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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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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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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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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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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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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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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LOL
Frank.
Frank Cazabon
On 13/04/2022 10:43 am, paul.newton.hudl@gmail.com wrote:
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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On 04/13/22 10:43 AM, paul.newton.hudl@gmail.com wrote:
That's not surprising - I've just realised that his reply was to me and not to the list ... DOH!
Sorry, it was supposed to have been to the list! :-)
Frank, here's my original reply:
Paul, if I understand you correctly, you're making this more difficult than you need to. I do this all the time.
Simply set up T-bird (You don't need to even set up the fetch/put mail) let it create the inbox, shut it down, move the old mbx/etc files into the inbox folder, and restart thunderbird. It will see the folders and emails within them, and from there it's pretty simple to sort/filter delete.
Let me know if you need more details or want to talk.
On Apr 11, 2022, at 17:02, paul.newton.hudl@gmail.com wrote:
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 .
Here's an example using Python and its built-in `mailbox` library: https://python-forum.io/thread-16787.html
-- Ed Leafe
Thanks, Ed
-----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com On Behalf Of Ed Leafe Sent: 11 April 2022 23:22 To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: Re: Accessing/processing archived emails
On Apr 11, 2022, at 17:02, paul.newton.hudl@gmail.com wrote:
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 .
Here's an example using Python and its built-in `mailbox` library: https://python-forum.io/thread-16787.html
-- Ed Leafe
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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.hudl@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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Thanks for your reply and suggestion, Kurt.
Searching for "thunderbird" in the ProFox archive returns 894 matches! However I did find one useful thing for starters - an e-Mail client (eM Client) with which I was able to import all the MBOX messages.
Paul Newton
-----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com On Behalf Of Kurt @ Gmail Sent: 12 April 2022 00:21 To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: Re: Accessing/processing archived emails
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.hudl@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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You're quite welcome Paul!
And, wow - 894 hits on the ProFox search is a LOT!
Interesting find on the eMClient. Can you pass us some info on it here. As I may want to take a lookat that myself and try it - since I also use Thunderbird. And, actually have a couple outstanding issues with access of some emails and folder.
Thanks! -K
On 4/12/2022 2:11 PM, paul.newton.hudl@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks for your reply and suggestion, Kurt.
Searching for "thunderbird" in the ProFox archive returns 894 matches! However I did find one useful thing for starters - an e-Mail client (eM Client) with which I was able to import all the MBOX messages.
Paul Newton
-----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com On Behalf Of Kurt @ Gmail Sent: 12 April 2022 00:21 To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: Re: Accessing/processing archived emails
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.hudl@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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Kurt
I don't really have anything to pass on in the way of info - I just Googled "em Client" and Google came up with About 2,760,000,000 results (0.49 seconds) Thankfully the first result takes you straight to their website where you can download it. I haven't yet looked at it other than as described in my previous message.
Paul
-----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com On Behalf Of Kurt @ Gmail Sent: 12 April 2022 22:21 To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: Re: Accessing/processing archived emails
You're quite welcome Paul!
And, wow - 894 hits on the ProFox search is a LOT!
Interesting find on the eMClient. Can you pass us some info on it here. As I may want to take a lookat that myself and try it - since I also use Thunderbird. And, actually have a couple outstanding issues with access of some emails and folder.
Thanks! -K
On 4/12/2022 2:11 PM, paul.newton.hudl@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks for your reply and suggestion, Kurt.
Searching for "thunderbird" in the ProFox archive returns 894 matches! However I did find one useful thing for starters - an e-Mail client (eM Client) with which I was able to import all the MBOX messages.
Paul Newton
-----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com On Behalf Of Kurt @ Gmail Sent: 12 April 2022 00:21 To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: Re: Accessing/processing archived emails
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.hudl@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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Hey Paul - OK, no worries. Got it.
On the website - does it stated whether it's a free or paid type of tool? And, once you do try it out - I'd be curious to know what you think about it - and if it does what you need done.
Oddly - I still to this day get strange looks from people when I mention Thunderbird. As I've been using it since nearly its original inception - which I THINK when Mozilla was 1st released or shortly there after. I've enjoyed using Thunderbird - and I am surprised that I almost NEVER Come across anyone that uses Thunderbird!!!
-Kurt
On 4/12/2022 2:27 PM, paul.newton.hudl@gmail.com wrote:
Kurt
I don't really have anything to pass on in the way of info - I just Googled "em Client" and Google came up with About 2,760,000,000 results (0.49 seconds) Thankfully the first result takes you straight to their website where you can download it. I haven't yet looked at it other than as described in my previous message.
