Importing mail from Thunderbird to Mail

I have discovered the secret. With MobileMe and push email coming with the new iPhone 2.0 upgrade, I decided it was time to stop using Thunderbird and start using Mail. The problem was that when I began to import Thunderbird mail into "Mail" I ran into all kinds of problems - some Thunderbird mail boxes were not recognized, some were imported but had a fraction of the emails in that folder imported, and etc.
Well, here's the solution and this is what I did - go to Eudora's web site, and find and download: "Eudora Mailbox Cleaner 4.8" - it is a small application that I saved on my desktop. Then I followed the following steps:
1. I compacted my Thunderbird mailboxes first (choose "File → Compact Folders" from the menu in Thunderbird) to remove already deleted messages from the mails files and to speed up the migration process.
2. Then I located my Thunderbird profile folder and dragged it onto the 'Eudora Mailbox Cleaner' icon in the Finder. Then I chose the drop-down menu item to select Thunderbird instead of Eudora (just followed the appropriate settings in the dialog, with Thunderbird as the source application which migrated my messages to Apple Mail).
3. All my mail data from Thunderbird showed up in Mail - Import folder - when I restarted Mail.
4. One more step - I then had to select each imported folder and go to the Menu item: "Mailbox/Rebuild" and the folder that looked empty was filled with all the imported messages.
5. It was slick, and I made the 3 days I had fretted over the process, trying everything I could think of, seem like a distant bad dream.
Paul Huddle
P.S. When you download the Eudora app, it comes with a read-me that explains way more then is needed to complete the process.

You’d get better results if you use Eudora Mailbox Cleaner to do the conversion instead.

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Two ways to go...
1st...
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http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214
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Get Applejack...
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Mac 101
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