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Re: Get saved search data out of Thunderbird and into plain-text file

by NERDVANA (Deacon)
on Dec 22, 2021 at 21:27 UTC ( [id://11139845]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Get saved search data out of Thunderbird and into plain-text file

Another option (though maybe more effort) is to use Net::IMAP::Simple to connect to your imap server and list out the relevant messages, assuming all you needed was subject line and timestamp.

my $email_date= DateTime::Format::Mail->new->loose; my $imap= Net::IMAP::Simple->new($host, ...) or die; $imap->select($mailbox) or die; @message_ids= $imap->search("(SUBJECT foo)") or die; for my $msg_id (@message_ids) { my $header_lines= $imap->top($msg_id) or die; my $head= MIME::Head->from_file(\join('', @$header_lines)); my $date= $email_date->parse_datetime($head->get("Date")); my $subject= $head->get("Subject"); printf "%s %s : %s\n", $date->ymd, $date->hms, $subject; }

There's a bit more work to do if you have UTF-7 subject lines or need to unpack the date timestamp from the Received headers rather than the sender's date header.

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