My e-mail is a huge repository of information that I need to curate in a file system. A bit of background; We've used Thunderbird since day one. Not only have we used Thunderbird since it became available we sent all our previous e-mail from other clients to our Thunderbird clients for referencing. We have about 3,220,000 separate e-mail filtered into separate folders on separate clients. Each person maintains their own. What I need to do is convert each e-mail into a document format; i.e. pdf, doc, or txt, for each client, and generate the file name based on a formula. I can code a program to handle each document, however chasing the documents thru the Thunderbird topology/file system could be a real research project. Is there an API that would recurse thru the Thunderbird repository and return an e-mail at a time? Or something akin to this? Any direction would be appreciated. Mike