{"id":111,"date":"2013-07-07T14:05:58","date_gmt":"2013-07-07T06:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.boviner.com\/?p=111"},"modified":"2013-07-07T14:05:58","modified_gmt":"2013-07-07T06:05:58","slug":"splitting-thunderbird-mailbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/splitting-thunderbird-mailbox\/","title":{"rendered":"Splitting Thunderbird mailbox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mozilla Thunderbird uses the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.qmail.org\/man\/man5\/mbox.html\">mbox<\/a> format, which makes it incredibly portable and easy to process. Unfortunately, it also means that all of your messages within a Thunderbird folder is in single file*. This can cause problems if you keep using a folder for many years. For instance I have a mbox file that is >1GB and it&#8217;s mounted in a network share. Opening, modifying, backing up takes quite a while. I finally gave up and decided to do something about it. <\/p>\n<p>I wanted to organize my mailbox by year, while preserving its folder organization. A quick online search did not find anything I can use. So I whipped up my trusty PHP and wrote this.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/boviner\/splitmbox\">https:\/\/github.com\/boviner\/splitmbox<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Usual disclaimer applies.<\/p>\n<p>* I&#8217;m simplifying here. If your folder contains subfolders, each subfolder actually has it&#8217;s own file<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mozilla Thunderbird uses the mbox format, which makes it incredibly portable and easy to process. Unfortunately, it also means that all of your messages within a Thunderbird folder is in single file*. This can cause problems if you keep using a folder for many years. For instance I have a mbox file that is >1GB [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions\/115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tongwing.woon.sg\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}