Re: [Evolution] export message to mbox and then process with script

2021-10-27 Thread Gilchrist, Michael Aaron via evolution-list
-Original Message- From: "Gilchrist, Michael Aaron via evolution-list" Subject: [Evolution] export message to mbox and then process with script Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2021 18:44:52 + I often want to save a message as a simple txt file. Currently, I

Re: [Evolution] export message to mbox and then process with script

2021-10-19 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2021-10-18 at 18:35 -0600, larry wrote: > On Tue, 2021-10-19 at 00:52 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote: > > One possibility is to save the message to a specific directory and > > have a cron job scan that directory for mbox files and apply your > > script to them. > > Would inotify_add_watch work f

Re: [Evolution] export message to mbox and then process with script

2021-10-18 Thread larry
On Tue, 2021-10-19 at 00:52 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote: > One possibility is to save the message to a specific directory and > have a cron job scan that directory for mbox files and apply your > script to them. Would inotify_add_watch work for automatically kicking of a script?

Re: [Evolution] export message to mbox and then process with script

2021-10-18 Thread Pete Biggs
On Mon, 2021-10-18 at 18:44 +, Gilchrist, Michael Aaron via evolution-list wrote: > I often want to save a message as a simple txt file. > Currently, I export a message I want to save to a .mbox file and then run a > script on it to extract the text. The script uses the From, Date, and Subject

Re: [Evolution] export message to mbox and then process with script

2021-10-18 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2021-10-18 at 18:44 +, Gilchrist, Michael Aaron via evolution-list wrote: > I often want to save a message as a simple txt file. > Currently, I export a message I want to save to a .mbox file and then > run a > script on it to extract the text.  The script uses the From, Date, > and Sub

Re: [Evolution] export message to mbox and then process with script

2021-10-18 Thread Alex Doll
-Original Message- From: "Gilchrist, Michael Aaron via evolution-list" Subject: [Evolution] export message to mbox and then process with script Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2021 18:44:52 + > I often want to save a message as a simple txt file. Currently, I > export a message I w

[Evolution] export message to mbox and then process with script

2021-10-18 Thread Gilchrist, Michael Aaron via evolution-list
I often want to save a message as a simple txt file. Currently, I export a message I want to save to a .mbox file and then run a script on it to extract the text. The script uses the From, Date, and Subject information to automatically generate a meaningful file name. I'm wondering how I can auto