Mork

Old newsgroup documentation:

• Primer
• Grammar

On MDC:

• Mork: What is it
• Mork: Why
• Mork Structure

All of the format documentation above is inaccurate and/or outdated to some degree. An attempt at an updated format description based on existing documentation, source code, and reading Mork files can be found here.

Hacks to parse mork format:

• http://www.jwz.org/hacks/mork.pl (perl)
• http://www.probo.com/timr/parsemsf.py (python) (doesn't always work)
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=175024&action=view (python)
• http://www.scalingweb.com/mork_parser.php (Open Source C++ Mork Parser)
• http://github.com/KevinGoodsell/mork-converter (python, supports multiple output formats and a plugin-like system for defining filters)

bug 241438 is a bug to replace Mork format that has some useful pointers, including the above python attachment

Mozilla2:Unified_Storage is planning to replace Mork.

See also

• Address Book
• Examples of various Address Book formats