On 2025-11-18 at 14:59:16 UTC-0500 (Wed, 19 Nov 2025 08:59:16 +1300)
Rob Russell via mailmate <[email protected]>
is rumored to have said:
Hi all,
I want to extract just the subjects for a year's worth of messages in
a particular smart mail box for analysis.
I don't see any AppleScript commands that might do this and exporting
the messages to a folder and then writing a script to grep the subject
lines seems like a bit of a mission. Before I set off on that mission,
is there something obvious I am missing?
It strikes me as a very trivial "mission." An exported mailbox is just
text, so if you have an exported mailbox named 2025.mbox:
grep '^Subject: ' 2025.mbox | grep -o ' .*'
Will give you all the subjects without the leading "Subject:" tag
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Bill Cole
[email protected] or [email protected]
(AKA @[email protected] and many *@billmail.scconsult.com
addresses)
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