February 23, 2009

Upgraded to Thunderbird from Eudora

I finally moved from Eudora 5.1 to Thunderbird 2 for my email client. Eudora choked on a couple of messages this morning, turning my XP desktop into a video mess. This has happened several times over the last while, so after using Eudora for around 14 years, it was time to say goodbye to the orphaned software.

The shift to Thunderbird was relatively painless, though I'd been putting it off for years. Here's what I did:

  1. Backed up my Eudora folder
  2. Deleted unused Eudora personalities
  3. Emptied Eudora's Trash
  4. Compacted Eudora's mailboxes
  5. Intalled Thunderbird
  6. Used the Tbird import wizard to import Eudora mailboxes and address book
  7. The above step took an hour! (I have a lot of archived mail :-)
  8. Opened T-bird and tweaked various settings to my liking

So far, so good. I'm pleased to have a modern, Unicode capable, mail client. It'll take awhile to get as comfortable with Tbird as I was with Eudora, but I'm on my way.

Posted by Paul at February 23, 2009 10:44 AM