Re: [Evolution] export collections of mails to txt file

[Zan Lynx <zlynx acm org>]

On 11/2/20 1:14 PM, Dan Kortschak via evolution-list wrote:
> Depending on what you define as quick and easy, exporting to mbox and
> then writing a script to parse the mbox file and export the parts you
> want should be straightforward. Most languages have mbox parsing
> libraries that will do the majority of the work for you.

You probably do want the libraries.

In the past I have written Perl scripts to rip up mbox files in about 
five minutes.

However, getting the various text encodings decoded correctly and 
wrapping flowed text into 72 columns with correct ">" quote marks is 
much trickier.

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