Re: [Evolution] export collections of mails to txt file
On 11/2/20 1:14 PM, Dan Kortschak via evolution-list wrote: 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. You probably do want the libraries. In the past I have written Perl scripts to rip up mbox files in about five minutes. However, getting the various text encodings decoded correctly and wrapping flowed text into 72 columns with correct ">" quote marks is much trickier. -- Knowledge is Power -- Power Corrupts Study Hard -- Be Evil ___ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
Re: [Evolution] export collections of mails to txt file
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 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
Re: [Evolution] export collections of mails to txt file
Am Montag, den 02.11.2020, 17:22 +0100 schrieb Herr Oswald: > > A manual way would look like: > > a) view a message > > b) select portion of the text you are interested in in the preview > > panel > > c) paste it to a text editor > > d) save the file > > e) close the editor > > f) repeat from step a) as long as other messages to save as text > > exist. > > > > There might be some tools to convert mbox to text, I mean command > > line > > tools, but I'm not aware of any (not using it). I'm sorry. > > Bye, > > Milan > > Thank you Milan, so I was not completely stupid, good to know. > As I'm not processing rocket science secrets, hopefully the use of > that > online converter won't kill me... Hi together, there might be another way to export the complete mail to text (I have tested the way on Ubuntu 20.04) - but it works only with mails in plain text format (HTML does not work)! * install cups-pdf to get a local pdf-printer on your system (for all applications * install poppler-utils (there is a script called pdftotext included) * print the mail you want to get as a text-file via cups-pdf. On my system cups-pdf is configuered to put the pdf-file in /var/spool/cups-pdf/$LOGNAME * create a temporary directory for working, eg. /tmp/export-pdf * select all pdf-files you want as a textfile and copy/move them from cups-pdf directory to the temporary folder * cd into /tmp/export-pdf * run following commands: for i in *.pdf; do pdftotext $i; done * you will find a bunch of textfiles, named like your pdf-file, but with suffix .txt That's it. Best regards Max ___ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
Re: [Evolution] export collections of mails to txt file
> A manual way would look like: > a) view a message > b) select portion of the text you are interested in in the preview > panel > c) paste it to a text editor > d) save the file > e) close the editor > f) repeat from step a) as long as other messages to save as text > exist. > > There might be some tools to convert mbox to text, I mean command > line > tools, but I'm not aware of any (not using it). I'm sorry. > Bye, > Milan Thank you Milan, so I was not completely stupid, good to know. As I'm not processing rocket science secrets, hopefully the use of that online converter won't kill me... Cheers, Wolf ___ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
Re: [Evolution] export collections of mails to txt file
On Mon, 2020-11-02 at 15:53 +0100, Herr Oswald wrote: > Does anybody have a good idea for a quick solution? Hi, nothing quick and easy from my side. A manual way would look like: a) view a message b) select portion of the text you are interested in in the preview panel c) paste it to a text editor d) save the file e) close the editor f) repeat from step a) as long as other messages to save as text exist. There might be some tools to convert mbox to text, I mean command line tools, but I'm not aware of any (not using it). I'm sorry. Bye, Milan ___ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
Re: [Evolution] export collections of mails to txt file
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 solution? What format are these mails in? HTML? Plaintext? Rich Text? Something else? poc ___ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
Re: [Evolution] export collections of mails to txt file
> Does anybody have a good idea for a quick solution? > OK, found a online converter which does the job: https://www.coolutils.com/de/online/MBOX-to-TXT Nevertheless, as it's confidential info, I'd rather not do these things online... Wolf ___ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
[Evolution] export collections of mails to txt file
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 solution? Cheers, Wolf ___ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
