Re: Parsing mbox files with Windows Php [message #181704 is a reply to message #181666] |
Sat, 25 May 2013 16:08 |
Luuk
Messages: 329 Registered: September 2010
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On 24-05-2013 23:57, Chuck Anderson wrote:
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> I have been slowly building a Php/MySQL based IMAP email client. The
> Php IMAP functions are well documented and easy to use. I store
> messages in a MySQL database (attachments in the file system) for ease
> of organization, maintenance, backup and searching. I like it enough
> that I want to add my existing archive of email in Thunderbird. To do
> so, I need to parse mbox files and extract message headers, parts, and
> attachments. Thankfully, the Php IMAP functions can be used to open and
> parse an mbox file (or even a single .eml file) as well as opening a
> stream to the server.
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> Using this functionality I can write a script to run on my WAMP
> development machine that reads the Thunderbird folder structure, parses
> the mbox files and saves individual messages along with their
> folder/subfolder path in the Thunderbird folder hierarchy. It should be
> as easy as pointing it to the top of the folder structure and letting it
> do all the work from there.
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> Unfortunately, it appears that the Windows Php binary is unable to
> connect to an mbox file,
There are also scripts/tools to convert mbox to maildir format....
Maybe that could bring another way to solve this 'problem' ?
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