> > > So I'm having some trouble saving email message to disk. If I move > them to the "On this Computer" folder they appear in the .local folder > as text documents but otherwise I cannot access them on disk as far as > I can find.
It is unwise to play around with things in Evolution's private data store - you can cause confusion and data corruption for the program. And they aren't "text documents", it's a Maildir formatted mail store. > I'm trying to construct a process that saves the emails to disk > automatically so I can run a program on them at intervals and save the > data into a PostgreSQL database. Is there anyway to automatically move > the emails from my email address to the computer or a simpler avenue > to do what I want? Couple of possibilities - really depends on what format you want the mail in: 1. Use a filter to pipe the mail to a program as it's received. 2. Create a mail store on disk somewhere (either mbox or Maildir depending on how you want to process it), create a new mail account in Evo pointing to that mail store and then copy incoming mail into that mail store using a filter. A word of warning with filters and programs - the filter will wait until the external program terminates before continuing, so if the program takes a long time to do any processing, then Evo will also take a long time to process any incoming mail. P. -- Pete Biggs pete.biggs @ chem.ox.ac.uk Chemistry IT Support queries to [email protected] _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list [email protected] To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
