Extracting mail contents from dbx files

Hi

I need to write PHP code to extract specific information from emails. Reading from Thunderbird is real easy because its stored in plain text format but how do I read from dbx files ? Any idea frmo where I can get the format ?

Thanks

 

Im not actually looking for a tool - I want to know the format of dbx files.

 

Thanks for the link.
I did find some at wotsit.org and one mentioned at http://oedbx.aroh.de/index.html but I guess its not all that simple to decode it.

 

Hello,
I'm working on the dbx format. I'm trying to build one myself. I have seen this website : http://oedbx.aroh.de/index.html , and I think there are some good informations, but it's now easy to do. If you want, we can share our informations, to make easier this search of information.
Thank you!

 

Glad to know someone is onto this.
Are you using VC or .NET ?
Unfortunately, only search results yield to version 5 format. We need ver 6 format too !

Here are some dbx format links from wotsit.

http://www.wotsit.org/download.asp?f=dbx5_wk
http://www.wotsit.org/download.asp?f=dbx5
http://www.wotsit.org/download.asp?f=dbx

But I doubt if these have the complete format.

Another way to check is to get Thunderbird source and see how they import OE dbx files to TB.

Good Luck !

 

I'm using java !
I think that the dbx format explanations are better in http://oedbx.aroh.de/index.html than in wotsit, but each information is important!
I continue to search, helped by http://oedbx.aroh.de/index.html and a .dbx file, and i'm going to search after source code of thunderbird.
good luck too !

 

Here is the source code of thunderbird : ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/releases/1.5rc2/source/
and here, a software to open the tar.bz2 :
http://www.7-zip.org/

 

anjanesh--For what it is worth, a free program
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/dbxviewer.html

Also I see DBXtract may not work with "Asian" versions of OE .