Mozilla, Firefox, Thunderbird, and so forth use this awful format called MORK to store all kinds of things: which messages you've read in a newsgroup, headers and indexes into the mbox file of messages in a mail folder, and address books. It's documented to some extent here: http://www.mozilla.org/mailnews/arch/mork/primer.txt
Does anyone know of a Python library for parsing these files? A single file basically just stores the equivalent of a nested dictionary with text that can be declared separately and interpolated. jwz has an over-specific perl version at http://www.jwz.org/hacks/marginal.html, which I might have to try to translate if there's nothing already available in Python. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
