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Old 06-08-2010, 05:42 PM   #1
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Searching Thunderbird emails & extracting information


I have a load of emails in my Thunderbird trash folder and some of them (all with a similar subject) I want to extract the email address for them and put in a text file. I have located the trash file but it seems that it is just a big flat file with a concatenation of all my emails in it, varying number of header lines etc etc - ie, something which really doesn't seem to suit awk, sed, grep etc.

Does anyone know of any way this might be accomplished, or any third party tools which may help?
 
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I am not sure if there is any third party tool, but you will have to give some example data (obviously with any sensitive material removed) to make an educated
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