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Re: Getting data out of Mozilla Thunderbird with Python?

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Anthony Papillion wrote:

> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----

Please don’t do that again.

> I have a TON of email (years) stored in my Thunderbird. My backup
> strategy for the last few years has been to periodically dump it all
> in a tar file, encrypt that tar file, and move it up to the cloud.
> That way, if my machine ever crashes, I don't lose years of email.
> 
> But I've been thinking about bringing Python into the mix to build a
> bridge between Thunderbird and SQLite or MySQL (probably sqlite) where
> all mail would be backed up to a database where I could run analytics
> against it and search it more effectively.
> 
> I'm looking for a way to get at the mail stored in Thunderbird using
> Python and, so far, I can't find anything. I did find the mozmail
> package but it seems to be geared more towards testing and not really
> the kind of use I need.
> 
> Can anyone suggest anything?

Yes.

(Please never ask that question again:
<http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html>)











Thunderbird uses the mbox format to store both e-mails and news messages.

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Getting data out of Mozilla Thunderbird with Python? Anthony Papillion <anthony@cajuntechie.org> - 2015-12-08 12:21 -0600
  Re: Getting data out of Mozilla Thunderbird with Python? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-12-08 19:42 +0100
    Re: Getting data out of Mozilla Thunderbird with Python? Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-12-08 20:31 +0000
    META email [was Re: Getting data out of Mozilla Thunderbird with Python?] Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-12-09 18:43 +1100
  Re: Getting data out of Mozilla Thunderbird with Python? Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus@gmx.de> - 2015-12-09 09:03 +0100
    Re: Getting data out of Mozilla Thunderbird with Python? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2015-12-09 22:11 +1100
      Re: Getting data out of Mozilla Thunderbird with Python? srinivas devaki <mr.eightnoteight@gmail.com> - 2015-12-09 19:36 +0530
      Re: Getting data out of Mozilla Thunderbird with Python? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-12-10 01:15 +1100
      Re: Getting data out of Mozilla Thunderbird with Python? Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2015-12-09 17:25 +0000
      Re: Getting data out of Mozilla Thunderbird with Python? Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2015-12-09 23:23 -0700
        Re: Getting data out of Mozilla Thunderbird with Python? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-12-10 14:26 +0100

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