Re: Archiving Mailbox contents
Re: Archiving Mailbox contents
- Subject: Re: Archiving Mailbox contents
- From: "Michael P. Wilson" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 23:08:15 -0500
John,
I think if you were to go to the actual library directory, you'd find
they're already stored that way. The ~/Library/Mail/Mailboxes/*.mbox
entries are actually directories
Mail.app uses an mbox format. But finder "protects" you from going
directly into the directories.
For instance, if you open a terminal window and:
"cd ~/Library/Mail/Mailboxes/INBOX.mbox"
"ls -l"
You'd see a file there called mbox. which is precisely what you are
describing.
But if you were to look for it in the Finder you wouldn't be able to
find it.
Now granted, this all implies that you don't mind a little subversion
and perhaps some flinging of shell script.
- Mike
On Tuesday, Feb 4, 2003, at 20:00 America/New_York, JDB Science LLC
wrote:
Does anyone have an Applescript for Mail.app that translates a
collection of messages in a mailbox into a single large plain text
file with the headers and message bodies concatenated together?
I would like to be able to archive the contents a selected mailbox so
that its contents can be viewed by a simple ASCII text editor. This is
meant to facilitate tracking of correspondence in a more robust, cross
platform manner.
I should perhaps emphasize that I need the source code for such an
AppleScript so that i can tweak the archive to suit the required style.
Thank you for any suggestions
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JDB Science, LLC email: email@hidden
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