Re: recreate address book from sent folder?

[Rick Merrill]

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.


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Re: recreate address book from sent folder?

[Traveller]

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.
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Re: recreate address book from sent folder?

[Rick Merrill]

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"?

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Re: recreate address book from sent folder?

[ftr]

On 13/10/2010 10:17, Ken Whiton wrote:

*-* On Tue, 12 Oct 2010, at 13:40:36 -0700,
*-* In Article,
*-* 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
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Re: recreate address book from sent folder?

[Ken Whiton]

*-* On Tue, 12 Oct 2010, at 13:40:36 -0700,
*-* In Article ,
*-* 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
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Re: recreate address book from sent folder?

[NoOp]

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


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.


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Re: recreate address book from sent folder?

[Bill Davidsen]

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 
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the machinations of the wicked."  - from Slashdot
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Re: recreate address book from sent folder?

[Beverly Howard]

>> 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 ()
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





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Re: recreate address book from sent folder?

[Richard Owlett]

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

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Re: recreate address book from sent folder?

[Terry R.]

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.
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recreate address book from sent folder?

[Nelson Bolyard]

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?

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