On Tuesday 07 November 2006 16:07, Basil Chupin wrote:
Daniel Bauer wrote:
On Tuesday 07 November 2006 15:12, Basil Chupin wrote:
Daniel Bauer wrote:
On Tuesday 07 November 2006 13:59, Basil Chupin wrote:
When I try to Print to File messages in Thunderbird (official release, 1.5.07, or the latest daily v2 beta) all I get in the output file is 'garbage' in the form of the print control and type of font characters- no text at all. (The printer is a Lexmark 4039 12R Plus and is using cups and printing to this is not a problem.) [...]
If you want to save the files as textfies, I guess, it's better just to use "save as" (ctrl-S) than printing to a file. Then you should get a simple text-file.
Doesn't work - looked at this some time ago. This works only for a single message but if select more than one then the option to Save As>Print to File is not available.
Hope this helps...
Every little bit helps :-) .
ok, another very little bit: I just found this (on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Thunderbird ): "Mozilla Thunderbird lacks a number of features that are found in other e-mail clients: * The ability to save multiple messages to one file " Save as: Do we talk about the same "save as"? I mean: file->save as->file Ctrl+S If you highligt a message in the list and then type Ctrl+S, then it should save it as a text file. Well, you would have to do this for every single file you want to save... I use Kmail, it can save several files into one text file, but as much as I understand, this would only be useful for some archive purposes. I guess, you'd rather want single text files you can search/look at in a directory - and then saving one by one is the only method, I guess. If it's for an archive, you could always just compress the whole directory that contains your messages to a tar file (you can use Konqueror for that). Good luck :-) Daniel -- Daniel Bauer photographer Basel Switzerland professional photography: http://www.daniel-bauer.com Madagascar special: http://www.sanic.ch