[nmglug] printing emails

[BrianO'Keefe]

Thanks Jason. I'll see if I can find all the folders and sub folders and 
keep them discreet. I don;t want all my mail copied.

On 09/02/2010 08:17 PM, Jason Schaefer wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 7:44 PM, BrianO'Keefe<okeefe at cybermesa.com>  wrote:
>    
>> I have several hundred emails relevant to a project that I would like to
>> print. I want to be able to hand a disc to another person that has all of
>> the emails that they can then open on OS X and print out. I am running
>> Ubuntu 9.10 and Thunderbird. Is there some sort of file type or archive that
>> I can make that will work>
>>
>>      
> Hey Brian
>
> You can create a folder from within thunderbird, copy or move all the
> messages into it. And then send your friend the corresponding file in
> your .thunderbird profile directory. For instance, if you made a
> folder called "emails-for-friend" it would be a similar path to this
> ~/.thunderbird/asdf345.default/ImapMail/server/emails-for-friend (not
> the .msf). It will be a plain text file that has all the emails you
> placed into it...
> Be aware, it will include the mime attachment text. This will waste
> lots of paper if your messages have attachments. Otherwise, I imagine
> you could probably copy the files (emails-for-friend and
> emails-for-friend.msf) onto his thunderbird profile and they would
> show up..
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