Saturday, July 29, 2000, 4:10:00 AM, you wrote:
K> I imported a bunch of messages that I had sent using Eudora. I do not
K> send messages in HTML in Eudora. I send them plain text only and have
K> checked my Eudora settings to make sure that is so.
K> However, upon importing messages into TB! I find that they have HTML
K> formatting. The HTML formatting is not showing up like where someone
K> sends a message to me in HTML. That is, when I go to read one of the
K> messages I previously sent in Eudora, it all I see is the message with
K> all the HTML codes in it.
K> Again, this is strange since I didn't send the messages in HTML in the
K> first place. It also makes it impossible for me to use these messages
K> since they are unreadable. I need to be able to use them and read
K> them for various purposes. When I read the messages in Eudora they do
K> not appear to be in HTML nor did they appear so to those who received
K> them.
K> Any idea why this happened on importing?
K> Also, is there any way to strip the HTML codes out of the messages I
K> imported (I can do it manually but there are a lot of these messages).
I hate this. Eudora supposedly keeps it's messages in a something
like mbox format, but makes so many changes to the messages, that it
takes days to correct them if you want to import them into something
else.
The main problem I had with messages exported from Eudora, is that
HTML messages seem to get messed up by Eudora, for some reason they
all had a <x-html> tag put into them, and there content-type changed
to text/plain. This is why you see the tags, and it is the text/plain
tag which is the problem - I have no idea why Eudora does this.
There is a utility for Linux which I havn't tried myself called
mbx2mbox which supposedly makes Eudora messages more text like - I
think it is written in perl? - just search for it, and see if it helps
you.
Eudora also uses a format called format=flowed for text messages, this
is a Qualcomm standard but it is actually quite nifty and even hotmail
has started with it. Format flowed aims to solve problems associated
with messages being rewrapped on narrow screens, and this causing all
sorts of problems with the quote symbol ">" being moved. You wouldn't
normally notice format=flowed because the only change it makes other
than in the header is to distinguish hard line breaks and soft line
breaks by putting an extra space on the end of some lines, but when
you import messages you sometimes get <x-flowed> tags.
Together with the fact that attachments get ripped out of messages and
stored seperately this makes Eudora a nasty program to import from. I
have even tried to do the import via several other programs: OE5,
Becky 2, and Calypso - but none manage it very well.
In summary if you want to try to manually fix them then you can either
do it via a program that lets you edit the raw message (Such as Becky
2), or do it in Word or something. Just load up the .mbx file and
search for <x- and delete both <x- tags and for HTML messages change
the content type header to text/html. Work from a backup though, and
do your experiments with a small test mailbox.
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Dave - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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