John Reese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >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.
Yes. What a crock that is. The MORK format is a great way to compress tabular information, IF the information consists of the same pieces of data over and over. E-mail boxes do not fit into that class, so I have no doubt that the typical Thunderbird MORK file is singificantly LARGER than the same file would be in, say, INI format. I wrote a Python script to parse it, but it isn't terribly robust. I was able to produce a dictionary, but I didn't do anything with the results. You're welcome to take a look: http://www.probo.com/timr/parsemsf.py -- - Tim Roberts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
