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

[Lee Revell <rlrevell joe-job com>]

On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 23:10 -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
> 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

Sorry, the lack of space between pipes threw me off.  Also sort -u is
more efficient than sort | uniq.

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

Lee