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Paul Boddie
John said:Mozilla, Firefox, Thunderbird, and so forth use this awful format
called MORK to store all kinds of things: which messages you've read
in a newsgroup, headers and indexes into the mbox file of messages in
a mail folder, and address books. It's documented to some extent
here:
http://www.mozilla.org/mailnews/arch/mork/primer.txt
Hmmm. Wasn't David McCusker working for the OSA Foundation on Chandler
at some point? Anyway, given the references to LDIF (and the fact that
I have in the past exported address books from Netscape Communicator
in LDIF format), the following specification might help:
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2849.html
Does anyone know of a Python library for parsing these files? A
single file basically just stores the equivalent of a nested
dictionary with text that can be declared separately and interpolated.
jwz has an over-specific perl version at
http://www.jwz.org/hacks/marginal.html, which I might have to try to
translate if there's nothing already available in Python.
I'd look at the python-ldap project:
http://python-ldap.sourceforge.net/
The ldif module might be of relevance, but there isn't an example in
the documentation which would confirm my suspicions.
Paul