I remember a Thunderbird discussion on here a Good WHILE ago - I may
have been the instigator. I do remember someone saying that the email
data for Thunderbird was actually something like SQL Lite. Again - this
is purely based upon memory - and, old people like me - well, we have
Memory leakages...
Have you tried doing a search of ProFox archives for the word
Thunderbird? IF so - you might potentially get a Hit!
-Kurt
On 4/11/2022 3:02 PM, paul.newton.h...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all
I have several (Windows Explorer) folders containing archived TB
(Thunderbird) emails which I want to review and clean up (i.e. get rid of
for good). These folders have an SBD extension and these correspond to TB's
folders. They contain files with no extension (these contain the actual
emails) and which I believe are "MBOX" files. They also contain files with
an MSF extension which apparently contain summaries of the MBOX contents.
One possible approach might be to set up TB or another email client which
works with MBOX type files. I made a first attempt at this with TB but got
stuck at the stage where it wants details of incoming and outgoing server
accounts (I don't want to set up an account).
Another approach might be to export all the MBOX messages as individual EML
files. Here any recommendations for free/cheap solutions without
limitations would be helpful - I have used Thunderstor in the past but now
can only find a trial version with no means to upgrade.
The idea then would be to use VFP to parse the EML files for subject,
sender, recipient, date and content as well as to decode and save any
attachments.
Any ideas or suggestions regarding either approach (or a different approach)
will be most welcome. In particular, I would not want to reinvent the wheel
regarding the parsing of the EMLs - so if anybody knows of any tools or
existing code that could be helpful .
Many thanks, and apologies for the length of the message
Paul Newton
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