[Users] Saving Messages Outside of Claws Mail

Sun Jul 18 12:04:48 CEST 2021

On Sat, 17 Jul 2021 08:07:39 +0200
Milan Obuch <claws-mail-users at dino.sk> wrote:

> On Sat, 17 Jul 2021 11:51:39 +0600, Dustin Miller <dustbiz at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > > > > > I'm looking for an efficient way to save email messages
> > > > > > outside of Claws Mail that will be readable by a text editor
> > > > > > or web browser without a lot of extra noise (i.e. headers,
> > > > > > HTML tags, etc.).     
> > > > > 
> > > > > For HTML tags, some filter is necessary to throw them away and
> > > > > rewrite some tokens.
> > > > >         
> > > > DM: Makes sense, but not sure I'm ready to put the time into
> > > > figuring out how to do this. It is possible to save the HTML
> > > > part of a message as an HTML file that opens correctly in a
> > > > browser, but this doesn't include the basic header info that
> > > > can be nice to have, although I guess this could just be
> > > > included in the file name. If I do a simple save of a message
> > > > with HTML and add '.html' to the end of the file, it will open
> > > > in my browser but just as text, not as HTML. And with either
> > > > approach, I'm still limited to doing one email at a time,
> > > > rather than batches.      
> > > 
> > > Naturally. You can do 'File->Save part as...' on any part of
> > > multipart message. For the HTML part of such a message, saved file
> > > most probably starts with <HTML> and ends with </HTML>. The one I
> > > test did. So maybe it is browser dependent? I opened this file
> > > with Opera, it was viewed as web page, not with <tags> et al. The
> > > same result with Luakit.   
> > DM: I wasn't clear enough in my example. In the last half of my
> > paragraph above, I was referring to doing 'File->Save email as...'
> > where the message has an HTML part and I save it with a file
> > extension '.html'. In this case, opening it with a text editor
> > shows a lot of HTML noise, but opening it with a web browser
> > doesn't actually make use of the HTML tags; thus, it doesn't result
> > in a simple solution. However, I presume that with script magic I
> > could strip out header lines I don't want and then either strip the
> > HTML tags to create a simple text file or else tweak the HTML tags
> > to create an HTML file that will render as HTML in a browser
> > (including the simple header info I am interested in).
> >  
> 
> This is expected - when you save whole message to file with name
> ending with .html, it has structure of text email, not of HTML file.
> Changing file name does not change the structure, so any browser sees
> such a file as text/plain, not text/html.
> 
DM: Got it. That's what I had assumed, but the confirmation is helpful.
> 
> > DM: In any case, I'll first check out the Mail Archiver plugin. If
> > that doesn't improve on my current method, then I'll need to choose
> > between my current method and learning to script something that will
> > work for batches. I appreciate your input on these things.  
> 
> Your choice. That's OK. If you try in future some scripting, you can
> ask then more. I am sure someone is able to answer you question :)
> 
DM: Sounds good; will do. :) ---Dustin