.msf documentation?

[Daniel]

Hi,
i am searching for a documentation of the .msf files used by
thunderbird. I wanna write a program that is able to read a .msf file
and tell me the id und flags (unread, deleted, ...) of the messages
contained by the associated mbox file (so that without extension).
Thanks for help,
Daniel

[Joshua Cranmer]

The .msf file is a mork database. The structure of mork is described in
<https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Mork>. I don't believe there is a
document which describes the full schema of the msf databases, but this
is highlights from my memory:

The main table is the list of all messages, where each row is equivalent
in general to an nsIMsgDBHdr. Each "column" corresponds to a property of
the message header, and most of the names should be fairly
self-explanatory. A fair amount of the metadata is stored in a flags
field, the bits of which are defined in nsMsgMessageFlags, which I
believe has documentation somewhere on MDC. There is also a table for
each thread, with the meta-row containing some metadata for threads
themselves (threads can have a subset of the message flags), and each
message comprising a row in the thread table.

[David Bienvenu]

If you're talking about local mail folders, it might be easier just to
parse the actual mbox file. See
http://www.eyrich-net.org/mozilla/X-Mozilla-Status.html?en for more info.

- David

[Jerry Evans]

Excellent link! Thank you.