On 10/12/2010 02:26 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: > 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? >> > > Yes, at least for SeaMonkey 2.0.8 under WinXP Pro. > I had seen the answer to this somewhere, but couldn't remember > details. So a little experimentation filled in blanks - knowing a > solution is possible helps ;) > > Under > Window -> Address Book -> Tools -> Import > are a list of choices. [Comma or tab delimited are available] > > I went to > Window -> Address Book -> Tools -> Export > and exported one of my address books and found that the 1st gives > field titles thus telling you what needs to go where. > > HTH >
One way to eliminate wading through a multimeg Sent or Inbox file would be to set a message filter & filter on a generic '@' and just set it to tag the message. Then run the filter on the existing inbox. The filterlog.html file will have information regarding the filter results & have something along the lines of: Applied filter "Bugs" to message from Senders Name <redac...@bugs.launchpad.net> Thee above is of course from my filter list, but you can see the delimiters for grep extraction. Or, just copy & paste the html file into OpenOffice.org/LibO Calc and it will import with options to delimit. You can then construct a cvs file that can be imported back into addressbook. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
