[MlMt] MmFilenameFormatString question

[thfl at me.com]

Hi,

I want to customize the file name string when dragging a mail to the 
Finder. I’ve seen that some string formatting can be done with 
"defaults write com.freron.MailMate MmFilenameFormatString …"


What I want to achieve is this:

<formatted time> <subject> <[author]>.eml

Example:

141209T1848 Dont’t forget to take out the trash [John Doe].eml



For Apple’s Mail.app I get the desired result by exporting the mails 
via bash script (see below).

Can I achieve this (or something close) with MailMate’s built in 
string formatting?


The string in my bash script is built like this:

msgName="$ccd $suj [$aut]"

with…

ccd=$(mdls -name kMDItemContentCreationDate -raw "$f")
ccd=$(date -j -f '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %z' "$ccd" +"%y%m%dT%H%M")

suj=$(mdls -name kMDItemSubject -raw "$f" | head -c 80 | sed 
's/\//∕/g')

aut=$(mdls -name kMDItemAuthors -raw "$f" |
     head -n 4 | tr -ds '\n"()' ' ' |
     sed '
     s/^ //
     s/\\U[0-9a-f]\{4\}//g')


Thanks for any advice

-- 
Thomas