Hi There, I wanted to experiment with importing emails and MBOX files into EF from MailMaven. I have noticed that the tags/keywords/outlookcategories are not being imported. I have checked the MBOX file and the keywords are all being exported ok so I am suspecting it might be an EF fix needed?
The documentation for importing from MailMaven is here. I am not seeing any metadata in the mbox files exported by MailMaven 1.0.1 (build 7311). Could you tell me which version you’re using and show an example of what you see in the file?
HI Michael, Thanks for your reply. I had found and followed your EF documentation, so that is all good. I exported an MBOX file based on a Smart Mailbox using MailMaven 1.0.1 (build 7311).
As I understand it, categories/tags are mapped to Keywords in MailMaven. In the MBOX file, there is a metadata line called “Keywords:” and this seems to have the tags listed (comma-separated if more than one). I have attached an excerpt below
My thinking was that these would map to tags in EF, hence my suggestion a fix might be needed?
I am happy to send you the full MBOX file if that is useful.
None of the messages that I export from MailMaven have a Keywords: header in the mbox file. I think this may be something that was added by your mail server.
Ok, I have played around some more. It looks like what I did to get that MBOX with the Keywords: header was to extract the MBOX file from the Tags list in the left hand pane. It works whether you select a specific tag/keyword from this list or select the “Keywords” heading.
Is this something you would consider adding to EF so that the tags are coming in?
Export Mailbox is not exporting keywords for me when I have Keywords or one of the specific keywords selected, either. I really think MailMaven is just saving the message data that it received from the server, which for some reason has that header for some of your messages.
I’m open to indexing that header for search, but I’m reluctant to import tags from it if it doesn’t actually match what’s shown in MailMaven or other clients.
I can see your point.
Some semantics in there though, since MailMaven still calls this “extract mailbox” and it’s really just a form of filter that one would use anyway to extract a selection of emails into EF.
My use case here is that I am trying to migrate away from Outlook. MailMaven has become my main email program, and the Keywords/Tags I still need to follow the emails into EF. I guess in an ideal world, there would be another way to keep all this data and save into EF from MailMaven.
Thanks for your replies/help as always.
Where are you seeing “extract mailbox” in the user interface?
If you’re using (or can use) Legacy Outlook, you can use the EagleFiler capture key from within Outlook, and it will import the messages and their categories.
Where are you seeing “extract mailbox” in the user interface?
screenshot attached of this from the Tags left hand pane in MailMaven.
If you’re using (or can use) Legacy Outlook, you can use the EagleFiler capture key from within Outlook, and it will import the messages and their categories.
Yep, I use this currently. I don’t want to use Outlook, though, as I prefer MailMaven. Since it has tags/keywords, and if this was captured in an export then I could!
Ah, that says Export like on my Mac. Since you had written Extract, I thought you were referring to something else.
The MailMaven developers are very responsive. I recommend asking them to add export support (maybe some X-MailMaven- headers), and then I can teach EagleFiler how to read them.