Re: [MlMt] Copying a message
If you use Evernote, you can forward the mail you want to keep to your Evernote specific email address, and it will create a note with a clean (searchable) representation of the original email. You can also drag and drop it into a Devonthink window, with the same final output as with Evernote (incidentally Devonthink can keep a searchable database of all Mailmate emails). Alain On 28 Oct 2018, at 6:32, Bill Cole wrote: On 27 Oct 2018, at 20:10, Scott A. McIntyre wrote: Since MailMate doesn't have a way to export email to a standard format Umm... I don't believe that to be true. Drag & drop into the Finder creates a plain text file for each message with a .eml extension which adheres to RFC822 email message format. The file naming is a mess, but it works. The "Export" bundle (Command->Export) can save one or more messages to a specified folder as the same sort of ".eml" file with less sketchy naming or as a ".mbox" file which is a Unix mailbox file: essentially a series of plain text RFC822 messages delimited by lines containing 'From' the sender address, and the delivery time, with those fields delimited by a space. These are standard formats. They are *plain text* formats. Most mail client software with any import capability will understand them both. Most mail server software has some form of support for both, either for transport or for delivered messages. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Available For Hire: https://linkedin.com/in/billcole ___ mailmate mailing list mailmate@lists.freron.com https://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate Alain ___ mailmate mailing list mailmate@lists.freron.com https://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate
Re: [MlMt] Copying a message
On 28 Oct 2018, at 6:32, Bill Cole wrote: Drag & drop into the Finder creates a plain text file for each message with a .eml extension which adheres to RFC822 email message format. The file naming is a mess, but it works. Just for the record, it is [configurable](https://manual.mailmate-app.com/hidden_preferences#other). -- Benny https://freron.com/become_a_mailmate_patron/ ___ mailmate mailing list mailmate@lists.freron.com https://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate
Re: [MlMt] Copying a message
Hi, Since MailMate doesn't have a way to export email to a standard format Umm... I don't believe that to be true. Sorry - I was mixing up my directionality. I know about, and use, all of the methods you mention -- but the Keyboard Maestro macros are still something I've been making heavy use of (for my particular work flow which required the automation and variables/etc). MailMate is focussed on IMAP as a way to get mail, rather than locally managed mailboxes on a local system (that Mail.app does). That's the bit I was thinking of with respect to the complexities (Maildir vs. mbox vs whatever). Again, not a gripe at all. It's come up on the list many times over the years, and I know a number of people use things like DevonThink or their own local IMAP server to simulate the use of local mailboxes. The Import Messages feature works well for certain use cases, but not all. Thanks to Bill for summarising some of the other ways to dump/export/save a specific message. Cheers, Scott ___ mailmate mailing list mailmate@lists.freron.com https://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate
Re: [MlMt] Copying a message
On 27 Oct 2018, at 20:10, Scott A. McIntyre wrote: Since MailMate doesn't have a way to export email to a standard format Umm... I don't believe that to be true. Drag & drop into the Finder creates a plain text file for each message with a .eml extension which adheres to RFC822 email message format. The file naming is a mess, but it works. The "Export" bundle (Command->Export) can save one or more messages to a specified folder as the same sort of ".eml" file with less sketchy naming or as a ".mbox" file which is a Unix mailbox file: essentially a series of plain text RFC822 messages delimited by lines containing 'From' the sender address, and the delivery time, with those fields delimited by a space. These are standard formats. They are *plain text* formats. Most mail client software with any import capability will understand them both. Most mail server software has some form of support for both, either for transport or for delivered messages. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Available For Hire: https://linkedin.com/in/billcole ___ mailmate mailing list mailmate@lists.freron.com https://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate
Re: [MlMt] Copying a message
Hi Michael, I sometimes want to copy a message and paste it into another application (usually OmniOutliner, sometimes a plain-text document) -- basically something similar to what you might expect if you typed command-c when a message is selected in the message list and content was copied to the clipboard so that it can be pasted elsewhere. I'd like to get both the basic headers (from, to, subject, date) and the body, preferring plain-text formatting. There doesn't seem to be a built-in MailMate command to do this, unless I'm just overlooking something really obvious. Is there a way? Failing that, has anyone implemented anything like this already, perhaps in the form of a bundle? I looked through https://github.com/mailmate but nothing looks like like it would do it. Since MailMate doesn't have a way to export email to a standard format (not a gripe, I understand the headaches that come with that), I've solved this sort of thing via one of two paths: 1) Using the MailMate built-in "Show in Finder" command. This gives you the .eml file. You can now "do stuff" with that EML file, which may suffice. 2) Increasingly, I've been using Keyboard Maestro to create automation flows like you mention above. For example, I've created a Macro that is only active in MailMate that will select the current message, then select the Show Raw Message option. From there, Keyboard Maestro copies all of the text into a named clipboard (or system clipboard) and then activates Sublime Text. KM then pastes into Sublime Text and creates a few variables: It extracts the Subject from the headers, as well as today's date and the Date header from the email. KM can then save the message and use the variables created in the previous step to create a useful filename, saving the file as a .eml to a standardised place for my workflows. The second way is a lot more involved, possibly overkill, but, it does permit essentially "one button" activation of a macro that creates a file that I can then immediately import into OmniOutliner or anything else that reads .eml on macOS. Not quite the same as a Bundle approach, but, since I've been doing more and more with Keyboard Maestro, it was pretty easy to do. The resulting .eml works fine as an item in OmniOutliner, and clicking on it opens the message within the app. What I haven't really tried to test is how that works with loads of attachments -- but, in theory, it should work the same as using the .eml file directly from Show In Finder. Regards, Scott ___ mailmate mailing list mailmate@lists.freron.com https://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate
Re: [MlMt] Copying a message
On 27 Oct 2018, at 4:21, Michael Hucka wrote: I sometimes want to copy a message and paste it into another application (usually OmniOutliner, sometimes a plain-text document) -- basically something similar to what you might expect if you typed command-c when a message is selected in the message list and content was copied to the clipboard so that it can be pasted elsewhere. I'd like to get both the basic headers (from, to, subject, date) and the body, preferring plain-text formatting. There doesn't seem to be a built-in MailMate command to do this, unless I'm just overlooking something really obvious. Is there a way? Failing that, has anyone implemented anything like this already, perhaps in the form of a bundle? I looked through https://github.com/mailmate but nothing looks like like it would do it. No, I don't think anything like this exists, but it could probably be done using a bundle command (using the `canonical` input type) which is described [as follows](https://github.com/mailmate/mailmate_manual/wiki/Bundles): “This is equivalent to the text displayed in MailMate when using the “Prefer Plain Text” option. It is, most often, based on the `text/plain` MIME part. The text is decoded (quoted-printable/base64), deflowed (`format=flowed`), and converted to UTF-8.” -- Benny https://freron.com/become_a_mailmate_patron/ ___ mailmate mailing list mailmate@lists.freron.com https://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate
