EssentialPIM

Hello and happy new year everyone.

I'm looking into purchasing EPIM Pro in the near future for my personal organizational needs, and it seems like a very capable solution, but I have a few questions before I do.

TL,DR: Is there any way to customize the resulting file name of a dragged email from EPIM to the file system?

If I drag an email from my inbox to any file manager a new EML file is created and named after the email subject plus an EML extension say: "Welcome to EssentialPIM.eml".

Thunderbird behaves the same way, which is less then ideal when trying to archive a long conversation thread to filesystem (all messages have the same name which is not helpful), but outlook for example saves with a much more helpful date+sender+subject format like "2020_01_08_Sender_Subject.eml".
It both helps with sorting (starts with an inverted date) plus identifies the sender which is quicker to search for.

Is there any way or setting in EPIM I can tweak to configure the resulting filename? I haven't found anything in the options dialog.
If not is this a feature request you would consider worthy of the development time?

Thanks

Hello,

you can manually change the name of EML file when saving one by one. There is no such feature to bulk- rename when exporting into EML files in bulk (same when dragging emails).
We can consider it a feature request, however, it is the first of this kind, to my knowledge.

I feared as much. I already have a renaming solution I currently use with Thunderbird, I would have to keep using it then.

Thanks for considering it, though it is obviously low priority.
Keep up the great work, cheers!

If anyone is facing a similar issue, for the record, I've been happily renaming EML files with ReNemer .

You can setup pre defined renaming profiles with your desired rules, including cleanup routines to remove unwanted or illegal characters.
It supports command line parameters, using those I have integrated it into my file manager so it is available on right click.