Moving a message to my desktop with thunderbird

[Raafat1991]

Hi guys...i want to move a certain message (after matched a filter) to my desktop as a txt file so how can i do that ?

my e-mail manager is Thunderbird .


thank you .

[pfeiffep]

Not a complete answer, however you might be able to use this info to find your local folders.

My Thunderbird local folders are located .... /home/pfeiffep/.thunderbird/6t6drol7.default/Mail/Local Folders

[Raafat1991]

Not a complete answer, however you might be able to use this info to find your local folders.

My Thunderbird local folders are located .... /home/pfeiffep/.thunderbird/6t6drol7.default/Mail/Local Folders

HI...but i didn't store my emails locally...

[schragge]

When I right-click on a message, and then select Save As..., it gets saved to disk in Unix mbox format. Does it sound as what you want?

[Raafat1991]

When I right-click on a message, and the select Save As..., it gets saved to disk in Unix mbox format. Does it sound as what you want?

I want that action to be automatically done,meaning with a filter of thunderbird or with a script of Python

[schragge]

HI...but i didn't store my emails locally...

I want that action to be automatically done,meaning with a filter of thunderbird or with a script of Python

Well, I guess your emails are stored on an IMAP server then. I'm not aware of any tool that allows you to write a python script that selectively fetches your emails, but if you don't mind doing it in lua, there's imapfilter.

[Raafat1991]

Well, I guess your emails are stored on an IMAP server then. I'm not aware of any tool that allows you to write a python script that selectively fetches your emails, but if you don't mind doing it in lua, there's imapfilter.

HI...no problem i will chagne my settings to POP3 if you have a script or a filter ?

[schragge]

Well, you also can try fdm. It works with both POP3 and IMAP, and uses regular expressions. Or readmsg from GNU mailutils.

[Raafat1991]

i'm going to read them but if you have a script to do that thank you...