Accessing mail box tree of Thunderbird/Seamonkey?

[robert]

Is there a API/possibilty for reading&writing (live) in the mail
box tree of Thunderbird/Seamonkey with Python?

 

[Chris Rebert]

Is there a API/possibilty for reading&writing (live) in the mail box tree of
Thunderbird/Seamonkey with Python?

From what I can google, they're already in mbox format, so you can use

mailbox.mbox to read/write to them.
See http://docs.python.org/library/mailbox.html#mailbox.mbox

Cheers,
Chris

 

[robert]

mailbox.mbox to read/write to them.
See http://docs.python.org/library/mailbox.html#mailbox.mbox

I was already aware of. those mbox file just grow and grow until
one does a 'Compress Folder'. There are additional complicated
index files and caching and all. So it doesn't reflect the current
state nor allows for practical modifying.
I found only SimpleMAPI for the inbox&send only. the XUL api seems
to be usable only from inside.

Robert