Gee, I can actually contribute some useful information to the discussion that
may be useful. I hope that Vaughn hasn't set me to ignore!
1- Right click on a message that you want to go into a seperate folder
2- Select 'CREATE FILTER'
3- Follow the appropriate steps for creating folders/filters
4- Go to the first message in the mailbox
5- <CNTRL> J
It will scroll down the messages moving each message to the appropriate folder
(make all of your filters/folders at the beginning). If it just alternates
between two messages that means that your at the wrong end of the list.
On Saturday 31 July 2004 06:38, Josef Lowder wrote:
> Vaughn, I'm very interested in your idea.
> I also use kmail, though I have set up lots of folders into which I move
> mail as it corresponds to different themes and projects; but I think your
> mbex idea would be useful and I'd like to see what you have and
> experiment with it. Can you attach it to an email and send a sample
> to me at joe@actionline.com?
>
> If I'm understanding you right, it seems that your mbex utility might
> possibly be further developed with some additional applications,
> including perhaps extracting repetitive subjects, "from" addresses,
> and other identifiers that can be saved in a "to-be-flushed" file and
> extracting to the trash folder -- and perhaps just flushing them all
> automatically. I see a number valuable possibilities.
>
> joe
>
> ----------------------------------------------
>
> On Friday 30 July 2004 20:17, you wrote:
> > Hello fellow comrades in the Penguin:
> >
> > I had an idea for a new open-source tool, but I don't know if I'm
> > duplicating any existing effort. Here's the background: I use Kmail for
> > all my email. I have only two input mailboxes set up - one is for the
> > contact address on my web page, which gets mostly spam. The other is for
> > everything else. Over the last 3 years I've accumulated a ton of
> > project-related correspondence in my inbox, messages I want to save for
> > future reference. I've been lazy about actually saving the messages
> > elsewhere and then deleting them from the inbox. The thing is just too
> > darned big now! I don't want to pre-configure extra mailboxes; sometimes
> > a project goes on longer than I expect, and suddenly I have 100 or more
> > messages in there on that subject. What I need is a batch processor for
> > the email in my inbox, so I can archive old messages and clean up the
> > file. These would be some useful functions:
> >
> > 1. Extract all email from a particular person to a particular directory,
> > with each message having the receive date appended to the file name.
> > Attachments would automatically be extracted and saved in the same place,
> > with filenames modified to avoid overwriting.
> > 2. Extract all email on a particular thread and concatenate it to a
> > single file, with separator lines ("----------") in between the different
> > messages. 3. Extract all unique sender names so I can save them in my
> > contacts file (which is actually a spreadsheet.) This assumes of course
> > that I delete spam on a timely basis (which is the only timely thing I do
> > at the moment.)
> >
> > Part I is pretty much finished, for my purposes anyway. I call it mbex,
> > for mailbox batch extractor. I think it could be usable for many setups
> > because the mbox file format seems to be a widespread standard. But if I
> > was going to distribute this I would need to add lots of options, like
> > how to format the dates that are appended to the file names. (I do it
> > year-first so they sort alphabetically.) Feature number 1 will be the
> > most useful to me, but the others would also be great timesavers. But
> > maybe I'm duplicating features that are already in more sophisticated
> > email clients. Or maybe I've missed some feature of Kmail (it's not in
> > the help, but heck, I've discovered a lot of features of The Gimp that
> > aren't in the help file.) I've seen two similar programs mentioned in
> > Google but neither site would come up, implying that perhaps these
> > efforts haven't come to anything.
> >
> > Any comments?
> >
> > Vaughn
>
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