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.h...@gmail.com wrote:
Many thanks, Frank
It looks as if Vince's suggestion might very well work and would be the ideal
solution.
Paul
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From: ProfoxTech <profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com> On Behalf Of Frank Cazabon
Sent: 11 April 2022 23:19
To: profoxt...@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.h...@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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