[Users] Three questions regarding claws-mail

[pete nikolic]

On Fri, 29 Jul 2016 15:30:11 -0400
Jerry <jerry at seibercom.net> wrote:

> 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.
> 

Some of us on the other hand find the way claws works to be bang on the money and
are extremely glad it is not like the Virus Door Outlook  opinions vary  .


Pete .