Is there a way to get the content of specific mails from the Thunderbird Inbox file in bash?

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I want to open the standard Inbox file that Thunderbird creates and read out mails (text/body suffices) by specific properties like sender, date or subject.

I can get the content of the file via less Inbox, but that ouput is completely unstructured and has no UTF8 encoding. I don't see any way for filtering for specific mails and displaying/processing their content.

I have searched some time for a solution, but I could not find any hint how to even approach this. But since Thunderbird can distinguish the mails in this file, it surely must be possible somehow.

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