On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 23:10 -0500, Lee Revell wrote: > 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 > > Superfluous cat. > > formail +1 -ds formail -c -x From:|sort|uniq < Inbox
Sorry, the lack of space between pipes threw me off. Also sort -u is more efficient than sort | uniq. formail +1 -ds formail -c -x From: < Inbox |sort -u Lee _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
