Export Issues and Documentation

[aescgar]

There are two main issues I'm having with the export feature (but super grateful for the feature being implemented - well on the right track!)

1. Folder identification: When exporting emails, all emails are dumped into a single list. I do not see a way to determine which emails are from which folder. For instance, if I want to see all my emails from the "Sent" folder or filtered into my "Newsletters" folder, I don't see a way. The filename structure doesn't make sense to me. I see the date/time stamp, but I'm not sure if the "----3-2-" part has something to do with what folder it is in. Clarity on how the file names are generated is needed. Also, maybe the export should group the emails into folders.

2. In the original GitHub issue @1292, it was indicated that we should have a way to export all emails since the most recent export or since a certain date to prevent having to export all emails since the beginning of the account each time. Currently, it takes far too long when I just need to add the last month and not the last several years. Also, if I do an export, then delete a lot of old emails, then do a new export, neither export contains all my emails, but there is no way to quickly know which export has which dates. Since there is a lot of overlap, I can't just combine all the EML files into the same folder and have an up-to-date total backup like I could if the backup allowed just doing since a certain date.

[charlag]

Hi, thank you for the good feedback. I did convert this into an issue since it's technically not a bug.

1. We would like to add more information to emails in the future. Some other email providers add a file with additional info, e.g. labels. However most do not represent the mail folder structure as filesystem folder structure. The last part of the filename is the mail id and it is used mostly to disambiguate emails with the same subject and date.
2. Thank you, it makes sense for backups, we will consider it.

[besendorf]

1. I think it would make most sense to just store the .eml files in folders corresponding to the foldern in the mailbox. Especially having Sent emails stored separetly would really be good.