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.h...@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
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From: ProfoxTech <profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com> On Behalf Of Kurt @ Gmail
Sent: 12 April 2022 00:21
To: profoxt...@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.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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