Does anybody know of existing code to read a mork file (Thunderbird Address Book)?

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Published on 2008-08-22T17:19:52Z Indexed on 2010/03/20 2:41 UTC
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I have the need to read the Thunderbird address book on the fly. It is stored in a file format called Mork. Not a pleasant file format to read. I found a 1999 article explaining the file format. I would love to know if someone already has gone through this process and could make the code available. I found mork.pl by Jamie Zawinski (he worked on Netscape Navigator), but I was hoping for a .NET solution.

I'm hoping StackOverflow will come to the rescue, because this just seems like a waste of my time to write something to read this file format when it should be so simple.

I love the comments that Jamie put in his perl script. Here is my favorite part:

#   Let me make it clear that McCusker is a complete barking lunatic.
#   This is just about the stupidest file format I've ever seen.

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