Comments on: Export Apple Mail Messages and Notes to Text Files

By: Danny

Danny — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 06:31:20 +0000

You just saved me about an hour. Thank you.

By: Justin

Justin — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 07:28:35 +0000

It wouldn't be that hard, but I am in the middle of a big trip myself right now, so I'm not sure when I'd be able to add it. Check back here or subscribe to the Twitter feed for updates and I'll post a notice when I revise it!

By: lydia

lydia — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 23:46:04 +0000

for me, it would be useful to have basic messages headers placed at the top of each txt file. would love to see at least “From:”, “Subject:”, and “Date:”. would that be easy to add if i knew what i was doing?

(i am about to take off on a big trip, am trying to create an archive of the relevant mail folder, don’t really have time to delve into learning applescript just now.)

By: Justin

Justin — Sun, 23 May 2010 02:09:43 +0000

The Growl issue must be a bug — it’s supposed to detect whether or not you have it installed and adjust. Click here to file a bug report so that I don’t lose track of it and, when I’m working on a new revision, I’ll spend some time on this!

A question: How would you want the original dates presented? As a header at the top of the note?

By: D

Mon, 17 May 2010 09:19:34 +0000

Thanks for putting this together. Two things: 1) Can I have the original dates exported with the notes? 2) The script fails because it requires Growl which I don’t have installed (I don’t really have a need for Growl). Do you have a version of the script that doesn’t need Growl?

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By: ukmac (Scott Paterson )

ukmac (Scott Paterson ) — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 22:02:33 +0000

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Thanks to @veritrope for knocking up AppleScript to export Notes to text files from Mail.app [link to post]

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