Access thunderbird emails by python

Question

I need to get informations out from my tree of Thunderbird message folders (which contains a large amount of email).

I need to be able to search the messages (optionally the attachments) and to report to the calling program.

There is some python module able to do it?

Sorry, I just discovered that Thunderbird format is fully mbox compatible, so that techniques as the one discussed in https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7166922/extracting-the-body-of-an-email-from-mbox-file-decoding-it-to-plain-text-regard are ok - I approve the motion to close — alessandro, Feb 07 '14 at 13:37

score 12 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 07 '14 at 13:41

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As you apparently figured out yourself already, yes.

The vanilla python module mailbox, which exists in any python 2 or 3 version, is all you need:

answered Feb 07 '14 at 13:41

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