What format is the address book data in?

[Jonathan Pritchard]

Hi there,

I was wandering if there were any storage formats that the Mozilla
Thunderbird address book uses? If it is proprietary could someone link
me to the spec please?

Thanks.
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[Pavel Cvrcek]

Hi,

Jonathan Pritchard wrote:
> I was wandering if there were any storage formats that the Mozilla
> Thunderbird address book uses? If it is proprietary could someone link
> me to the spec please?

Mork
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mork_%28file_format%29

Regards,

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[Tim Howe]

Pavel Cvrcek <jasn...@jasnapaka.com> writes:

> Jonathan Pritchard wrote:
>> I was wandering if there were any storage formats that the Mozilla
>> Thunderbird address book uses? If it is proprietary could someone
>> link me to the spec please?
>
> Mork
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mork_%28file_format%29

http://jwz.livejournal.com/312657.html

There's some Perl code there to make sense of the madness, apparently.

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[Jonathan Pritchard]

Tim Howe wrote:
> Pavel Cvrcek <jasn...@jasnapaka.com> writes:
>
>> Jonathan Pritchard wrote:
>>> I was wandering if there were any storage formats that the Mozilla
>>> Thunderbird address book uses? If it is proprietary could someone
>>> link me to the spec please?
>> Mork
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mork_%28file_format%29
>
> http://jwz.livejournal.com/312657.html
>
> There's some Perl code there to make sense of the madness, apparently.
>

Thanks,

In case anyone would like to know why I asked. It's because I'm
currently starting to rewrite "Synching Thunder" in C, hopefully to have
address book synching at some point.

Thanks again.

[gNeandr]

Am 09.09.2006 20:48 schrieb »Jonathan Pritchard«

Hello Jo,
how about your progress. I'm thinking about it too. Struggling with the
"true" approach how to sync two ab's. Thought it doing based on
"lastModifiedDate" item, but as fas as I see TB sets this always to "0Z"?
What's your approach?

[jonathanr...@googlemail.com]

Sorry I didn't see this in ages, kind of found my information and left.
I haven't started to write it yet, either the bookmarks code or the
address book code (which would be even harder).

Am I the only one who thinks this will be _so_ much easier when they
switch it over to an SQL backend.

I'm in contact, or at least was with the maintainer of Synching
Thunder, which was written in Java. It manages to sort through the
inboxes with a file approach, and use their unique tags to identifiy
which inbox is missing which, and then makes it so that all the IDs are
in both inboxes. I'm trying to implement it in C. If you've got any
questions, email me as I haven't checked this thread in ages.

Thanks.

[garth]

Pavel Cvrcek wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Jonathan Pritchard wrote:
>> I was wandering if there were any storage formats that the Mozilla
>> Thunderbird address book uses? If it is proprietary could someone link
>> me to the spec please?
>
> Mork
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mork_%28file_format%29
>
> Regards,
>

whatever the format, it must export as .csv

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