Tom, thanks for the lead. Here's a brute force solution it led to:
1. Copied a file to the "Local Folders" folder somewhere under
...\Application Data\Thunderbird\Profiles\... .
2. Tried deleting the file extension or changing it to mbox. Each way
worked when I tested it.
3. Started Thunderbird. Went to the local folder that just appeared.
Voila!
Thunderbird builds the msf file it uses. It turns out that the untyped
files in the above folder are in mbox format (as far as I can tell). In
the past, I've backed up some Local Folder folders just by copying the
corresponding file. Now I know I can use this for the extracts as
well. This will be very helpful and save me lots of time and effort.
Who knew? Thanks again.
-Andy
Tom Piwowar wrote:
This is very timely. I'd like to expand (don't want to use that other
"ex" word) some email archive files that are open and available to the
public. These files are from some public mailing lists, they are text
files (generally one file per month's worth of traffic), and they often
are named "<something>.mail". The purpose is to extract and organize
messages having certain specific threads/subjects.
It would be great if I could open/import/convert such a file and use an
email client to see it as a folder or mailbox of individual messages.
Saving a file of a useful subset of extracted messages would be nice,
too.
Any suggestions? Maybe it's as simple as changing the file extension
and using the right client?
Good chance that these are in "mailbox" format. You can Google that and
examine the files to see if they look like that. Unfortunately there are
different flavors of mailbox format and different programs handle
different flavors. Thunderbird and Eudora should handle some of them. You
can find converter scripts on the Web.
/snip/
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