On 2004-02-22, Deboo penned: > Over the years, I have been using many email clients from windows to > linux and have been saving lots of old personal emails. I have many > them in many different formats as per the MUA. They are a lot. > > Now, I could search for one or two email addresses whenever I need to, > having kept all these different mailboxes in one directory. Never > having made an addressbook, is what caused this problem. I would like > to sort, search and make a list of the email addresses. I know qute > many of these addresses have become invalid over the years and some > friends' addresses are more than one or two, but still a list would be > nice. I know it can be done with shell scripting and better with perl > but I know neither. Not that I do not want to learn, but I need help > to get this list. Can anyone help me out by giving the commands needed > to do this? If they think this I am asking for mass e-mail, then I > could make a dir listing of the mailboxes and send you the list so you > know these are my friends and not some spam thing I am asking. >
You might look at /usr/share/doc/tmda/contrib/collectaddys from the tmda package. It creates a list of email addresses from your existing mailboxes. You'd have to hack it to add in aliases, though. -- monique -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]