The end of Eudora?

[barondave]

All of a sudden, at around midnight last night, Eudora stopped working. Worse, it seems to be eating e-mail. It downloads e-mail, but then I get a series of nine alert messages (!) saying Out of Memory and Don't Worry, Your E-Mail will appear Shortly but nothing comes up.

I'm reading my e-mail online, but I'd like to keep some of the messages, etc. Any suggestions?

Eudora won't let me compact the In Box... does the version 8 Beta work on Macs? Is there another program that will let me keep my years-n-years of e-mails?

Comments

[calimac.livejournal.com]

I used to use Eudora 4.1 (I stopped there, because 4.2 had too many features I didn't like). It crashed on occasion, usually as the result of indigestible spam, so I took to filtering my messages on webmail and eventually just migrated there and gave up on Eudora; I now use Another Program for storing old messages.

I could usually get the program to reboot by going into a subdirectory called "spool" and deleting any non-text files there. (The text files usually contained any lost messages that arrived when the disabling spam did.)

On a couple of occasions I had to reload the software. What you need to know there, assuming your version works like 4.1, is that the actual flat text of the messages is kept in files labeled *.mbx, and the pointers in files labeled *.toc. Copy and save these elsewhere before doing anything.

[zifferent.livejournal.com]

If they're *.mbx files, Thunderbird can handle them, or you could setup an IMAP server to serve them up to whatever program floats your boat. I'm currently using DoveCOT(IMAP), SquirellMail(MUA), and PostFix(MTA); running my own server on my own domain and my email is now accessible anywhere I can find an Internet terminal. Quite useful that.