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Recover contact email addresses from past sent email (sent with other software)

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Tibert
Tibert

Hello,

I cannot find a way to get the email addresses from the past sent emails like with Mailspring. These emails were not sent with thunderbird, so there was no automatic collection of those emails.

I saw some extensions to crawl through email adresses, but they aren't supported anymore on the latest versions of thunderbird.

Exporting contacts from yahoo, gmail ... is not an option, because there is almost nothing to export. Also introducing manually each email address isn't an option neither.

I am using Thunderbird 91.1.0 and always update to latest stable. I am on Windows 10.

If someone has a way to do this and without malware risk, it would be very interesting. Thanks.

Hello, I cannot find a way to get the email addresses from the past sent emails like with Mailspring. These emails were not sent with thunderbird, so there was no automatic collection of those emails. I saw some extensions to crawl through email adresses, but they aren't supported anymore on the latest versions of thunderbird. Exporting contacts from yahoo, gmail ... is not an option, because there is almost nothing to export. Also introducing manually each email address isn't an option neither. I am using Thunderbird 91.1.0 and always update to latest stable. I am on Windows 10. If someone has a way to do this and without malware risk, it would be very interesting. Thanks.

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Thanks for your responses, all 3 are insteresting.

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Lampros
Lampros

Right click on the header email address and copy to address book with left click.

Stans
Stans

You could use this https://workspace.google.com/marketplace/app/email_address_extractor/1045030766919

sfhowes
sfhowes
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I can think of a way, but you might find it far too complicated. Install a version of TB in a separate folder that works with one of the crawler add-ons. All releases are here, and all portable versions are here. Run the old version in its own profile, using Profile Manager. Add any mail account, just to make Local Folders appear, and install the crawler add-on. Copy the mbox file for the folder(s) that you wish to crawl into Mail/Local Folders in the profile of the old version, while the old version is closed. Restart old TB and find the folder under Local Folders. Crawl the folder and have the addresses stored in an address book, export the book to LDIF, then import it in TB 91.

Did I mention it was complicated?

Tibert
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Thanks for your responses, all 3 are insteresting.