John Reese 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. It's documented to some extent > here: > http://www.mozilla.org/mailnews/arch/mork/primer.txt
Hmmm. Wasn't David McCusker working for the OSA Foundation on Chandler at some point? Anyway, given the references to LDIF (and the fact that I have in the past exported address books from Netscape Communicator in LDIF format), the following specification might help: http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2849.html > 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. I'd look at the python-ldap project: http://python-ldap.sourceforge.net/ The ldif module might be of relevance, but there isn't an example in the documentation which would confirm my suspicions. Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
