TheBat archive file (tbk) format

Question

I'd like to write a function to read archived emails from TheBat mail client archive file (.tbk). However, I can't find any specification of the format.

If anyone has this format description or digged it themselves, I'd be grateful.

Answer 1

Check out TheBat API Docs. Even if they don't give you direct low-level format of the file, using them you should be able to write your own functions to read message storage.

Answer 2

Try to open the tbk file in a text editor (notepad++ on windows, vi(m) or nano on linux, I don t know what on mac).

Is it plain text?

Yes->Write your parser

No->Write your parser using the API