[Users] Three questions regarding claws-mail

[Jerry]

On Fri, 29 Jul 2016 21:08:48 +0200, Ricardo Mones stated:

>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.

I suppose, but the larger, more important question is why that
restriction is there to begin with. It does not exist in MS Outlook.

>> 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

I had forgotten that I had reported this deficiency awhile ago. I have
been using MS Outlook at work, so I did not notice the problem. Now
that I am working at home with claws-mail, the problem is manifesting
itself again. The only truly functional way to handle this is to use MS
Outlook for my municipal email account at home too. Sadly I have
neither the time, inclination nor probably the skill to start writing
scripts for what, in my opinion, should already be supported behavior in
claws-mail to begin with.

Thanks for your response.

-- 
Jerry