Hi Everyone,
New user, so I apologize if this has already been asked and answered in the manual or forum, but I didn’t find it. When I capture an mbox from Apple Mail, how I ensure that all of the remote content is also captured? For example, I have receipts with images of the products purchased. Those images are loaded remotely from the retailer’s server. Those remote images are blocked by Mail’s default privacy protections. If I temporarily disable the privacy protections and capture the mbox, the images are not in Eaglefiler and it has to load the content remotely just as Apple Mail would. My goal is to capture the messages and to have that remote content saved locally. At some point those products listings or links will be removed by the retailer and I want to maintain those images for additional context.
Thanks!
The normal EagleFiler mail import stores the content of the message itself, not resources linked from the message. Standard mail formats do not have a way to embed external resources. What you can do, for individual messages, is select the entire message content in Mail and invoke EagleFiler’s system service. This will import whatever’s currently displayed as a Web archive file (but without the normal mail metadata). You could also save the message as a PDF.
Aw, that’s disappointing, but I do appreciate the suggestions. I didn’t realize the mbox/eml format didn’t support embedding external resources. I was printing them to PDF previously, but that was space inefficient and I like the option to keep the native info. Converting a web archive is a good idea and I think should be a bit more space efficient than PDF at least. Thanks.
Just realized I misread your post. So I can only import the emails as web archives by selecting the content of the individual message one at time. As I have thousands of messages, that won’t be feasible. So saving as a PDF remains my only bulk option? Just making sure before I go back to the previous workflow.
Yes.
Yes, for PDF you can print or Save PDF to EagleFiler with multiple messages selected, and Mail will create one PDF with all the messages. Or you can use File ‣ Export as PDF to (in bulk) save one PDF per message.