[Evolution] Can I extract email addresses from emails?

[Toby A Inkster]

On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 17:50, guenther wrote:
> However, just started playing with this topic, as I got curious. This
> perl one-liner does the trick pretty well -- although it will catch
> unwanted header infos (like Message-Id:) as well, if it looks like a
> valid email address.
> 
> $ perl -ne 'print "$1\n" while ( s/([\w.-]+@([\w-]+\.)+\w{2,})// )' ~/evolution/local/Inbox/mbox

Better:

egrep -vi '((Message-ID)|(References)|(X-Evolution-Source))\:' ~/evolution/local/Inbox/mbox | perl -ne 'print "$1\n" while ( s/([\w.-]+@([\w-]+\.)+\w{2,})// )

Still by no means perfect.

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