Eudora Mac Tools

This project will provide tools for manipulating Eudora mailbox files on MacOS X.

Eudora mailbox files on the Mac contain a message index in the resource fork. This is very good in terms of performance, but the lack of formal documentation of their format has made it difficult for independent developers to build programs and conduits for Eudora on this platform. This project aims to remedy this.

The initial release (R0-5) (download here) contains a program which dumps the contents of this index in human readable form for the known fields and hex and ascii dumps for the remainder.

All interested developers and users can help by exploring the index format with these tools. Hopefully this will ease further exploration of these files and the development of other tools.

Other Resources

There have been several previous explorations of the table of contents files that are used by Eudora on the Windows platform:

TOC pages by Ken Simler