Allow the user to choose which service fields to save in Plain Text Format

Korb commented 1 week ago

Currently, when saving emails in Plain Text Format, a huge amount of service information is saved:

Authentication-Results
Content-Type
Delivered-To
DKIM-Signature
In-Reply-To
Message-ID
MIME-Version
Received
Received-SPF
References
Return-Path
X-Gmail-Fetch-Info
X-Google-Smtp-Source
X-Mailer
X-Mozilla-Status
X-Mozilla-Status2
X-Received
X-Yandex-FolderName
X-Yandex-Forward
X-Yandex-Front
X-Yandex-Sender-Uid
X-Yandex-Spam
X-Yandex-TimeMark
...

It makes reading saved messages much more difficult. Especially since these documents are intended for reading only, not for import. In 99% of cases, basic information is enough for me:

Attachment Status
Bcc
Date
From
Priority
Subject
To
Сс

I suggest considering the possibility of exporting technical information about letters in abbreviated form, and only the fields present in the letter. That is, for example, Bcc should not be included in the export if the corresponding field is missing in the letter, or it is empty.

cleidigh commented 6 days ago

@Korb Exporting to plaintext has always only exported Subject, From, To and date. I just checked Thunderbird v128.2.0 on Windows and that still is the case. Can you indicate os, tb and ietng versions? Definitely should not be seeing all the headers. @cleidigh

Korb commented 5 days ago

Microsoft Windows 10.0.19045.4894 Mozilla Thunderbird 128.2.0esr (64-bit) ImportExportTools NG 14.1.2 (September 14, 2024)

cleidigh commented 1 day ago

@Korb Does this happen with all messages in all folders? What does an html export look like? @cleidigh

thunderbird / import-export-tools-ng

Allow the user to choose which service fields to save in Plain Text Format #634