Need a little help with Thunderbird

[DaiShan]

Ok, my company has been using Eudora of all things for a mail client for at least the past 6 years. We've recently convinced them to start letting us use thunderbird as it is more stable and has more features. The problem with Eudora is that it crashes, some users report crashes in excess of 5 times a day, mostly due to storing large amounts of mail in a single folder (several thousand)

We want to move all of these users to Thunderbird which we've found to be much more stable under similar circumstances, but we have a little problem. The CEO's email program has ~500 filters set up in Eudora that do all kinds of different things, from automatically filing emails to automatically printing all incoming emails. This functionality is a necessity, and we're trying to find a way that we can get those filters moved over from Eudora to Thunderbird. Does anyone know of a way?

 

[bofkentucky]

I believe you are SOL on this one, addressbooks and accounts should migrate, but filters probably won't. IIRC, the moz filters are storred in an undocumented binary file that is hard as hell to manually manipulate, even if you had a method for extracting the eudora rules in a sane manner. I really wish moz had made the addressbook and filter settings as xml, but they went with that screwball method instead becuase it was slightly faster to search.