On 05Apr2009 01:16, Chris Rebert <c...@rebertia.com> wrote: | On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 1:04 AM, robert <rob...@nowhere.invalid> wrote: | > Is there a API/possibilty for reading&writing (live) in the mail box tree of | > Thunderbird/Seamonkey with Python? | | >From what I can google, they're already in mbox format, so you can use | mailbox.mbox to read/write to them. | See http://docs.python.org/library/mailbox.html#mailbox.mbox
But you should probably _not_ have thunderbird open when you modify them; it expects exclusive access. Also, if you modify a file you should probably remove the corresponding .sdb file, which is a cache of Thunderbird's knowledge of the mbox contents (header values and probably message offsets within the file). -- Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ ..And in all of Babylonia there was wailing and gnashing of teeth, till the prophets bade the multitudes get a grip on themselves and shape up. - Woody Allen -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
