Re: recreate address book from sent folder?
Traveller wrote: On 13/10/2010 5:40, Rick Merrill 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? Can you drag n drop from Collected Addresses to Personal Addresses? Yes. My question was addressed to the OP to see if this would address his aunt's need. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: recreate address book from sent folder?
*-* On Tue, 12 Oct 2010, at 13:40:36 -0700, *-* In Article c8ydncsesovwwinrnz2dnuvz_r2dn...@mozilla.org, *-* Nelson Bolyard wrote *-* About recreate address book from sent folder? 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? For Thunderbird there is the EMail Address Crawler extension (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/9995/), but there doesn't appear to be anything similar for SeaMonkey. :-( As a workaround, you could temporarily install Thunderbird, install the Crawler extension and let it do its thing in her Sent folder, and then uninstall the extension and Thunderbird. If you do that, I would recommend using TB2 rather than TB3. Some of the reviews of the extension indicate that it doesn't work with (at least) some versions of TB3, and for a temporary installation you don't need that added hassle/uncertainty. Ken Whiton -- FIDO: 1:132/152 InterNet: kenwhi...@surfglobal.net.inval (remove the obvious to reply) ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: recreate address book from sent folder?
On 13/10/2010 10:17, Ken Whiton wrote: *-* On Tue, 12 Oct 2010, at 13:40:36 -0700, *-* In Articlec8ydncsesovwwinrnz2dnuvz_r2dn...@mozilla.org, *-* Nelson Bolyard wrote *-* About recreate address book from sent folder? 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? For Thunderbird there is the EMail Address Crawler extension (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/9995/), but there doesn't appear to be anything similar for SeaMonkey. :-( I use the EMail Address Crawler extension, but the results have to be taken with caution. I tried it several times with a single mail; this never worked and - but this is not the problem of the poster. With several mails it worked but I did not do a thorough manually comparing test mails with crawled results. In any cause, unfortunately the extension owner - r the person that adapted the extension to a last version of TB - never answered my mails. - ftr ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: recreate address book from sent folder?
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? Can you drag n drop from Collected Addresses to Personal Addresses? ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: recreate address book from sent folder?
On 13/10/2010 5:40, Rick Merrill 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? Can you drag n drop from Collected Addresses to Personal Addresses? Yes. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
recreate address book from sent folder?
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? -- /Nelson Bolyard ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: recreate address book from sent folder?
On 10/12/2010 1:40 PM On a whim, Nelson Bolyard pounded out on the keyboard 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? Hi Nelson, Here is a link that might help recover the profile of the AB that was lost: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Talk:Recovering_a_missing_profile A similar question was asked recently regarding exporting addresses in email. Here is my answer to them: As far as I know, the only way would be to open the email and press Ctrl-U to view the source, then copy the email addresses that way. You can export your current address book as a CSV and open it to view how it's laid out. Excel will place each field in a column, but a plain text editor will use commas for each field. You can use whichever you're more comfortable with and then import the file into your AB when done. Terry R. -- Anti-spam measures are included in my email address. Delete NOSPAM from the email address after clicking Reply. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: recreate address book from sent folder?
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 ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: recreate address book from 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? This is a programming issue that can be attacked in a number of different ways... your mention of grep indicates some tech skills The first thing that comes to my mind is to use a text editor with a good macro utility... ...for example using http://textpad.com , I would; open the sent file then build a macro that; search for @ search for ) begin marking (shift) search backwards for ( copy switch window (to a collection file) paste type carriage return switch back (note, other characters than ( might be better markers) repeat to end of file... Then sort the lines alphabetically and you would be in a good position to delete large blocks such as her address and lines that didn't begin with ( etc, etc... Then either de-dupe or manually cut duplicate lines. ...above is theory, untested, but have done many similar jobs using textpad macros. Beverly Howard ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: recreate address book from sent folder?
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 ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: recreate address book from sent folder?
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 quot;Bugsquot; to message from Senders Name lt;redac...@bugs.launchpad.netgt; 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
