* How to just save a group of messages to a file?
@ 1999-05-13 13:34 Rupa Schomaker (list)
1999-05-13 13:53 ` David S. Goldberg
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From: Rupa Schomaker (list) @ 1999-05-13 13:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
Lets say that I have 100 or so messages that I just want to save to a
file (whether mailbox format or not). Ok, that sounds easy. About
half of them are large (100+k) HTML messages that may or may not be
formatted correctly.
I tried:
1) process mark the messages and use Xo -- worked up to the point I
came across and HTML message. pgnus decides to render it with w3
before saving. HTML is badly formated, w3 stops, the save stops. :(
Not to mention that the message is a big monster table so it would
take about 3 minutes to render (we already know this though).
2) Select the messages and use Of -- I'm asked for each file where I'd
like to save it. Why can't I just say "use this file for everything"?
So, I start hitting enter for everything and it goes to the next
HTML message and procedes to try to render it and fail. :(
These messages are in an IMAP message store, so I can't just copy 'em
out (well, I could but not easily). What am I missing (just want to
save the bytes that are in the messages to a file, no rendering or
interpreting or anything else)?
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* Re: How to just save a group of messages to a file?
1999-05-13 13:34 How to just save a group of messages to a file? Rupa Schomaker (list)
@ 1999-05-13 13:53 ` David S. Goldberg
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From: David S. Goldberg @ 1999-05-13 13:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
> Lets say that I have 100 or so messages that I just want to save to
> a file (whether mailbox format or not). Ok, that sounds easy.
> About half of them are large (100+k) HTML messages that may or may
> not be formatted correctly.
Two ways I have done this sort of thing:
1: process mark the articles and then O-s to create a SOUP packet.
There's an option (sorry it's been a long time since I've done this so
I don't recall exactly what it is) to have the SOUP packet be
generated in mbox format. You don't need to use all the nnsoup
stuff. That way.
2: create an nnmbox group and then process mark and B-c the articles
to it.
Neither O-s nor B-c reads the articles so w3 won't get called to
render them during the copy process.
hth,
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