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I hope no one have asked this before, try to search at the forum but no one asked this spesific

 

I read that its to large to pass the message body as parameter, but

- How to get the message body if the message is short?

I dont know how to use the massageid to get the messagebody, the file in .thunderbird is too big and in one file and i dont know how to extract data from it using messageid.

 

Please help how to get the message body?

 

I need the body to run script, the massage body maybe only have 5 word in it with 2 fixed word at the front

 

Thank You.

Hi

I have a similar question, but it would be enough for me to have a filter action that saved the current message as an .eml file in a given folder (like the save attachment action). Is that possible?

 

At the moment the only way I can see to do this is to set Thunderbird to forward emails as attachments. Then set a rule to forward the desired email to myself, and then have another rule that finds the forwarded copy and saves out the .eml attachment…

 

It would be much simpler if there was an action to save the message as .eml!

 

Any ideas gratefully received…

 

Many thanks – Robert

Hi

Many thanks.

With the method I am using at the moment (using forward as attachment) then the name of the file is the subject line of the message + .eml and that's fine for me (I can use the subject line then in the watching application)

Yes in a filter just the location for the file to be saved to… the same as for the "Save Attachment" action. Maybe an option to use the subject line or the unique message id or a given name would be useful for other people…

Yes, I am using a watcher application that monitors the folder… so I have some filter rules that use "Save Attachment" which then saves the attachments from some messages to the watched folder. But I have some cases where there is just an html body of the message instead of say an attachment – I can pull this out of the .eml file in the watcher app.

 

best regards – Robert

rkent said:

I wish there was an easy way to get the message body, but I have not found one. The problem is that the methods required to get the message body all work using async processing, but the search terms and filter actions are really best suited to sync processing.

I am guessing that what you are looking for is the message body in a filter action. My standard Run custom action does not support that. The next easiest thing to try would be writing a Javascript filter action using FiltaQuilla's javascript action. The basic steps would be that you need to stream the message, get the stream, and extract the body from that. Both normal message streaming and normal message MIME processing (which extracts the body) are async operations. Do you have any familiarity with Mozilla platform programming? If so, you might be able to get around this by 1) streaming to as nsISyncStreamListener (which attempts to bypass the async nature of steam message), then scanning the message yourself to locate the body as the stuff after \r\n\r\n. This would be around 10 lines of javascript. But nsISyncStreamListener is a risky function, I tried to use it to get the message in a search term, and that caused crashes. I think that a filter action would be more forgiving, but I have not tested is. If that does not work, you would need to write an extension, and that could probably do what you want.

Sorry that I don't have an easy answer for you. I realize that this is a desired feature.

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 How much would you charge to have your ext, save incoming mails to a folder as a action?

Yes, basically what I do manaully is save the email as a eml to a system folder.