Extracting E-Mail Addresses From Thunderbird

arnold.pietersen · 06-13-2015, 08:27 AM

Hi

Any help will be appreciated.

I normally use the following line to extract e-mail addresses from my Inbox in Thunderbird:

Code:

egrep -o [A-Za-z0-9_.]*'[-]'*[A-Za-z0-9_.]*@[A-Za-z0-9_.]*[.][A-Za-z]*  < Inbox > Inbox.txt

However, I would like to extract e-mail addresses from all my Thunderbird mail files and folders, i.e recursively.

Any idea how I would go about doing that considering that the only thing the files will have in common is that they do not have an extension?

Any help will be appreciated.

Kind Regards

ARNOLD

Habitual · 06-13-2015, 08:54 AM

Open Tbird's Address Book and export them from Tools > Export... ?

http://its.isber.ucsb.edu/guides/how...ok-thunderbird

arnold.pietersen · 06-13-2015, 11:02 AM

Hi Habitual

Thanks for your response.

The e-mails might contain some other e-mail addresses in the body which would not have been used in a reply in order for it to be stored by Thunderbird.

I hope it make sense.

Kind Regards

ARNOLD

Habitual · 06-13-2015, 02:22 PM

All of the addresses I have ever "sent" through my Tbird are stored in
.thunderbird/uvpc4uva.default/ImapMail/mail.domain.com/INBOX-1 and your regex works for me like so:

Code:

egrep -o [A-Za-z0-9_.]*'[-]'*[A-Za-z0-9_.]*@[A-Za-z0-9_.]*[.][A-Za-z]* .thunderbird/uvpc4uva.default/ImapMail/mail.domain.com/INBOX-1 > Inbox.txt

Do you "see" a "[sS]ent" in your .thunderbird profile directory?
I don't see one in mine.

IMAP or POP?

arnold.pietersen · 06-13-2015, 04:08 PM

Hi Habitual

I use POP.

Maybe to phrase it in another way.

If I have say three folders with files in them, how would one go about to extract the e-mail addresses from all the files using 1 line of code, if possible.

FOLDER 1
file 1
file 2
file 3

FOLDER 2
file 1
file 2

FOLDER 3
file 1
file 2

Obviously, the line that I am using will not working for all of them at once. I will have to do it file by file.

Any guidance will be appreciated.

Kind Regards

ARNOLD

Habitual · 06-14-2015, 08:36 AM

Arnold:
Open your sent folder in Tbird and find an address that is uncommon that you've sent mail to.

Code:

grep <uncommon> .thunderbird/*.default -Rl

You should see some hits for the uncommon address.

Please let us know.

arnold.pietersen · 06-15-2015, 08:32 AM

Hi Habitual

It yielded no results.

Kind Regards

ARNOLD

Habitual · 06-15-2015, 12:05 PM

Then I am fresh out of ideas, sorry.