Re: [Evolution] Can I extract email addresses from emails?

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

> Just to confirm I am a newbie to the list, so apologies if this is one
> of those 'answered that 10 times already' mails.
>
> Anyway, I have various folders of emails which have come from
> customers/contacts and I wanted to 'scan' the emails and extract email
> addresses from the text and the headers and put them into a file.
>
> Under Outlook this is possible via an additional 3rd party app which
> scans the pst file. Is there a way of doing this with Evolution?

Nope, not with Evolution -- but with 3rd party apps. ;-)

As Evolution stores mails by default in mbox format, it is pretty easy
to scan them for contained email addresses. (Yes, this is plain text,
unlike the .pst files...) I don't know about any app that does this,
though.


However, just started playing with this topic, as I got curious. This
perl one-liner does the trick pretty well -- although it will catch
unwanted header infos (like Message-Id:) as well, if it looks like a
valid email address.

$ perl -ne 'print "$1\n" while ( s/([\w.-]+@([\w-]+\.)+\w{2,})// )' ~/evolution/local/Inbox/mbox

Dunno, if this will help, but it was at least fun for a couple of
minutes for me... ;-)

...guenther


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