Re: [Evolution] export collections of mails to txt file

2020-11-02 Thread Zan Lynx
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 major

Re: [Evolution] export collections of mails to txt file

2020-11-02 Thread Dan Kortschak via evolution-list
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 > abilit

Re: [Evolution] export collections of mails to txt file

2020-11-02 Thread Max Malycha
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

Re: [Evolution] export collections of mails to txt file

2020-11-02 Thread 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 som

Re: [Evolution] export collections of mails to txt file

2020-11-02 Thread Milan Crha via evolution-list
On Mon, 2020-11-02 at 15:53 +0100, Herr Oswald wrote: > Does anybody have a good idea for a quick&easy 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

Re: [Evolution] export collections of mails to txt file

2020-11-02 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
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 > abilit

Re: [Evolution] export collections of mails to txt file

2020-11-02 Thread Herr Oswald
> Does anybody have a good idea for a quick&easy 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] export collections of mails to txt file

2020-11-02 Thread Herr Oswald
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-evolutio