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

[Lee Revell <rlrevell joe-job com>]

On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 23:56 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 02:56 +0100, guenther wrote:
> > > 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
>
> Or:
>
> cat Inbox|formail +1 -ds formail -c -x From:|sort|uniq  

Superfluous cat.

formail +1 -ds formail -c -x From:|sort|uniq < Inbox