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
Also, this fails for addresses with non-ASCII characters (email addresses deleted). $ formail +1 -ds formail -c -x From: < .evolution/mail/local/Inbox |sort -u | grep ISO =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22Alexander_Car=F4t=22?= <> =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22Martin_v=2E_L=F6wis=22?= <> =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Kristoffer_Lund=E9n?= <> =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Patrik_H=E4gglund?= <> =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Pelle_Lundstr=F6m?= <> =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Simo_Kivim=E4ki?= <> =?ISO-8859-1?Q?St=E9phane_Letz?= <> =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Piotr_Tajdu=B6?= <> Kristian =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Gr=F8nfeldt_S=F8rensen?= <> Milus =?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=E1nos?= <> Lee _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
