[Users] Three questions regarding claws-mail

[Ricardo Mones]

Hi Jerry,

On Fri, 29 Jul 2016 14:23:01 -0400
Jerry <jerry at seibercom.net> wrote:

> When comparing MS Outlook to Claws-Mail, I find three very, at least to
> me, important things that appear to be missing from Claws-Mail.
> 
> 1)	I cannot seem to find a way to export an entire mailbox
> folder. I can export individual mailboxes in the folder, but not the
> folder itself. That is a serious problem for me.

A workaround for this could be to put all folder structure below one
(like inbox) instead of directly from the toplevel mailbox.

> 2)	A lot of my work is for a municipality. Out emails are
> subject review by the public upon demand. While I can print out a
> single email, I cannot print out several emails without having to okay
> each one. A serious problem if I am trying to print out a hundred
> emails. This is a SERIOUS problem.
> 
> 3)	Very often I am asked to save these emails in PDF format for
> distribution. In MS Outlook I simply choose the Acrobat Printer and
> then where I want them saved. The emails are all assembled into one PDF
> document. In Claws-Mail, I am asked for a new name for each email.
> While that might be useful in some circumstances, it is not a viable
> option when trying to print out a large number of emails. Again, as in
> #2, a SERIOUS problem.
> 
> Does anyone know of a way around this?

These two are basically the same, which you (?) already reported some time
ago¹. A possible workaround could be an action to call some small script
capable of parsing mails and call printing sub-system with the result of
joining all of them.

Of course that script has to be written first :) but most of script
languages (perl or python for example) have libraries to deal with mail
messages and invoking external programs.

HTH,

¹ http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mail/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3335
-- 
  Ricardo Mones 
  ~
  You have the capacity to learn from mistakes. You'll learn a lot 
  today.                                           /usr/games/fortune

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