On Jan 16, 2012, at 2:12 PM, Len Gerstel wrote: > My google fu is week here. Running Apple Mail 2.1.3 on 10.4.11, but have > access to a 10.6 if that has a better answer. > > What I am trying to do is export the email addresses only from one account in > one mailbox. ie: In my inbox I have my gmail, comcast and business accounts. > I want to export only the email addresses in the inbox for my business > account. > > Everything I am finding is talking about exporting from AddressBook, which I > don't use except by accident. It only has about 75 contacts. I have 14,000 > email messages in my business email in box, with probably 1500 unique > addresses. I can dedupe the addresses, but I have to get them out first. > > Short of importing the whole 14,000 into AddressBook, then exporting them > from there, are there any options? I already converted the .emlx files to an > mbox, but am not having luck exporting from there.
geeky way to do it: <http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=731859> I R A Perl haxor, all nails must be hit with the perlhammer. It looks like the Email::Address CPAN module does what you want. To install the module do (In terminal) sudo cpan install Email::Address And accept all the defaults... Also the 'previous recipients' data might be exportable with some terminal hackery: <http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20110516152604993> -- Bruce Johnson "Wherever you go, there you are" B. Banzai, PhD -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