Paul
-----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com On Behalf Of Kurt @ Gmail Sent: 12 April 2022 22:21 To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: Re: Accessing/processing archived emails
You're quite welcome Paul!
And, wow - 894 hits on the ProFox search is a LOT!
Interesting find on the eMClient. Can you pass us some info on it here. As I may want to take a lookat that myself and try it - since I also use Thunderbird. And, actually have a couple outstanding issues with access of some emails and folder.
Thanks! -K
On 4/12/2022 2:11 PM, paul.newton.hudl@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks for your reply and suggestion, Kurt.
Searching for "thunderbird" in the ProFox archive returns 894 matches! However I did find one useful thing for starters - an e-Mail client (eM Client) with which I was able to import all the MBOX messages.
Paul Newton
-----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com On Behalf Of Kurt @ Gmail Sent: 12 April 2022 00:21 To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: Re: Accessing/processing archived emails
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.hudl@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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When I mention an "email application" to my clients, they look at me like I have three heads.
"What? Why not just use a phone app or web browser?"
These kids these days...tsk...
Mike
Kurt @ Gmail wrote:
Hey Paul - OK, no worries. Got it.
On the website - does it stated whether it's a free or paid type of tool? And, once you do try it out - I'd be curious to know what you think about it - and if it does what you need done.
Oddly - I still to this day get strange looks from people when I mention Thunderbird. As I've been using it since nearly its original inception - which I THINK when Mozilla was 1st released or shortly there after. I've enjoyed using Thunderbird - and I am surprised that I almost NEVER Come across anyone that uses Thunderbird!!!
-Kurt
On 4/12/2022 2:27 PM, paul.newton.hudl@gmail.com wrote:
Kurt
I don't really have anything to pass on in the way of info - I just Googled "em Client" and Google came up with About 2,760,000,000 results (0.49 seconds) Thankfully the first result takes you straight to their website where you can download it. I haven't yet looked at it other than as described in my previous message.
Paul
-----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com On Behalf Of Kurt @ Gmail Sent: 12 April 2022 22:21 To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: Re: Accessing/processing archived emails
You're quite welcome Paul!
And, wow - 894 hits on the ProFox search is a LOT!
Interesting find on the eMClient. Can you pass us some info on it here. As I may want to take a lookat that myself and try it - since I also use Thunderbird. And, actually have a couple outstanding issues with access of some emails and folder.
Thanks! -K
On 4/12/2022 2:11 PM, paul.newton.hudl@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks for your reply and suggestion, Kurt.
Searching for "thunderbird" in the ProFox archive returns 894 matches! However I did find one useful thing for starters - an e-Mail client (eM Client) with which I was able to import all the MBOX messages.
Paul Newton
-----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com On Behalf Of Kurt @ Gmail Sent: 12 April 2022 00:21 To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: Re: Accessing/processing archived emails
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.hudl@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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😊
-----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com On Behalf Of Mike Sent: 13 April 2022 00:35 To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: Re: Accessing/processing archived emails
When I mention an "email application" to my clients, they look at me like I have three heads.
"What? Why not just use a phone app or web browser?"
These kids these days...tsk...
Mike
Kurt @ Gmail wrote:
Hey Paul - OK, no worries. Got it.
On the website - does it stated whether it's a free or paid type of tool? And, once you do try it out - I'd be curious to know what you think about it - and if it does what you need done.
Oddly - I still to this day get strange looks from people when I mention Thunderbird. As I've been using it since nearly its original inception - which I THINK when Mozilla was 1st released or shortly there after. I've enjoyed using Thunderbird - and I am surprised that I almost NEVER Come across anyone that uses Thunderbird!!!
-Kurt
On 4/12/2022 2:27 PM, paul.newton.hudl@gmail.com wrote:
Kurt
I don't really have anything to pass on in the way of info - I just Googled "em Client" and Google came up with About 2,760,000,000 results (0.49 seconds) Thankfully the first result takes you straight to their website where you can download it. I haven't yet looked at it other than as described in my previous message.
Paul
-----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com On Behalf Of Kurt @ Gmail Sent: 12 April 2022 22:21 To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: Re: Accessing/processing archived emails
You're quite welcome Paul!
And, wow - 894 hits on the ProFox search is a LOT!
Interesting find on the eMClient. Can you pass us some info on it here. As I may want to take a lookat that myself and try it - since I also use Thunderbird. And, actually have a couple outstanding issues with access of some emails and folder.
