EF - Help with Importing Mail.app emails

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Hello - I have been away from EF for a few years, finally sitting down to backup a ton of emails from Mail.app.

Running into an issue - from Mail.app, i can select text within an email and EF imports that.
If however I select an email or multiple emails, EF switches from Mail.app to EF as foreground app, but no additions are made in the Records pane of EF - neither individual emails nor a mailbox folder.

From the above, it seems that both Full Disk Access and Automation are both working (as is the Keyboard/Services/Text shortcut) - but I can’t capture an entire email (or mailbox)?

In the Finder, I see some empty folders such as “To Import (eflibrary-name)” and “Temporary Items.nobackup” - that were created today.

I tried to import both non-gmail as well as gmail emails, as also some “On My Mac” locally-stored emails. No luck with any.
I tried a few tricks like creating a sub-folder in EF to import into, without luck. Can you advise what I could do?

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Are you aware that the hotkeys are different? To import selected text, you would use EagleFiler’s system service. To import e-mail messages, you would press the capture key. There’s more information about importing from Apple Mail.

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Ah, OK!! Working perfectly now :pray:

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A follow-up question before I delete these emails from Mail.app - the Mailbox containing 4,000+ individual emails are saved in EF now. The emails which contained attachments are size-wise proportionately larger than those which didn’t, so I’m assuming the attachment data is within the individual (eml?) email files.

  1. When I click on an attachment, the email and attachment open up in Mail.app. Just want to confirm that Mail.app is performing simply as a viewer/front-end/helper app here; ie., the opened email is not being imported/stored/saved inside Mail.app just by the action of clicking on it in EF?

  2. Is there some way of importing the eml file into EF so the attachment is extracted and then saved separately in a folder, yet linked to the email (in that clicking on the attachment icon in the email allows the user to preview the attachment, either within EF, or via a handler app like Preview)?

Page 52 in the user guide implies that 1. The email is not being stored in Mail.app by being opened, and 2. That attachments can be extracted by clicking on them in EF, so that EF hands the opening of the email to Mail.app (or similar), and the attachment can be extracted that way. If this is the advised procedure, I can follow it; but I am just trying to save a few steps if possible.

Thanks!