That's not surprising - I've just realised that his reply was to me and not to the list ... DOH!
-----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com On Behalf Of Frank Cazabon Sent: 13 April 2022 15:40 To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: Re: Accessing/processing archived emails
Interesting, I never saw his message, it's not even in my spam (quite a few Profox emails end up in Google's spam) :(
Frank.
Frank Cazabon
On 13/04/2022 10:33 am, paul.newton.hudl@gmail.com wrote:
Frank
Vince suggested copying my old MBOX stuff into TB's default mail location ... seems to work but I am still verifying that all is OK.
Paul
-----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com On Behalf Of Frank Cazabon Sent: 13 April 2022 15:28 To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: Re: Accessing/processing archived emails
Glad you found something.
I didn't see a response from Vince. What did he suggest?
Frank.
Frank Cazabon
On 13/04/2022 10:24 am, paul.newton.hudl@gmail.com wrote:
Many thanks, Frank
It looks as if Vince's suggestion might very well work and would be the
ideal solution.
Paul
-----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com On Behalf Of Frank Cazabon Sent: 11 April 2022 23:19 To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: Re: Accessing/processing archived emails
Hi Paul,
A quick search gave me these but I've never used them:
https://www.bitrecover.com/blog/view-thunderbird-msf-files/
https://sysc.org/open-mbox-file-format/
11 Apr 2022 18:03:11 paul.newton.hudl@gmail.com:
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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