I got this to work, but there are some caveats. First, if you have your Eudora mail in other than the default directory (which I did), The Bat! won't be able to find it. It will, however, bring up a dialogue box so that you can navigate to the Eudora folder where your mail is kept and show The Bat! where it is. The Bat! will then present a selection list of all your Eudora mailboxes from which you can choose the ones you want to import. The Bat! will also allow you to select the target folder(s) where you want the imported mail to be placed; it can also create new folders for you.

During the import process The Bat! creates a series of temporary files, apparently one for every message that's imported. In my case (under Windows XP) they were created in the user profile, i.e., the \Documents and Settings\user directory. The file names are in the format BATnnnn.tmp, where nnnn is a sequential hexadecimal number. This naming scheme allows for a little more than 65,000 messages to be imported and here is where I hit a snag because I was importing a little more than twice that many.

In my case, The Bat! was not deleting the temporary files after they were used. So, not only did I have tens of thousands of additional temporary files on my hard drive, but when BATFFFF.tmp was reached the import process stalled with the CPU churning at 100%. The fix was easy enough (after I figured it out), I simply ran a delete (del /S BAT*.tmp) from a command prompt and the import process was "kick started" again. Several hours later, once the process was complete, I ran a final delete to clean up my hard drive.

Other than the above and the fact that the process is relatively slow, the import went fine. I got all the e-mail transferred that I needed, along with all of the original attachments.