[MlMt] Copying a message

[Bill Cole]

On 27 Oct 2018, at 20:10, Scott A. McIntyre wrote:

> Since MailMate doesn't have a way to export email to a standard format

Umm... I don't believe that to be true.

Drag & drop into the Finder creates a plain text file for each message 
with a .eml extension which adheres to  RFC822 email message format. The 
file naming is a mess, but it works.

The "Export" bundle (Command->Export) can save one or more messages to a 
specified folder as the same sort of ".eml" file with less sketchy 
naming or as a ".mbox" file which is a Unix mailbox file: essentially a 
series of plain text RFC822 messages delimited by lines containing 
'From' the sender address, and the delivery time, with those fields 
delimited by a space.

These are standard formats. They are *plain text* formats. Most mail 
client software with any import capability will understand them both. 
Most mail server software has some form of support for both, either for 
transport or for delivered messages.


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