752295 - Export recursively whole message folder tree as EML message folder tree

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Thunderbird :: General, enhancement, P2)

Description

[Thomas Stein]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/5.0; SLCC2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0)

Steps to reproduce:

I would appreciate if I could export (with only a few clicks) a big (huge) message folder tree recursively into an external folder tree. All messages hould be stored as EML files (1 message=1 EML file). I sometimes have situations where I have to perform certain message investigation, modification and statistical procedures onto such a message folder tree.

Similarly an import of such an EML message folder tree is desireable.

All this should be easy to implement.

Thank you
Thomas


Actual results:

see above


Expected results:

see above

Comment 1

[Hashem Masoud]

(In reply to Thomas Stein from comment #0)
Check this add-on: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/importexporttools

Comment 2

[Thomas Stein]

This tool does NOT provide recursive EML export!

Comment 3

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

Ludo, does this really block bug 725810?

Comment 4

[Thomas Stein]

Hmm, what info do you need?
Everything is obvious and clear what to do

Comment 5

[Joaquín Serna]

(In reply to Hashem Masoud from comment #1)

(In reply to Thomas Stein from comment #0)
Check this add-on:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/importexporttools

I tried to export a folder recursevly with all its messages in eml format with ImportExportTools NG as it is suposed to be the ImportExportTools successor, but wasn't able to do it succesfully.

I made this little extensions as a proof of concept of what I'd expect from a functionality like this.
https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/addon/export-to-zip/

Try it out with a folder with some subfolders and a few messages (that way it's faster since it doesn't provide a user interface and it may seem like it's doing nothing when there are a lot of messages to download)