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Thunderbird Add-on: quickFilters
http://quickfilters.quickfolders.org/
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Req: Attachment Extraction using dynamic paths #216

Open MichiFr opened 8 months ago

MichiFr commented 8 months ago

Hi Axel!

Maybe a feature request, maybe already possible beyond my knowledge ;-) quickFilters and/or FiltaQuilla both have one or two filter actions to extract attachments into a user defined folder.

Is it possible to have some placeholders in the folder path to get dynamic paths? Like H:\attachments\%year%\ or H:\attachments\%year%\%month%\ and similar date variables?

Thanks, Michael

RealRaven2000 commented 8 months ago

Hi Alex!

Maybe a feature request, maybe already possible beyond my knowledge ;-) quickFilters and/or FiltaQuilla both have one or two filter actions to extract attachments into a user defined folder.

Is it possible to have some placeholders in the folder path to get dynamic paths? Like H:\attachments%year%\ or H:\attachments%year%%month%\ and similar date variables?

no, anything with dynamic folder names is difficult to do because it requires asynchronous actions. Filter actions only support synchronous functions, by design.

MichiFr commented 8 months ago

Ok, understood and makes sense of course, assuming that the rule creates the appropriate (dynamic) folder, correct?

However, I do not want the folder to be created automatically. The folder already exists, created manually. My intention is to not modify the filter each year or month and insert the current date.

Similar using custom variables in this picture from your website. image