o save the combined file and store it in your Eudora folder.

Cross-platform transfers

If you are transferring from Mac ot PC or PC to Mac, using the Mac's ability to read PC disks, there is a complication due to the different ways in which new lines are handled on the two types of computer. You can get round this by saving the mailbox files as Word documents on the old machine, and converting them back to text only files on the new machine.

To do this you need to make sure that Word on your new machine can read the Word documents produced on your old machine. There is usually no problem about this, since the new machine is likely to have a more recent version of Word. But if you are moving from an Office95 or Office97 setup to a Macintosh using Word v5.1, you will need a converter for the Mac.

This works for the addressbook file as well.

Another way of ensuring that the newline characters are converted correctly is to transfer the mailbox files to your Sun account and then down onto the new machine, using an FTP program (such as ws_ftp on a PC or Fetch on a Mac). In both transfers ensure that you select the Text transfer (or ASCII transfer) option.
What if you are transferring from one version of Eudora to another?
Providing you are remaining on the same platform, there should be no problem incorporating mailboxes from an earlier version of Eudora. But remember to rename the In and Out mailboxes to, say, OldIn and OldOut.

Julian Crowe
July 2000

PTMUSTA at UTU.FI		Under work 04.10.04