e-mail: I'd rather switch (but I don't want to fight)

[Malcolm Hamilton]

Thankyou to everyone who weighed in on the good, the bad and the ugly 
of different e-mail programs!

. but now, if you don't mind, I have a follow-up question:  Michael 
Bigley said that it's "never easy to switch" from a proprietary 
database app., like Outlook Express, to the a Unix mbox format, like 
Eudora,  and I'd like to know if this is what he means...

Here's the problem:  when I imported my three year's worth of e-mails 
from OE into Eudora, all the original 'from' settings became just the 
one ('Malcolm Hamilton', my name) and all the original 'date 
received' settings became just one date (the date I imported all the 
e-mails).  Suddenly there's no order to the hundreds of e-mails I've 
had from my dad over the years!  I can't sort by date, which is the 
order I'd like them to be in, because they're all the same date.

My first question is this:  Have I overlooked doing something obvious 
when importing into Eudora (or exporting from OE)... some setting 
that will fix this?

Or, failing that:  is there not some little app or utility or 
applescript or whatever out there, that would convert from a 
proprietary to an mbox format - - and allow me to keep the original 
dates and 'from's???
Thank you so much for any advice!
Malcolm