Re: [Evolution] export message to mbox and then process with script

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Mon, 2021-10-18 at 18:44 +0000, Gilchrist, Michael Aaron via
evolution-list wrote:
> I often want to save a message as a simple txt file.
> Currently, I export a message I want to save to a .mbox file and then
> run a
> script on it to extract the text.  The script uses the From, Date,
> and Subject
> information to automatically generate a meaningful file name.  I'm
> wondering how
> I can automate this.
>
> I see on the webbernet to using pipes and, alternatively, filters,
> but can't seem
> to find the relevant documentation.

The procmail package was useful for this sort of thing, but IIRC it
hasn´t been updated in many years. It's still in the Fedora repo
though.

poc