A user made availabe a sample Eudora mailbox for me to check out.
Here is what I observed:
o The .toc file is not applicable to MHonArc. Only the .mbx
files are applicable.
o The MSGSEP resource should be set to the following:
<MsgSep>
^From \?\?\?(_at_)\?\?\?
</MsgSep>
I noticed that message body lines starting with "From " are
not escaped, so you need to redefine MSGSEP as above to avoid
messages from getting split that contain lines starting with
"From ".
o Eudora does not preserve multipart message bodies, but does
not modify the message headers to reflect this. This is why
you may get "Warning: No boundaries found in message body"
messages. MHonArc will fallback to processing the message
as a text/plain message, so you can ignore these warnings.
However, it should be noted that MHonArc is not processing
the original message data as sent by the sender of the message.
Therefore, attachments are not seen by MHonArc since it
Eudora extracts them out.
Now, one could tweak the text/plain filter to check for
"Attachment Converted: " lines at the bottom of a file and
copy the file at given pathname over into the archive. This
will only work if the mailbox is being processed on the same
system that attachment was extracted.
In sum, MHonArc can process Eudora mailbox files, but there are
some limitations as noted above due to how Eudora stores messages.
If it can be arranged, for best results, have MHonArc process the
original raw message, by-passing Eudora.
--ewh
