Re: [Evolution] copying all email addresses from a folder .. how?

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

> I was wondering if it is possible to grab all sender email addresses
> from messages that have been sent to me and are in a specific folder. I
> don't want to have to go through all the messages and copy each email
> address to a text file. Thanks!

Want the output in a text file? Standard UNIX tools are your friend. :-)


Collect a list of email addresses including real names, sorted
alphabetically:

$ cd ~/.evolution/mail/local/
$ grep ^From: Inbox | sed -e "s/^From: //" | sort | uniq

This time the addresses only:

$ cd ~/.evolution/mail/local/
$ grep ^From: Inbox | sed -e "s/^.*<//" -e "s/>$//" | sort | uniq

Note, these commands only work with local mails. If you want a different
mail folder than Inbox, use the appropriate file rather than "Inbox" in
the above commands.

To redirect the output into a file in your $HOME append something like
this (starting with the ">" char) to the command. Note: This will
overwrite an existing file without warning, if you happen to have a file
with the same name already in your $HOME.

  > ~/harvested-email-addresses-are-in-here

NOTE: Works for me. Use anything above at your *OWN* RISK!


Yet another note: The paths mentioned are correct for Evo 2.4.x. Don't
recall if they are exactly the same for Evo 2.0.x, which you happen to
use.

...guenther


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