Electronic
mails are the fastest way of transferring information in every field.
Although there are a number of email client applications available
for sending and receiving emails. Every email application client has
their own features. From the list of email application clients, I am
introducing Thunderbird email application client.
Thunderbird
Mail Application: - Thunderbird
mail application is a mail client designed by Mozilla. Basically it’s
an open source cross platform used as newsgroup, newsfeed, chat
purpose and for sending and receiving emails. Along with POP and
IMAP, Thunderbird also supports for LDAP account (Lightweight
Directory Access Protocol) that is an additional benefit. Moreover
Thunderbird also supports for different operating system that is
another great advantage for user. List of Operating Systems on which
Thunderbird is operated i.e.
- Windows
- Linux
- OSX
- Open Solaris
- Free BSDOS/2 and ecomStation
Default
location of Thunderbird in Windows Directory is:
- For users of Windows 2000/XP/2003:
C:\Documents
and Settings\[username]\Application Data\Thunderbird
- For users of Windows NT
C:\WINNT\Profiles\[userName]\Application
Data\Thunderbird
- For Windows 98/98SE/ME
C:\Windows\Application
Data\Thunderbird
NOTE:
Run windows on default "C:\" drive or partition
- For Mac OS X
- ~/Library/Thunderbird/Profiles/xxxxxxxx.default/.
For
user of Linux
- Linux/UNIX~/.thunderbird /xxxxxxxx.default/.
Mail
Messages Format of Thunderbird Application:
Mozilla
Thunderbird files are stored in profile folder associated with user
profile. User’s mails are stored in mail folders in the MBOX
format. To find these mailboxes, user can open their profile folder
The
profile folder contains all configuration files of Mozilla
Thunderbird. To find out the location of mail, follow these steps:
- Point to Tools menu apply command entitle as Settings.
- Now, select the desired account.
- Open option entitle as “Server settings”.
- Folder named as “Local directory” will open.
- Now, copy the information you receive from the Local directory and paste it in to the Windows Explorer.
By
using these steps, user will able to see their mail folders
Thunderbird
supports for three types of mail format. File Format that are
supported by Thunderbird are:
- Mbox
- Mork
- Sqlite
Let
us discuss in brief about the MBOX file format which is of common
use.
MBOX
FILES:
MBOX
files are basically collection of all electronic mails present in a
mailbox. These files contain all mail messages in form of a single
plain text file. In MBOX files, all messages are concatenated in a
single file in form of string. These messages start with a line
consist of five letters i.e. "From" and followed by a space
in sender's e-mail address. To append the message with other mail, a
blank line is added at the end of every message.
Modified
Formats of MBOX Family: Mbox
files are associated with four types of formats i.e
- mboxo,
- mboxrd,
- mboxcl,
- mboxcl2.
Example
of Mbox file
From
MAILER-DAEMON Sat Aug 12:08:34 2012
From:
Aida <aida@demo.com>
To:
amanda < amanda @ demo.com>
Subject:
Demo message
Body
of the message
>From()
How
to configure your mail
From
MAILER-DAEMON Sat Aug 12:08:34 2012
From:
Aida <aida@demo.com>
To:
amanda < amanda @ demo.com>
Subject:
Demo message part2
This
is the second body.
Location
of thunderbird files i.e.
Here
tilde character (~) indicates to Home Folder of current user
Supporting
Clients for MBOX files are:
Supporting
clients for MBOX files are Thunderbird, Eudora, Apple mail,
Entourage, Mac Mail, Spice bird, Pocomail.
The
main reason behind popularity of MBOX file is their email structure
that is in text form. These files can be read easily by using text
processing tools and also help in saving email messages.
I
hope after reading above article, user is aware of Thunderbird
application and file formats associated with them.
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