Actually, you can export messages to eml format from within Thunderbird.
Go to the folder you want, Home to the top of the list, and
Control-Shift-End to select all.
Now you can either open the context menu with the Application key or
File menu and use Save as.
In the tree view select the folder you want to save to and press Enter.
When you tab down that folder name should be in the folder edit box.
Tab down to the Select folder button and activate it.
I don't know if Window-Eyes is missing something here but activating
that button executes the process.
The odd thing is that if you do the same thing with a single message you
can choose text format. And with eml I get 18 lines of header
information at the top of every message file. But even with text format
I still get to, from, subject, and date.
I'd go search the Thunderbird site to see if there's an add-on to
convert folders to text files.
Hth,
Tom
On 3/14/2017 10:59 PM, Thomas N. Chan via Talk wrote:
There's a software call
Address magic plus.
Its not free but it can convert messages, address book into other format.
What I will do is to use that software, select the folder and extract all
of them into eml format.
Eml its basically, text unless you have Unicode character on those email.
But its not free but I have been or have that software for quite a few
years.
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regards
Thomas N. Chan
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Subject: A question for advanced users of Thunderbird
I have asked this elsewhere, but the responses I have thus far received
haven't solved the problem.
One of my Thunderbird folders contains more than a hundred saved
messages. I am attempting to locate a means of exporting the messages
in this folder and then saving each to a text file. I know I can do
this one at a time, but I need an automated means if possible. First of
all, is there an export facility in Thunderbird? I do not wish to
export all messages, just those in one specific folder.
Thanks for ideas.
Don Roberts
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