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Martha Adams

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Dec 23, 2010, 1:06:48 PM12/23/10
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Back when I was using the very good pre-'userfriendly' trn (in a unix
environment, not Windows) I could easily save an entire thread if I
needed that. Today I'm in ...Widows, I mean Windows, and using Opera
(currently 11.0). I've been looking in previous versions and now in
11.0, and I can't find anywhere a simple resource to save a thread
into any kind of a file. I'd particularly like to save threads into
a plain ascii file since then it's most accessible to emacs for a
cleanup.

Is there some resource hidden away somewhere in this Opera to save
threads into unadulterated plain usable ascii text files?

If there isn't, it needs it.

Thanks -- Martha Adams [2010 Dec 23]

Remco Lanting

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Dec 24, 2010, 5:31:47 AM12/24/10
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Create a new label, put all messages from the thread into the label, right
click label, export.

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Martha Adams

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Dec 24, 2010, 9:44:04 PM12/24/10
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On Fri, 24 Dec 2010 10:31:47 -0000, Remco Lanting
<remco....@no.spam.at.gmail.com.please> wrote:

> On Thu, 23 Dec 2010 19:06:48 +0100, Martha Adams <mh...@verizon.net>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> Back when I was using the very good pre-'userfriendly' trn (in a unix
>> environment, not Windows) I could easily save an entire thread if I
>> needed that. Today I'm in ...Widows, I mean Windows, and using Opera
>> (currently 11.0). I've been looking in previous versions and now in
>> 11.0, and I can't find anywhere a simple resource to save a thread
>> into any kind of a file. I'd particularly like to save threads into
>> a plain ascii file since then it's most accessible to emacs for a
>> cleanup.
>>
>> Is there some resource hidden away somewhere in this Opera to save
>> threads into unadulterated plain usable ascii text files?
>
> Create a new label, put all messages from the thread into the label,
> right click label, export.

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That looks doable, if I knew how. How do I do that?

Thanks -- Martha Adams

Remco Lanting

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Dec 25, 2010, 4:34:54 PM12/25/10
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In the mail panel, right click the labels header. Pick 'New label'. It
will be created and the standard name will be focused so you can type in a
new name. After that, select the messages you want to put in there and:

- either right click the selection -> label -> your just created label
- or drag them to the label in the panel

After that, click on the label in the panel so you get a view of all
messages in the label. If it's right, right click on the label and pick
export. Opera exports the label as an .mbs file, which is plain text.

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