On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 23:48:34 -0800, Tim Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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
Thanks, I'll work with this. I have to say that this has all been worth it just to read about Jamie Zawinski railing against this file format. I think your comment at the top sums it up well: # Why am I doing this? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
