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Technical description of the MAB file format

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Hello, I am looking for the technical description of the MAB file format. I tried to lookup dxr.mozilla.org but I couldn't find the code that reads it.

Best regards, /Philippe

Hello, I am looking for the technical description of the MAB file format. I tried to lookup dxr.mozilla.org but I couldn't find the code that reads it. Best regards, /Philippe

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I could not find the format, but found a very useful tool that can parse Thunderbird's MAB Address Book files (abook.mab etc) and convert to CSV: https://github.com/KevinGoodsell/mork-converter

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I could not find the format, but found a very useful tool that can parse Thunderbird's MAB Address Book files (abook.mab etc) and convert to CSV: https://github.com/KevinGoodsell/mork-converter