den4b Forum

For some reason most bulk file renaming products do not support email metadata tags.

ReNamer stands out from the crowd in supporting both .eml and .msg metadata.

This is a suggestion to enhance ReNamer support for email metadata to make it even better.

In any email you have the following metadata:

Sender Name – e.g. John Smith (the sender does not have to specify a name so this may be absent)
Sender Email Address – e.g. jsmith@gmail.com (this will always be present)

Recipient Name – e.g. Jane Jones (the sender doe snot have to specify a name so this may be absent)
Recipient Email Address – e.g. jjones@gmail.com (this will always be present)

Of course there can be more than one recipient so there would be Recipient Name/Email Address pairs for each recipient.

Suggested enhanced support for .eml

At the moment, Renamer supports these metadata tags for .eml

Email_DateSent
Email_Subject
Email_Sender

The tag Email_Sender uses this format “John Smith” <jsmith@gmail.com>   
Or this format  <jsmith@gmail.com>  if there is no Sender Name

My suggestion to enhance Renamer support for .eml tags would be to add four new tags:

Email_Sender_Address    which would contain e.g. jsmith@gmail.com
Email_Sender_Name          which would contain e.g. John Smith
Email_Recipient_Address    which would contain e.g. jjones@gmail.com; pbloggs@gmail.com
Email_Recipient_Name    which would contain e.g. John Smith; Peter Bloggs

Sender Name may be absent in some emails and, in that case, I would suggest that the sender email address should be used instead in Email_Sender_Name

Likewise one or more recipient names may be absent in which case I would suggest that, where the name is missing, the recipient email address should be used instead in Email_Recipient_Name

Suggested enhanced support for .msg

At the moment, Renamer supports these metadata tags for .msg

Outlook_DateSent
Outlook_Subject
Outlook_Sender

The tag Outlook_Sender uses this format jsmith@gmail.com   

My suggestion to enhance Renamer support for .msg tags would be to add four new tags:

Outlook_Sender_Address            which would contain e.g. jsmith@gmail.com
Outlook_Sender_Name            which would contain e.g. John Smith
Outlook_Recipient_Address            which would contain e.g. jjones@gmail.com; pbloggs@gmail.com
Outlook_Recipient_Name          which would contain e.g. John Smith; Peter Bloggs

Sender Name may be absent in some emails and, in that case, I would suggest that the sender email address should be used instead in Outlook_Sender_Name

Likewise one or more recipient names may be absent in which case I would suggest that, where the name is missing, the recipient email address should be used instead in Outlook_Recipient_Name