[opensuse] Thunderbird - Any way to dump all messages from a folder to a single file?
Listmates, Is there a clean way to dump all messages from a thunderbird folder to a single text file? Something that would remove the headers in the process? I know I can always just copy the .thunderbird/blahblah/Mail/<server>/<folder> to somewhere else, but that is just the raw mail file. Anybody know any tricks for this without writing a script to do it? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
David C. Rankin wrote:
Listmates,
Is there a clean way to dump all messages from a thunderbird folder to a single text file? Something that would remove the headers in the process?
Take a look at formail. I think it'll probably do what you're after. -- /Per Jessen, Zürich -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Per Jessen wrote:
David C. Rankin wrote:
Listmates,
Is there a clean way to dump all messages from a thunderbird folder to a single text file? Something that would remove the headers in the process?
Take a look at formail. I think it'll probably do what you're after.
Well what-do-you-know? I have never heard of this little guy before in my life. Looks promising. Thanks Per! -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
David C. Rankin wrote:
Per Jessen wrote:
David C. Rankin wrote:
Listmates,
Is there a clean way to dump all messages from a thunderbird folder to a single text file? Something that would remove the headers in the process? Take a look at formail. I think it'll probably do what you're after.
Well what-do-you-know? I have never heard of this little guy before in my life. Looks promising.
Thanks Per!
Well, I looked at the little guy and it looks like it's back to parsing on From - starts the header and ^$ ends the header and ^$^$ ends the message. Probably get more control this way anyway ;-) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
David C. Rankin wrote:
I looked at [formail] and it looks like it's back to parsing on From - starts the header and ^$ ends the header and ^$^$ ends the message. Probably get more control this way anyway ;-)
To have formail extract all 'From:' addresses from a Thunderbird mailbox
file:
formail
Per Jessen wrote:
David C. Rankin wrote:
I looked at [formail] and it looks like it's back to parsing on From - starts the header and ^$ ends the header and ^$^$ ends the message. Probably get more control this way anyway ;-)
To have formail extract all 'From:' addresses from a Thunderbird mailbox file:
formail
To remove all headers and just dump the body of each mail:
formail
/Per
David C. Rankin wrote:
Per,
I read the man page start to end and I didn't get that at all. I'm glad it's there, but I sure didn't read that from the man page.
I agree, the man page could be better (as could so many of them). I should have posted a couple of short examples first, then pointed you to the man page. Still, when it comes to processing a mailbox file, formail is exactly the right tool. -- /Per Jessen, Zürich -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Per Jessen schreef:
David C. Rankin wrote:
Per,
I read the man page start to end and I didn't get that at all. I'm glad it's there, but I sure didn't read that from the man page.
I agree, the man page could be better (as could so many of them). I should have posted a couple of short examples first, then pointed you to the man page.
Is it useful to file a bug report? -- Amedee -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
David C. Rankin wrote:
Listmates,
Is there a clean way to dump all messages from a thunderbird folder to a single text file? Something that would remove the headers in the process? I know I can always just copy the .thunderbird/blahblah/Mail/<server>/<folder> to somewhere else, but that is just the raw mail file.
Anybody know any tricks for this without writing a script to do it?
You can select all the messages and then print them, but at best that will give you a postscript file, with headers. -- Use OpenOffice.org http://www.openoffice.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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