Re: TB - Sort add-on

2015-07-06 Thread Mark Rousell
On 06/07/2015 17:53, jd1008 wrote: > > > 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 o

Re: TB - Sort add-on

2015-07-06 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 07/06/2015 03:39 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote: Oh. When did that happen? (I see it is not exposed by default.) As far as I know, it's been there a while. That page says it wasn't ready for testing prior to release 38, though I don't recall having seen such "not ready for testing" statements

Re: TB - Sort add-on

2015-07-06 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 06Jul2015 14:20, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 07/06/2015 02:11 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote: I'm still amazed that TB doesn't let you use Maildirs; they're hardly difficult. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/maildir-thunderbird Oh. When did that happen? (I see it is not exposed by default.)

Re: TB - Sort add-on

2015-07-06 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 07/06/2015 02:11 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote: I'm still amazed that TB doesn't let you use Maildirs; they're hardly difficult. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/maildir-thunderbird -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://a

Re: TB - Sort add-on

2015-07-06 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 06Jul2015 10:18, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 07/06/2015 09:46 AM, jd1008 wrote: Add to this is that the entire mozilla libraries are still using 32 bit file size limits! Just tried it by catenating many folders into a single folder exceeding 4GB (11.8 GB, to be exact). Yes, and Maildir is the

Re: TB - Sort add-on

2015-07-06 Thread g
On 07/06/15 12:03, jd1008 wrote: <<>> > Right. The line: > Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 07:30:42 -0700 > > is the more exact one for chronological sorting. most true. if one uses the "From - ", they would not be in same order if one uses the "Date: " line. mutt is the way to go to get your sort. n

Re: TB - Sort add-on

2015-07-06 Thread g
On 07/06/15 12:06, jd1008 wrote: <<>> > These guys are really doped :) very true. i wonder where they get their 'green'. ;-) -- peace out. -+- If Bill Gates got a dime for every time Windows crashes... ...oh, wait. He does. THAT explains it! -+- in a world with out fences, who needs gates

Re: TB - Sort add-on

2015-07-06 Thread jd1008
On 07/06/2015 11:18 AM, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 07/06/2015 09:46 AM, jd1008 wrote: Add to this is that the entire mozilla libraries are still using 32 bit file size limits! Just tried it by catenating many folders into a single folder exceeding 4GB (11.8 GB, to be exact). Yes, and Maildir

Re: TB - Sort add-on

2015-07-06 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 07/06/2015 09:46 AM, jd1008 wrote: Add to this is that the entire mozilla libraries are still using 32 bit file size limits! Just tried it by catenating many folders into a single folder exceeding 4GB (11.8 GB, to be exact). Yes, and Maildir is the intended solution to that limit, because

Re: TB - Sort add-on

2015-07-06 Thread jd1008
On 07/06/2015 10:59 AM, g wrote: On 07/06/15 11:46, jd1008 wrote: <<>> Add to this is that the entire mozilla libraries are still using 32 bit file size limits! Just tried it by catenating many folders into a single folder exceeding 4GB (11.8 GB, to be exact). I then tried to move a message

Re: TB - Sort add-on

2015-07-06 Thread jd1008
On 07/06/2015 10:49 AM, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 07/06/2015 09:26 AM, jd1008 wrote: One of the difficulties of using either a script or a C/++ prog to sort the messages is the following: ... That shouldn't be a problem at all. A new message is marked by a line that starts with "From ", an

Re: TB - Sort add-on

2015-07-06 Thread g
On 07/06/15 11:46, jd1008 wrote: <<>> > Add to this is that the entire mozilla libraries are still > using 32 bit file size limits! > Just tried it by catenating many folders into a single folder > exceeding 4GB (11.8 GB, to be exact). > I then tried to move a message into the huge folder. > It

Re: TB - Sort add-on

2015-07-06 Thread jd1008
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

Re: TB - Sort add-on

2015-07-06 Thread g
On 07/06/15 02:53, Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 06Jul2015 01:22, g wrote: <<<>>> >> it does seem that is attitude of thunderbird devs because if one sorts >> emails chronologically then moves or copies to new folder file, emails >> will maintain order they were in original folder file. > > Inco

Re: TB - Sort add-on

2015-07-06 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 07/06/2015 09:26 AM, jd1008 wrote: One of the difficulties of using either a script or a C/++ prog to sort the messages is the following: ... That shouldn't be a problem at all. A new message is marked by a line that starts with "From ", and everything after the '-' can be parsed with th

Re: TB - Sort add-on

2015-07-06 Thread jd1008
On 07/06/2015 12:22 AM, g wrote: On 07/06/15 00:21, Cameron Simpson wrote: <<>> He basicly needs to take his messages and append them to a new inbox in date order. He can either write a small program to suck messages into memory, sort them, then write them out, or find a mail client which wi

Re: TB - Sort add-on

2015-07-06 Thread jd1008
On 07/05/2015 11:21 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote: On 05Jul2015 21:50, patrick o'callaghan wrote: On Sun, 2015-07-05 at 12:30 -0600, jd1008 wrote: Too tedious 'cause there are over 100K emails :) Take a look at formail, part of the procmail package. It might be able to do what you want, or at

