TB - Sort add-on

[Mark Rousell]

On 06/07/2015 17:53, jd1008 wrote:
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> On 07/06/2015 04:11 AM, Mark Rousell wrote:
>> On 05/07/2015 04:10, jd1008 wrote:
>>> Looked for an add-on that will sort a folder by date (not for display
>>> purposes)
>>> but to physically re-organize a floder's messages so that they are
>>> sorted from oldest
>>> to most recent.
>>>
>>> Any info on that?
>> You might be able to do what you want using the ImportExportTools
>> extension: https://freeshell.de/~kaosmos/mboximport-en.html
>>
>> This extension lets you export all messages in a folder to individual
>> files. The filenames are customisable with time and date prefixes.
>>
>> Having exported all the messages, you might well then be able to
>> re-import using the same tool to import in time and date order (i.e.
>> alphabetical order in the directory).
>>
>> I've not tried doing this but it looks like it *should* work.
>>
> That's awesome. I will certainly try it!!
> But if it does not work, then Cameron's (and others)
> suggestion to use mutt cli mail client might be the way to go.

Good luck. Hope it works as you need.

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