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<p dir="auto">On 16 May 2024, at 8:36, Bill Cole wrote:</p>
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<pre style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 100%; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word">On 2024-05-15 at 20:18:29 UTC-0400 (Wed, 15 May 2024 20:18:29 -0400)
Steven M. Bellovin <mailmate@lists.freron.com>
is rumored to have said:
> Is there any rational way to copy every message in a smart folder to a
> single zip file, preserving the date order? If I cmd-C the list of
> messages and copy/paste the files somewhere (or do the same via the
> command line), the order is quasi-random, not preserving dates. (I'm
> perfectly happy to do any sort of weird stuff from the command line.)
Have you tried the functions in the Commands->Export menu? It's a bit
non-obvious in UI but it will export a selected set of messages to a
directory full of individual messages or a mbox file.
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Bill Cole
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(AKA @grumpybozo@toad.social and many *@billmail.scconsult.com
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<p dir="auto"> —Steve Bellovin, <a href="https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb" style="color: #3983C4;">https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb</a></p>
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