370961 - Save As File function doesn't work on multiple emails

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 58140

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, enhancement)

Description

[Neil Blevins]

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You cannot use the save as feature to save multiple messages. This makes saving 1000 emails to a text file very time consuming.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1) Select multiple emails
2) Go to File -> Save as -> File
3) The option is greyed out

Comment 1

[Neil Blevins]

Oh yes, I wanted to mention there are 2 ways of approaching this wish...

1) A function that batch saves the emails as text, so if you save 1000 emails, you get 1000 seperate txt files (their titles could be perhaps some combination of the date of the email, the folder they're in, the subject, etc).

2) When you say saveas, it saves all selected emails to a single txt file, that contains all the emails you've sleected, divided by some sort of divider test like lots of dashes.

Comment 2

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Duplicate of bug 58140?

Comment 3

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Or bug 102960...

Comment 4

[Neil Blevins]

Yes, those bugs do seem similar to this bug. Feel free to mark it as a dup if you'd like, however, it looks like this bug/sug has been floating around for nearly 4 years now. I implore you guys, please add this functionality, it seems rather trivial from a code perspective and obviously will make a lot of people very happy.

Comment 5

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

(In reply to comment #4)
> it seems rather trivial from a code perspective and obviously will make a lot
> of people very happy.

If it's trivial, then we await your patch.  If you can't patch, then you're in no position to be saying what's trivial.

Comment 6

[Neil Blevins]

I didn't mean to insult you. I simply said that because you already have the code up and running and installed to save a single message to a text file, I would assume saving multiple text files would be more straight forward than say creating a brand new feature from scratch. If I were a C++ coder I'd certainly add it myself, but alas, I'm only a lowly scripter.