There's been some recent talk about DevonThink and I'm giving it a go, but – despite having looked at the DevonThink manual, done some quick web searches, and looked for extensions – I can't seem to find a decent way to really integrate with Thunderbird. What I'd like to do is to send individual messages to DT as I'm reading them in TB. Suggestions?
Integrating DevonThink and Thunderbird
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Wally Grotophorst
MemberBest AnswerDEVONthink Pro Office has a plugin that enables import of messages or complete mailboxes--Apple Mail, Unix mbox format (e.g., Thunderbird) or Entourage--preserving formatting and keeping the attachments intact. I use this method to archive all my old mail and sent messages (trying to have no more than about 6 weeks of mail in my email client). The full-text searching and AI on retrieval means I can quickly go thru thousands of emails to get the one I'm trying to find. Works really well. But you say you just want to move selected messages from Thunderbird...
While there's a plugin included for Apple Mail that puts an "add to Devonthink" menu option right in the email client, it's not so clean with other email clients. But it is possible.
Here's one way to get an email into DevonThink from Thunderbird--save the message as an .eml file and put that into DEVONthink. How?
1) While in Thunderbird, as you're reading an email you want to keep, press COMMAND-S (or select File...Save As...File from the main menu).
2) Select the DEVONthink Inbox as your save destination.Once you've saved the first message into the DEVONthink inbox, that will be the default destination for subsequent messages during that email session.
From the DEVONthink inbox you can then move messages to the appropriate database(s).
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