>>>>>For some time I have been using an application called Smartserver which connects to an email pop server and retrieves the emails and files them all separately as text files in a given folder. Sadly this is a 16 bit application and I need to find a replacement - any ideas?
>>>>Thunderbird files emails separately.
>>>Rick I have downloaded Thunderbird but I can't find where it files emails
>>The email is stored to the .Thunderbird directory, which on Windows will likely be in your users\name\application... folder.
>>Mike has corrected me on this. Current versions of Thunderbird do not store emails separately. This has changed in the past few years, and I did not check before I told you that. It was just from my memory from the 2009/2010 timeframe when I was copying email to backups.
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>>I apologize, Colin.
>Thanks


Colin, I looked at the syntax of the single files stored by Thunderbird. They appear to be straight-forward text files which follow a particular format. It may be possible to parse those raw files out to individual extracts if you wish.

If you load it in a decent editor, like Notepad++, you can see the format. If you identify the start and end of each message, you could write even some VFP code to parse it out.