606009 - Eudora needs export

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Penelope Graveyard :: General, enhancement)

Description

[matt neuburg]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_4; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.18.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.2 Safari/533.18.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100722 Eudora/3.0.4

There is no ability to export a mailbox in a standard format (such as mbox). This means that once you've made Eudora your email program, you can never escape from it. This is a serious bar to usage. I can't adopt a mail program that I can't switch away from if it turns out that there is a need to do so.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Anne Moroney]

Having plaintext MBOX format is one of the reasons I stuck with Eudora so many years.

Comment 2

[Matt]

given the longevity of the import export tools add-on and the number of third party MBOX management tools around I think this bug should simply be closed as invalid

Comment 3

[matt neuburg]

(In reply to Matt from comment #2)
> given the longevity of the import export tools add-on and the number of
> third party MBOX management tools around I think this bug should simply be
> closed as invalid

As the submitter of the bug, I agree. Nothing was done about it, so I was, as I said, never able to use Eudora as my primary email program. And I don't know anyone else who uses it either at this point. In short, the bug report has outlived its usefulness, because it has outlived the application itself.

Comment 4

[Sylvestre Ledru [:Sylvestre]]

Penelope didn't see any activity in the vcs for the last 8 years, closing.