Nelson Bolyard wrote:
I'm asking this question in both SeaMonkey and Thunderbird support groups
because I figure the answer is likely the same for either product.
My aged aunt lost her address book file in her Mac SeaMonkey profile.
But her sent folder is intact, with all the emails she's sent in the last
decade. Is there any way to populate a new fresh address book using the
To and CC addresses in the emails in her sent folder?
I could extract all the To and CC addresses from the folder (with grep).
If I did that, and had a plain text file of email addresses, would there
be a way to repopulate her address book from that file of email addresses?
The SENT file is a plain text file (at least on Linux) and can be parsed with
perl to extract the name and email address. These can be written in a CSV file
which can be reloaded. If you want to do the work you can set the "prefers to
receive mail as" field for any mail she sent in HTML.
For sanity' sake, teach her about backups! Lots of other stuff will be lost,
addresses for Christmas cards, kid's names, most people keep a lot of odd info
in that address book.
--
Bill Davidsen <david...@tmr.com>
"We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot
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