Re: TB - Sort add-on

2015-07-06 Thread Mark Rousell
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 I

Re: TB - Sort add-on

2015-07-06 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2015-07-06 at 15:21 +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote: > >Take a look at formail, part of the procmail package. It might be > able > >to do what you want, or at least be part of the solution. > > I suspect not because it only considers one message at a time. Sure, but splitting the mbox into

Re: TB - Sort add-on

2015-07-06 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 06Jul2015 01:22, g wrote: On 07/06/15 00:21, Cameron Simpson wrote: He basicly needs to take his messages and append them to a new inbox in date order. He can either write a small program to suck messages into memory, sort them, then write them out, or find a mail client which will let him s

Re: TB - Sort add-on

2015-07-05 Thread g
On 07/06/15 00:21, Cameron Simpson wrote: <<>> > He basicly needs to take his messages and append them to a new inbox in > date order. He can either write a small program to suck messages into > memory, sort them, then write them out, or find a mail client which will > let him sort the view by d

Re: TB - Sort add-on

2015-07-05 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 05Jul2015 21:50, patrick o'callaghan wrote: On Sun, 2015-07-05 at 12:30 -0600, jd1008 wrote: Too tedious 'cause there are over 100K emails :) Take a look at formail, part of the procmail package. It might be able to do what you want, or at least be part of the solution. I suspect not bec

Re: TB - Sort add-on

2015-07-05 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 05Jul2015 11:21, jd1008 wrote: Remember to take a backup first! (Just copy your whole TB folder directory in case of accidents.) Finally, _why_ do you want the TB folder in date order, physically? What is the objective here? Reason is that I used to have accounts from many other email ser

Re: TB - Sort add-on

2015-07-05 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2015-07-05 at 12:30 -0600, jd1008 wrote: > Too tedious 'cause there are over 100K emails :) Take a look at formail, part of the procmail package. It might be able to do what you want, or at least be part of the solution. poc -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscr

Re: TB - Sort add-on

2015-07-05 Thread g
On 07/05/15 13:30, jd1008 wrote: > On 07/05/2015 12:27 PM, g wrote: <<<>>> >> a tedious process, but i did end up with emails in a true physical >> chronological order. <<>> >> sounds simple, but it is involved. >> >> > Too tedious 'cause there are over 100K emails :) . learn c/c++ and write a

Re: TB - Sort add-on

2015-07-05 Thread jd1008
On 07/05/2015 12:27 PM, g wrote: On 07/05/15 12:22, jd1008 wrote: On 07/04/2015 10:02 PM, g wrote: On 07/04/15 22:10, 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

Re: TB - Sort add-on

2015-07-05 Thread g
On 07/05/15 12:22, jd1008 wrote: > On 07/04/2015 10:02 PM, g wrote: >> On 07/04/15 22:10, 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

Re: TB - Sort add-on

2015-07-05 Thread jd1008
On 07/04/2015 10:02 PM, g wrote: On 07/04/15 22:10, 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? . that ability is already

Re: TB - Sort add-on

2015-07-05 Thread jd1008
On 07/04/2015 10:00 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote: On 04Jul2015 21:10, 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? Not off

Re: TB - Sort add-on

2015-07-05 Thread g
On 07/05/15 02:42, j.halif...@seznam.cz wrote: > Sorry, I didn't know that it concerned to emails in the thunderbird. . not a problem here. :-) -- peace out. -+- If Bill Gates got a dime for every time Windows crashes... ...oh, wait. He does. THAT explains it! -+- in a world with out fences

Re: TB - Sort add-on

2015-07-05 Thread j.halifax2
Sorry, I didn't know that it concerned to emails in the thunderbird. -- Původní zpráva -- Od: g Komu: users@lists.fedoraproject.org Datum: 5. 7. 2015 10:14:06 Předmět: Re: TB - Sort add-on "On 07/05/15 01:27, j.halif...@seznam.cz wrote: > You can e.g. use "

Re: TB - Sort add-on

2015-07-05 Thread g
On 07/05/15 01:27, j.halif...@seznam.cz wrote: > You can e.g. use "ls" and "mv" shell commands to move the old > directory ("folder") content in the new one in the desired order.. uh... what??? in following, i am defining containers by their names as used in both thunderbird and as viewed with

Re: TB - Sort add-on

2015-07-04 Thread j.halifax2
You can e.g. use "ls" and "mv" shell commands to move the old directory ( "folder") content in the new one in the desired order..  -- Původní zpráva -- Od: g Komu: Community support for Fedora users Datum: 5. 7. 2015 7:03:07 Předmět: Re: TB - S

Re: TB - Sort add-on

2015-07-04 Thread g
On 07/04/15 23:00, Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 04Jul2015 21:10, 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 t

Re: TB - Sort add-on

2015-07-04 Thread g
On 07/04/15 22:10, 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? . that ability is already available with;

Re: TB - Sort add-on

2015-07-04 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 04Jul2015 21:10, 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? Not offhand, but had you considered using external tools?

TB - Sort add-on

2015-07-04 Thread jd1008
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? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription opti