On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 11:28 AM, Kurt @ VR-FX <[email protected]> wrote:
> I would like to extract out the e-mail addresses from my Thunderbird Inbox -
> to put into a VFP dbf file. I would like to extract the e-mail addy,
> person's name (if possible), the Subject and the Content/msg Body.

IIRC, Thunderbird saves mails locally in mbox format
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mbox>, which is  a plaintext file
format.

It should be fairly straightforward to write a VFP routine to slurp in
the mbox file and parse out your items of interest.

dt

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Dave Thayer
Denver, CO

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