[Macpartners] Problem with Mac Eudora Mailbox Attachments transfer

[Kerem B Limon]

Quoting Stefan S <stefanmitadmin at gmail.com>:

> Hello:
> 
> [ I am posting from an outside non-MIT account because this mailing list
> is publically archived on the web, and google-able for my last name and
> MIT email address.  Until this major privacy flaw is addressed, I will
> post semi-anonymously. ]
> 

Is this a request to limit archives to list members or users only?

Re- 'semi-anonimity': A Google search for 'stefan s amps mit' rapidly leads to
your full name, which then when put in the MIT directory off the main page
and/or Google'd off of .mit.edu reveals many other public pages with your
explicit MIT e-mail address. For example,
http://web.mit.edu/ist/services/software/msca-liaisons.html . 30 secs, tops.
Granted, a spammer might not bother that much, but if I really wanted to find
you, it's trivial.

I'm not trying to be difficult, but perhaps if you would care to explain a bit
what you consider to be a "major privacy flaw" and how, the list admins could
potentially address your concerns. (Personally speaking, I can hardly find
anything I have sent to macpartners that I'd be concerned about having in
public view, but then I consider e-mail that isn't properly encrypted in
content fundamentally the insecure and mostly non-anonymous medium that it
is.)

On to your real question...

> I am having an issue with several older MAC upgrades I have been
> performing recently.  When trying to do a Mac Eudora transfer from older
> G4 and IMacs to newer machines, I am running the 'transfer wizard'
> function within the Eudora 6.1 installer.
> 
> It copies into the Eudora Folder the mailboxes correctly, but attachments
> are not being handled correctly.  If the attachments folder on the old
> system was in a location that is DIFFERENT than 'User:Documents:Eudora
> Folder:Attachments', then when attempting to access the attachemnts on the
> new system, is not possible.  It seems the location in each of the mail
> messages is pointing to a hard location.  In my one example, the users
> attachemnts were located on the root level of the old system harddrive (
> 'Mac HD:(attachment) '.
> 
> Does anyone know of a way to work around this problem, short of leaving
> all the attachments in exactly the same place as before, and renaming the
> new Hard Drive the same name as the old one??
> 

I've never used the "transfer wizard", but I can tell you that the Mac version
of Eudora (still) keeps a lot of information, including TOC content in the
resource fork of the corresponding mailbox file (unless you explicitly tell it
to use .toc files). Potentially, you could edit the resource to fix the
hardlinks (also a problem in the context of the .mbx files on Windows), but
that's unnecessarily cumbersome.

Another option *might* be (and I don't know if this will work), is to turn on
"old-style" .toc files on the original Mac, rebuild mailbox contents for all
getting the link info into the .toc files, script something quick to replace
the hardlniks, transfer to the new Mac, turn off old-style .toc settings and
rebuild the .toc resource forks. I don't know what this does to your message
status bits, though.

Eudora Mailbox Cleaner, BTW, though intended for importing into other mail
clients, gets referenced a lot...try reading up at
http://homepage.mac.com/aamann/Eudora_Mailbox_Cleaner.html

-Kerem


> Thank You,
> 
> Stefan S - AMPS
> 
> stefanmitadmin at gmail.com
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Kerem B. Limon
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