PyThunderbird

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OsProject
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id  pyThunderbird
state  active
owner  WolfgangFahl
title  pyThunderbird
url  https://github.com/WolfgangFahl/pyThunderbird
version  0.0.10
description  
date  2021-10-15
since  2020-10-24
until  

Motivation

Thunderbird uses mailbox format and an sqlite database for keeping track of the mails. How can this setup be accessed with Python?


Installation

pip install pyThunderbird
# alternatively if your pip is not a python3 pip
pip3 install pyThunderbird 
# local install from source directory of pyThunderbird 
pip install .

upgrade

pip install pyThunderbird  -U
# alternatively if your pip is not a python3 pip
pip3 install pyThunderbird -U


Configuration

$HOME/.thunderbird.yaml

The yaml file has two entries per user

MacOS Example

joe:
  db: /Users/joe/Library/Thunderbird/Profiles/klm97bfn.default/gloda.sqlite
  profile: /Users/wf/Library/Thunderbird/Profiles/klm97bfn.default
kathy:
  db: /Users/kathy/Library/Thunderbird/Profiles/war97k3r.default/gloda.sqlite
  profile: /Users/kathy/Library/Thunderbird/Profiles/war97k3r.default

Linux example

in this example the server runs from an rsync'ed backup of the thunderbird files of the different users

user123:
  db: /hd/diskAlpha/backup/siteAlpha.com/user123/Library/Thunderbird/Profiles/randomID1.default/global-messages-db.sqlite
  profile: /hd/diskAlpha/backup/siteAlpha.com/user123/Library/Thunderbird/Profiles/randomID1.default
user456:
  db: /hd/diskBeta/backup/siteBeta.com/user456/Library/Thunderbird/Profiles/randomID2.default/global-messages-db.sqlite
  profile: /hd/diskBeta/backup/siteBeta.com/user456/Library/Thunderbird/Profiles/randomID2.default

Relevant Libraries

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