On Jan 16, 2012, at 4:59 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Jan 16, 2012, at 2:12 PM, Len Gerstel wrote:
My google fu is week here. Running Apple Mail 2.1.3 on 10.4.11,
but have access to a 10.6 if that has a better answer.
snip
Short of importing the whole 14,000 into AddressBook, then
exporting them from there, are there any options? I already
converted the .emlx files to an mbox, but am not having luck
exporting from there.
geeky way to do it:
<http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=731859>
I R A Perl haxor, all nails must be hit with the perlhammer. It
looks like the Email::Address CPAN module does what you want.
To install the module do (In terminal)
sudo cpan install Email::Address
And accept all the defaults...
Also the 'previous recipients' data might be exportable with some
terminal hackery:
<http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20110516152604993>
Thanks, and I bow to your HAXORness. I installed Perl and
Email::Address as per the instructions, but my eyes glazed over
pretty quickly.
After some more googling I came across http://andreasamann.com/MacOSX/
Mail_Scripts which does it from address Book
I figured I would give it a shot. Selected 14,547 messages in Mail
and selected Add Sender to Address Book, then let my dual 2.0 G5
churn for a while. Address book deduped them, so left with 3,152
cards. Then ran Export Addresses (Address Book) from the site above's
scripts and let that churn.
Total time trying to find a one step solution from mail, both active,
including searching, and computer churning was about 4.5-5 hours
through all the variations I tried.
Total time once I accepted a 2 step solution going through Address
Book, about 40 min. 10 of that was active, the rest churn time.
Len
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