# Extracts mozilla specific mbox files. ...(c)GPL: jeffery bucove Oct 2009

# find the class specific "mbox" identifier string
# at offset zero, find six char string "From -"

# 0d find mbox identifier string "From -"
0 string From -

# at offset 56d, find the inbox identifier string "X-UIDL"
56 string X-UIDL

# the extension may be removed as you see fit
# it is only for human file management convenience
# and is added to the filename by magicrescue at runtime

extension mozin

command sed '/\x00\x00\x00/q' >"$1"

# sed streams throughput to $1 and matches three null bytes for a termination
# condition. On an undamaged mbox file, you could use a single null byte
# pattern match; however for the purposes of my particulat data recovery
# situation, I found three nulls to be useful for a recovery which satisfied my
# whim for larger and fewer recovered files.

# it will include non-printable chars which will result in a non-text file

# Other useful termination conditions may involve the use of non-printable
# chars which are illegal in mbox files, and may provide for a text file output
# if the data you are working from is undamaged: examples may include 
# command sed '/[\x00-\x09]/q' >"$1"
# command sed '/[\x0b-\x19]/q' >"$1"
# command sed '/[\x7f-\xff]/q' >"$1"


# I am using generic Ubuntu 9.04 on a Asus EeePC 1000 Netbook. Backup kiddies!!
# This whole exersize is an aftermath of discovery of the disastrous failure
# mode of SSD