.MSF files

[Sauron]

Greetings y'all!

I have a friend who brought a computer to me (from his local technical shop) and asked me to find his email and address book (I guess the local techies destroyed everything) - and I can't find a whole lot to be perfectly frank. I have run Unformat programs - the whole nine yards - and some things make me wonder if the computer had its hard drive replaced. I really can't find his old emails (supposedly he was using Outlook Express) or his address book.

However - that is beside the point. I have huge .MSF files - and while I understand that is part of Thunderbird/Netscape and one can't use them because they are index files - if I open them with Notepad I am still able to read the emails.

Is there a program or a way to extract the data out of these .MSF files (some running into the hundreds of megabytes)? I can't find anything - and I am bowing before the gods here who might be able to fix my dilema. He is running a HP with XP - about a thousand megs of ram - and about a 300 gig hard drive.

[mickzer]

Info:
http://dotwhat.net/msf/227/

Maybe this will do what you want (I've not used it) :
http://www.processtext.com/abcthunderbird.html


mickzer.

[Sauron]

No - it doesn't. It requires the real "email" file. And I am aware of what the .MSF is - but it seems to me with the amount of data that can be found within one - that there should be some way of extracting it.

[glc]

The only way I know of is copy/paste.