Import from Eudora

I'm finally making the transition from Eudora to Mail.
Mail imported mailboxes from Eudora. However, it only imported the mailbox names, not their contents. That was disappointing.
I suppose that's the way it's supposed to work, but I want to get a reality check on that.
Is there a way to import Eudora mailboxes, indcluding all the messages in them? How?
I guess I could email all those messages to myself, but there must be thousands of them.
Thanks in advance,
Tim

Try Eudora Mailbox Cleaner: http://homepage.mac.com/aamann/EudoraMailboxCleaner.html
Good luck!
Bronson

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