Re: Need a shell or perl script
On 2004-02-22, Deboo penned:
> Over the years, I have been using many email clients from windows to
> linux and have been saving lots of old personal emails. I have many
> them in many different formats as per the MUA. They are a lot.
>
> Now, I could search for one or two email addresses whenever I need to,
> having kept all these different mailboxes in one directory. Never
> having made an addressbook, is what caused this problem. I would like
> to sort, search and make a list of the email addresses. I know qute
> many of these addresses have become invalid over the years and some
> friends' addresses are more than one or two, but still a list would be
> nice. I know it can be done with shell scripting and better with perl
> but I know neither. Not that I do not want to learn, but I need help
> to get this list. Can anyone help me out by giving the commands needed
> to do this? If they think this I am asking for mass e-mail, then I
> could make a dir listing of the mailboxes and send you the list so you
> know these are my friends and not some spam thing I am asking.
>
You might look at /usr/share/doc/tmda/contrib/collectaddys
from the tmda package. It creates a list of email addresses from your
existing mailboxes. You'd have to hack it to add in aliases, though.
--
monique
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