The FROM email address and the date stamp would be unique enough, wouldn't it?
See I don't need complete or fancy. All I need is the five bits of info. I don't even care about the text/html split in the body that emails all tend to sport these days. I just want the text. There is a boatload of meta information in a mail header that I simply don't care about. mbox is like .rtf for example. Every single word processor since Wordstar can import/export rtf flawlessly. If TNEF or whatever other extension is important to you and whatever email client you use won't push that to mbox then further work, perhaps a converter from pst, for example, would be required. The email I intend to process comes from a wide variety of sources, as email is known to do. By keeping what I want as a core subset of all email and not worrying about everyone's special proprietary extensions I can be guaranteed that an email will never lack for what I want from it, even if that is an empty string. Once an email is in Leo as a node it can easily be sorted using whatever scheme a person could come up with using clones, backlinks, python scripts etc. I could see having a @mail node being a common feature of a wide number of different files. Maybe not programming files but pretty much every other information management task would likely benefit. Chris On Thu, Feb 7, 2019 at 9:45 AM Josef <joe...@gmx.net> wrote: > > > On Thursday, February 7, 2019 at 6:27:55 PM UTC+1, Chris George wrote: >> >> >> The FROM: line becomes the uniques identifier for the node and forms the >> headline. >> >> The FROM line is hardly unique: I get lots of mails from the same sender. > Apart, I would very much like to see the subject too in the headline. > > Regarding TNEF: Since this is a Microsoft specific extension of the mail > protocol, Leo would have to deal with it somehow, because the message body > is packed up quite differently from the way mbox does this normally. > > - Josef > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "leo-editor" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to leo-editor+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to leo-editor@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to leo-editor+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to leo-editor@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
