[MlMt] Generating a report from a smart mail box

[Robert Booth]

Hello Sherif

Your suggestion (very?) hack-y way of using the Visualizer work fine.

I followed your instructions on enabling the Visualizer.

I selected the range of messages that I needed.

Started the Visualize command.

Opened a terminal window and executed the Open command on the resulting 
csv file.

Because I have Excel as my default application for csv files. Excel made 
using the csv file contents very easy.


To make this simpler I created a shell script to open the cvs file.

cat ./bin/OpenMainMateVisualize.sh
#
#
open 
../../var/folders/ts/grmqglgs7zd1nwgy9gwznz2c0000gp/T//com.freron.MailMate.Visualize.csv

thanks a lot.

Robert

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> Message: 1
> Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2016 13:52:25 -0400
> From: "Sherif Soliman" <sherif at ssoliman.com>
> To: "MailMate Users" <mailmate at lists.freron.com>
> Subject: Re: [MlMt] Generating a report from a smart mail box
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> On 4 Oct 2016, at 11:38, Robert Booth wrote:
>
>>
>> Hello Mailmate
>>
>> I am looking for a method of listing all of the messages in a 
>> MailBox,
>> the mail box happens to be a Smart Mail box with conditions applied.
>>
>> What I need is a print out or copy the list of the mail messages, a
>> summary of the messages not the messages themselves.
>>
>> This is the combo box displaying the list of the messages, it 
>> includes
>> the new flag, flag field, From, Subject, Date Received or any other
>> fields that are selected for display.
>>
>> Note that I have searched the Mailmate list archive and have not 
>> found
>> an answer to my question.
>>
>> Is it possible to get this list in a text format?
>>
>
> There is a (very?) hack-y way of getting what you want, or almost what
> you want. It should be good enough if this is a one-off thing you need
> to do, but it won't be a good solution if you need to do this often, 
> or
> if the unread and flagged fields are critical to you.
>
> First, install the Visualize bundle (which you can do from the
> Preferences window ➝ Bundles pane).
>
> Once it's installed, go to the mailbox you want to list, disable
> Organize by Thread (otherwise messages 'nested' under the thread won't
> be included) and turn off thread arcs if they're on (to make things go
> faster).
>
> Select all messages (say, with Command-a), then click on Command menu
> ➝ Visualize ➝ Emails by time.
>
> What happens next is that MailMate will open a Safari window with some
> visualizations of the emails you selected. You're not actually
> interested in the visualizations, you're interested in the url in
> Safari. If you look at the end of the url, you'll find a path to a csv
> file that the plugin is using to make plots. For example:
>
> 	.../var/folders/0l/kq0tjm3x4sq65wlwpwz5y7gc0000gn/T//com.freron.MailMate.Visualize.csv
>
> You can open that path and find the csv file. The file has name, 
> email,
> subjectLine, mailer, and localDateTime fields information for the 
> emails
> you listed.
>
> Like I said, a hack-y way.
>
> I hope this helps. If I'm missing a much easier way of doing this, 
> then
> it would be great if someone shared it.
>
> Sherif
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