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Import Export Tools that supports Thunderbird v68-v128
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An ImportExportToolsNG Useful Scheduling option #569

Open Zero-Albion opened 3 months ago

Zero-Albion commented 3 months ago

Thank you for a valuable Thunderbird add-on. Of particular interest to me is the ability to save folder and subfolder content as .eml files and with an index.

I "keep" all my emails in my Inbox (then off-load to MailStore once a quarter.) Right now I can rt-click Inbox and choose **ImportExportToolsNG > Export all msgs in folder > EML Msg format > Msgs & Index with Subfolders to get an easily readable and not too large output. Is there a way to schedule this action once a day for an alternative backup? If not, would you consider adding this to the choices now available in the Options > Schedule choices?
Does anyone besides me find such output welcome as an alternate backup method and useful to hunt for messages deleted in error or messages whose title has been forgotten?

Keep up the good work!

cleidigh commented 2 months ago

@Zero-Albion Big apologies for the belated response, buried with updates for 128.

So I actually created a custom IETNG for a client that does a scheduled index output for multiple folders. The basics are there for something like this. I am concerned, however, with interruptions. If you were blocked while operations were happening what do you think? Because I have to do a major rewrite, I will be honest it will be a while before I can address this. @cleidigh