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).

class eulcommon.binfile.outlookexpress.MacFolder(folder_path)

Wrapper object for an Outlook Express 4.5 for Mac folder, with a MacIndex and an optional MacMail.

Parameters:folder_path – path to the Outlook Express 4.5 folder directory, which must contain at least an Index file (and probably a Mail file, for non-empty folders)

all_messages

Same as messages except deleted messages are included.

count

Number of email messages in this folder

messages

A generator yielding an email.message.Message for each message in this folder, based on message index information in MacIndex and content in MacMail. Does not include deleted messages.

raw_messages

A generator yielding a MacMailMessage binary object for each message in this folder, based on message index information in MacIndex and content in MacMail.

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.

class eulcommon.binfile.outlookexpress.MacIndexMessage(fobj=None, mm=None, offset=0)

Information about a single email message within the MacIndex.

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 corresponding MacIndexMessage.

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

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 the MacIndexMessage 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 return data correctly.

as_email()

Return message data as a email.message.Message object.

data

email content for this message

deleted

boolean flag indicating if this is a deleted message