Thanks! -K
On 4/12/2022 2:11 PM, paul.newton.hudl@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks for your reply and suggestion, Kurt.
Searching for "thunderbird" in the ProFox archive returns 894 matches! However I did find one useful thing for starters - an e-Mail client (eM Client) with which I was able to import all the MBOX messages.
Paul Newton
-----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com On Behalf Of Kurt @ Gmail Sent: 12 April 2022 00:21 To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: Re: Accessing/processing archived emails
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.hudl@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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Hi Kurt
To answer your question, please visit their website ...
Paul
-----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com On Behalf Of Kurt @ Gmail Sent: 12 April 2022 23:34 To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: Re: Accessing/processing archived emails
Hey Paul - OK, no worries. Got it.
On the website - does it stated whether it's a free or paid type of tool? And, once you do try it out - I'd be curious to know what you think about it - and if it does what you need done.
Oddly - I still to this day get strange looks from people when I mention Thunderbird. As I've been using it since nearly its original inception - which I THINK when Mozilla was 1st released or shortly there after. I've enjoyed using Thunderbird - and I am surprised that I almost NEVER Come across anyone that uses Thunderbird!!!
-Kurt
On 4/12/2022 2:27 PM, paul.newton.hudl@gmail.com wrote:
Kurt
I don't really have anything to pass on in the way of info - I just Googled "em Client" and Google came up with About 2,760,000,000 results (0.49 seconds) Thankfully the first result takes you straight to their website where you can download it. I haven't yet looked at it other than as described in my previous message.
Paul
-----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com On Behalf Of Kurt @ Gmail Sent: 12 April 2022 22:21 To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: Re: Accessing/processing archived emails
You're quite welcome Paul!
And, wow - 894 hits on the ProFox search is a LOT!
Interesting find on the eMClient. Can you pass us some info on it here. As I may want to take a lookat that myself and try it - since I also use Thunderbird. And, actually have a couple outstanding issues with access of some emails and folder.
Thanks! -K
On 4/12/2022 2:11 PM, paul.newton.hudl@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks for your reply and suggestion, Kurt.
Searching for "thunderbird" in the ProFox archive returns 894 matches! However I did find one useful thing for starters - an e-Mail client (eM Client) with which I was able to import all the MBOX messages.
Paul Newton
-----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com On Behalf Of Kurt @ Gmail Sent: 12 April 2022 00:21 To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: Re: Accessing/processing archived emails
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.hudl@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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Cool - its FREE for Home users like Me! Nice!
I'm going to give it a shot...
-K
On 4/13/2022 7:26 AM, paul.newton.hudl@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Kurt
To answer your question, please visit their website ...
Paul
-----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com On Behalf Of Kurt @ Gmail Sent: 12 April 2022 23:34 To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: Re: Accessing/processing archived emails
Hey Paul - OK, no worries. Got it.
On the website - does it stated whether it's a free or paid type of tool? And, once you do try it out - I'd be curious to know what you think about it
- and if it does what you need done.
Oddly - I still to this day get strange looks from people when I mention Thunderbird. As I've been using it since nearly its original inception - which I THINK when Mozilla was 1st released or shortly there after. I've enjoyed using Thunderbird - and I am surprised that I almost NEVER Come across anyone that uses Thunderbird!!!
-Kurt
On 4/12/2022 2:27 PM, paul.newton.hudl@gmail.com wrote:
Kurt
I don't really have anything to pass on in the way of info - I just Googled "em Client" and Google came up with About 2,760,000,000 results (0.49 seconds) Thankfully the first result takes you straight to their website where you can download it. I haven't yet looked at it other than as described in my previous message.
Paul
-----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com On Behalf Of Kurt @ Gmail Sent: 12 April 2022 22:21 To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: Re: Accessing/processing archived emails
You're quite welcome Paul!
And, wow - 894 hits on the ProFox search is a LOT!
Interesting find on the eMClient. Can you pass us some info on it here. As I may want to take a lookat that myself and try it - since I also use Thunderbird. And, actually have a couple outstanding issues with access of some emails and folder.
Thanks! -K
On 4/12/2022 2:11 PM, paul.newton.hudl@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks for your reply and suggestion, Kurt.
Searching for "thunderbird" in the ProFox archive returns 894 matches! However I did find one useful thing for starters - an e-Mail client (eM Client) with which I was able to import all the MBOX messages.
Paul Newton
-----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com On Behalf Of Kurt @ Gmail Sent: 12 April 2022 00:21 To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: Re: Accessing/processing archived emails
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.hudl@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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