Can I create a list of "correspondent" mail IDs from a specific folder of emails?
My email ID is with my ISP (Internet Service Provider). This email ID was created 20 years or so ago, when I didn't know better re having my email ID tied to an ISP. They have decided to be exceedingly unreasonable in rates and I have switched ISPs. But now I need to set up a new e-mail ID; one not associated with an ISP.
I did a search of my Thunderbird email to find all email from the last 25 months (past 2 years plus a one month buffer) and created a Thunderbird folder from that search. I want to extract the email IDs for all "correspondents" from this folder, put it into Excel and filter to remove duplicate correspondents. Then I will cleanse the list of all "correspondents" I do not wish to share my new email ID with and send e-mails to the rest advising those recipients to start using my new email ID.
I have been unsuccessful in several attempts to extract a list. I have the Thunderbird folder created from the search. I can "Select All", but this gets me the contents of all emails rather than the displayed metadata (subject, correspondents, date, location). Note that this folder contains over 5600 entries so I wish to avoid a manual process if at all possible.
Is there a way I can accomplish want I want? Any technique can, but doesn't have to, use the folder of emails created from the search.
Thanks
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If you do a web search for "extract email id from eml" you will be presented with a number of urls that have instructions on how to do that.
Thanks for the reply David. I looked through quite a list and everything seems to require buying somebody's "the greatest ever program" to do this one time thing. I decided to just export my "Collected Addresses", put in Excel, remove those I don't wish to notify of the change in address and go from there.
I have to admit I was surprised that there doesn't seem to be a way to pull this info from the folder email listing itself (basically, a screen scrape).
dgillesp said
I have to admit I was surprised that there doesn't seem to be a way to pull this info from the folder email listing itself (basically, a screen scrape).
There used to be an addon, but it went out of support a few years ago.
A rather "backward" way to do what you want is use the import export tools addon. https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/addon/importexporttools-ng/?src=ss
This allows the export of "all messages" in a folder > just index (CSV). This generates a CSV file with essentially the from and to addresses and subjects of all the email. It might suit your needs, it might not.