On Mon, 2020-11-02 at 15:53 +0100, Herr Oswald wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I need to export the text contents of a number of messages to a text > file. I tried mbox export, but there I get a lot of unwanted contents > (headers, attachments etc). Regexing out them is more than my limited > abilities can do... > > I found this very old thread: > http://gnome-evolution-general.1774414.n4.nabble.com/exporting-mails-to-txt-or-pdf-td4655326.html > > but the attempt to drag messages to a nautilus folder reliable > crashes > evo and at least the mouse... > > Does anybody have a good idea for a quick&easy solution? > > Cheers, > Wolf
Depending on what you define as quick and easy, exporting to mbox and then writing a script to parse the mbox file and export the parts you want should be straightforward. Most languages have mbox parsing libraries that will do the majority of the work for you. Dan _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
