Closed
Bug 364445
Opened 18 years ago
Closed 16 years ago
Save multiple messages as XML or HTML
Categories
(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, enhancement)
Thunderbird
Mail Window Front End
Tracking
(Not tracked)
RESOLVED
DUPLICATE
of bug 102960
People
(Reporter: moreau, Assigned: mscott)
Details
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0 SaveAs allows saving an individual message as text (.eml). However, it would be nice if one could save, not just one, but several email messages -probably as XML or HTML. Currently, I do this with Python/IMAP scripts. But it occurred to me it would be much easier done (as a user) with Thunderbird. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Select one message 2. Select a second message 3. Repeat... 4. File/SaveAs/XML... (or equivalent) Actual Results: Not available today. Can only save one single message. Expected Results: The contents of the selected messages saved in the same file. Here's a proposed bare format for saving: <messages> <message> <title>...</> <date>...</> <recipient>...</recipient> <!-- paragraphs below created when format is "format/flowed" --> <p>...</p> <p>...</p> ... <p>...</p> <sender>...</sender> </message> <message>...</> </messages> The content of this file could then be easily processed via XSLT to suit individual needs. One might also consider an option for importing such a XML file into a given IMAP folder.
Comment 1•18 years ago
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There already is a Save As HTML function, as you may have noticed -- but it's not very good, and limited to a single message at a time. I think that this feature might be better done as an extension, simply because different people will want different DTDs for the mail data.
OS: Windows XP → All
Hardware: PC → All
Version: unspecified → Trunk
Comment 2•17 years ago
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I've been wanting this function since forever myself. There's an extension called SmartSave: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/2887 It will save multiple messages as separate files, but can't save them into a single file.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 16 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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