Hi,
Eudora has an interesting technique of saving "embedded graphics" pictures and "attachments" (pictures, PDF, etc) in their own folders, and keeping the actual mail in a rather simple form in an .mbx file .. pointing to the two folders when necessary. Architecturally, it makes some sense, although I think most mailers keep the pictures (in long string mode) inside the .mbx file. This is one of the things addressed by conversion and import-export programs.
Now, I have a huge folder, mostly with lots of worthless .jpg, with my Eudora, going back many years, including all sorts of email forum nothings.
However, about 1% of those (maybe 1000 .jpg) are related to a group of specific emails that I want to archive properly and separately. (Largely corroborative research, using .jpg made by Abbyy Screenshot reader of google and other book text online.)
So I want to read the actual mail of those limited folders with emails to be archived, find the lines like this:
Content-Disposition: inline; filename="file name.jpg
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="int_1.jpg"
(There may be one more for something like hybrid or multi-part.)
And then copy or move all the matching file names into their own special folders.
And I don't mind learning a script language to do this.
What is my tool of choice ?
Autohotkey ? AutoIt ? Something else ?
Your expertise and thoughts appreciated.
Steven
Eudora has an interesting technique of saving "embedded graphics" pictures and "attachments" (pictures, PDF, etc) in their own folders, and keeping the actual mail in a rather simple form in an .mbx file .. pointing to the two folders when necessary. Architecturally, it makes some sense, although I think most mailers keep the pictures (in long string mode) inside the .mbx file. This is one of the things addressed by conversion and import-export programs.
Now, I have a huge folder, mostly with lots of worthless .jpg, with my Eudora, going back many years, including all sorts of email forum nothings.
However, about 1% of those (maybe 1000 .jpg) are related to a group of specific emails that I want to archive properly and separately. (Largely corroborative research, using .jpg made by Abbyy Screenshot reader of google and other book text online.)
So I want to read the actual mail of those limited folders with emails to be archived, find the lines like this:
Content-Disposition: inline; filename="file name.jpg
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="int_1.jpg"
(There may be one more for something like hybrid or multi-part.)
And then copy or move all the matching file names into their own special folders.
And I don't mind learning a script language to do this.
What is my tool of choice ?
Autohotkey ? AutoIt ? Something else ?
Your expertise and thoughts appreciated.
Steven
