I would like to migrate from Pathworks Mail (or Mail for Macintosh) to Eudora. How should I procede?
Eudora uses a different paradigm for accessing mail, than Pathworks Mail (DOS) or Mail for Macintosh. Rather than looking at the user’s mail on a server, Eudora only looks for new mail on a server. Under OpenVMS, this is interpreted as any mail messages within the NEWMAIL folder. Before you can transfer your old mail to Eudora, you need to make sure you don’t have any new mail waiting for you on the server. Use Pathworks Mail (or Mail for Macintosh) to check for new mail before proceding. This will ensure that the next step will transfer all the mail from your MAIL folder to Eudora. You should also make sure that Eudora is configured NOT to leave your mail messages on the server. Under the Mailbox menu in Eudora, select the New… item to create a new mailbox. Name this new mailbox “MAIL” (without the quotes). In VMS Mail, issue the command SELECT MAIL to select all the messages in your MAIL folder. Now issue the command MOVE NEWMAIL, to move all the messages from your MAIL folder to t
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