eulcommon.binfile.outlookexpress
– Outlook Express 4.5 for Mac¶
Map binary email folder index and content files for Outlook Express 4.5 for Macintosh to Python objects.
What documentation is available suggests that Outlook Express stored
email in either .mbx or .dbx format, but in Outlook Express 4.5 for
Macintosh, each mail folder consists of a directory with an Index
file and an optional Mail
file (no Mail file is present when a
mail folder is empty).
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class
eulcommon.binfile.outlookexpress.
MacFolder
(folder_path)¶ Wrapper object for an Outlook Express 4.5 for Mac folder, with a
MacIndex
and an optionalMacMail
.Parameters: folder_path – path to the Outlook Express 4.5 folder directory, which must contain at least an Index
file (and probably aMail
file, for non-empty folders)-
count
¶ Number of email messages in this folder
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messages
¶ A generator yielding an
email.message.Message
for each message in this folder, based on message index information inMacIndex
and content inMacMail
. Does not include deleted messages.
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raw_messages
¶ A generator yielding a
MacMailMessage
binary object for each message in this folder, based on message index information inMacIndex
and content inMacMail
.
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class
eulcommon.binfile.outlookexpress.
MacIndex
(fobj=None, mm=None, offset=0)¶ A
BinaryStructure
for the Index file of an Outlook Express 4.5 for Mac email folder.-
messages
¶ A generator yielding the
MacIndexMessage
structures in this index file.
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class
eulcommon.binfile.outlookexpress.
MacIndexMessage
(fobj=None, mm=None, offset=0)¶ Information about a single email message within the
MacIndex
.
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class
eulcommon.binfile.outlookexpress.
MacMail
(fobj=None, mm=None, offset=0)¶ A
BinaryStructure
for the Mail file of an Outlook Express 4.5 for Mac email folder. The Mail file includes the actual contents of any email files in the folder, which must be accessed based on the message offset and size from the Index file.-
get_message
(offset, size)¶ Get an individual
MacMailMessage
within a Mail data file, based on size and offset information from the correspondingMacIndexMessage
.Parameters: - offset – offset within the Mail file where the desired
message begins, i.e.
MacMailMessage.offset
- size – size of the message,
i.e.
MacMailMessage.size
- offset – offset within the Mail file where the desired
message begins, i.e.
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class
eulcommon.binfile.outlookexpress.
MacMailMessage
(size, *args, **kwargs)¶ A single email message within the Mail data file, as indexed by a
MacIndexMessage
. Consists of a variable length header or message summary followed by the content of the email (also variable length).The size of a single
MacMailMessage
is stored in theMacIndexMessage
but not (as far as we have determined) in the Mail data file, an individual message must be initialized with the a size parameter, so that the correct content can be returned.Parameters: size – size of this message (as determined by MacIndexMessage.size
); required to returndata
correctly.-
as_email
()¶ Return message data as a
email.message.Message
object.
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data
¶ email content for this message
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deleted
¶ boolean flag indicating if this is a deleted message
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