[MlMt] Copying the contents of a smart folder to a zip file?

[Benny Kjær Nielsen]

On 16 May 2024, at 2:18, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:

> 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.)

There are several things affecting the behaviors described in this 
thread. I'll just quickly mention a few things:

1. Newer MailMate releases may behave differently. This is because 
MailMate would previously fail to update the creation date when saving 
messages/attachments. Instead it could in some cases be the date used to 
previously save the message in the database or a cache folder. This 
would result in a mess of dates.
2. Most commands/actions in MailMate will happen in the order of the 
internal Msg ID of the message. This value will in turn be based on when 
MailMate initially fetched the message. (It would make sense for 
MailMate to sort messages by date, but this mostly doesn't happen -- in 
particular this affects exporting to the mbox file.)
3. The latest few uploads of MailMate (since r6031) include an updated 
Export action for rules. This is very flexible and configurable. 
Ideally, something similar should be made available for direct usage 
instead of the “Copy to Folder” bundle command, but that is not 
currently the case. At the same time, this should be moved to the File 
menu where I suspect most users would be looking for it. This is on my 
ToDo.

-- 
Benny
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