Hi Alug
I'm interested in computers in general, ie Apps, maintenance, networks, programming; I'm fairly aware of the main arears. I've seen Linux demonstrated, but not used it yet, though I intend to.
My main concern at the moment is with something different, ie. the Thunderbird email app.
*I need to post this query*, can you tell me the best link to use?
Query I store my emails in folders I create within Thunderbird, then hope to export those I need to keep longer to my main drive outside of Thunderbird. This is fine for just one/individual email, as I can do a SaveAs to file. This is not fine if I want to export/save a whole folderfull of emails, as the 'File or Template' option of File/SaveAs/File or Template is greyed out. I seen discussions on Mozilla and elswhere about saving profiles outside of Mozilla, but this doesn't seem to address the problem I have, maybe I'm wrong. Also maybe it's not possible to Save/Export the emails in bulk.
Thanks very much
AC
On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 12:01 +0000, chestep wrote:
Hi Alug
Hi there
Query I store my emails in folders I create within Thunderbird, then hope to export those I need to keep longer to my main drive outside of Thunderbird. This is fine for just one/individual email, as I can do a SaveAs to file. This is not fine if I want to export/save a whole folderfull of emails, as the 'File or Template' option of File/SaveAs/File or Template is greyed out.
I am not a thunderbird user but can't you select multiple messages by holding down the control key ? or a block of messages by clicking on the first one and then holding down alt when you click on the last one ? What happens to the SaveAs option then ?
Alternatively if there is an export function can it not select specific folders to export from or can it only do the whole of your mail store ? If you only get an option for Inbox, Drafts, Sent etc then can you create a new folder called archive at that level rather than a sublevel of the Inbox and then just export that ?
Sorry mostly guesswork there
On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 00:15:46 +0000 Wayne Stallwood ALUGlist@digimatic.co.uk allegedly wrote:
Alternatively if there is an export function can it not select specific folders to export from or can it only do the whole of your mail store ? If you only get an option for Inbox, Drafts, Sent etc then can you create a new folder called archive at that level rather than a sublevel of the Inbox and then just export that ?
Indeed there is. Tools -> Import/Export in mbox/eml format -> Export folder.
Then select the directory you wish to store the folder in.
Mick
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