Thunderbird / Shredder has one of the craziest format of storing its address book (Mork format) which is a pain in the ass for extension developers and programmers to move on, Jamie Zawinski a former Netscape engineer quotes "It is one of the brain damaged file system i have every seen in 19 years of my career".
Recently we were planning to develop an extension for thunderbird which needed to manipulate the addressbook though we are new to c++ and opensource as our domain is C# .NETCF it was very sad to see that there was no enough documentation and not even a sample to read and edit the addressbook found after googling for 2 days!!!
Though it was rumored that mork format to replaced with MozStoreage which is based on SQLite but there is no sign of it in beta version of thunderbird 3.o and still uses mork format... if any one form the mozilla is reading this post please take an initiative to replace that shitty mork format with SQLite
Recently we were planning to develop an extension for thunderbird which needed to manipulate the addressbook though we are new to c++ and opensource as our domain is C# .NETCF it was very sad to see that there was no enough documentation and not even a sample to read and edit the addressbook found after googling for 2 days!!!
Though it was rumored that mork format to replaced with MozStoreage which is based on SQLite but there is no sign of it in beta version of thunderbird 3.o and still uses mork format... if any one form the mozilla is reading this post please take an initiative to replace that shitty mork format with SQLite
2 comments:
I totaly approuve your point of view. Mork is a pain !
churchill
I came across your post while searching for information regarding this file format, I was thinking about adding Thunderbird Address Book Import/Export capability to my C# application.
From what I've read so far and seen in my abook.mab, this will not be possible unless I dedicate weeks of my time to it (unpaid time of course, it's free open source project which I am writing).
Sad! Thunderbird really lacks 3rd party syncing support across the board.
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