Extract email addresses from email header - Sender (From) - Mail

Sorry - I am lost - what is wrong with the output?

Are you saying that after disabling Smart Addresses you still have headers without From addresses? If so this appears different to my Apple Mail.

I assume you are saying that despite a From email address being in the header it is not getting to the output file.

If so I may be unable to help as my Mail does not work in the same way as far as I can tell.

You could try the Rebuild option on the Mailbox menu, shutdown the Mac, reboot and then try my latest AppleScript.

Dear Neville,

I have hundreds of email received / sent to various people sent whose accounts are in the same email server, for example @xyz.gov.in

I need to search and extract the following header information:

From:

To:

Cc:

Bcc:

Date & Time:

Subject:

Is there any script that can do this for me and create a text or .csv or any other file?

My OS: Mac OS 10.8.3

Apple Mail Version: 6.3

many thanks in advance

Amit

It is usually better to start a new thread although I may not see it unless you return here and paste its URL.

Do you use POP or IMAP?

Are all these messages stored on your Mac?

Dear Neville,

Thanks so much for such a prompt reply. I have started a new discussion here...

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5001113

I use pop & imap both. Messages are also stored in offline folders in Apple mail.

The emails have been sent / received in more than one account.

All messages are in Apple Mail v6.3. Mac OS 10.8.3

many thanks in advance.

best

Amit

muzaa,

Here is an applescript to extract all the email from (sender from) and then it save it in a text file in Documents and sorts it alphabetically.

tell application "Mail"

set selectionMessage to selection-- just select the first message in the folder

set thisMessage to item 1 of selectionMessage

set allSenders to sender of every message in mailbox of thisMessage

end tell

set listOfEmails to {}

-- End of Original set and beginning of new set

repeat with i from 1 to (count allSenders)

tell application "Mail" to set theFrom to (extract address fromitemi of allSenders)

if listOfEmails does not contain theFrom then

set end of listOfEmails to theFrom

end if

end repeat

set SortedListOfEmails to simple_sort(listOfEmails)

set ptd to path todocuments folderasstring

set theFile to ptd & "extracted.txt"

set theFileID to open for accesstheFile with write permission

try

repeat with i from 1 to count of SortedListOfEmails

writeitemi of SortedListOfEmails & returntotheFileIDas «class utf8»

end repeat

end try

close accesstheFileID

on simple_sort(my_list)

set the index_list to {}

set the sorted_list to {}

repeat (the number of items in my_list) times

set the low_item to ""

repeat with i from 1 to (number of items in my_list)

if i is not in the index_list then

set this_item to item i of my_list as text

if the low_item is "" then

set the low_item to this_item

set the low_item_index to i

else if this_item comes before the low_item then

set the low_item to this_item

set the low_item_index to i

end if

end if

end repeat

set the end of sorted_list to the low_item

set the end of the index_list to the low_item_index

end repeat

return the sorted_list

end simple_sort

pjdube, awesome script! Is it adaptable to extrat any email address from the contents of an email?

Hi Muzak, i just got the benefit og your reply :-)

I would like to extract the emailadresses in the "to" field.

Like to copy the receivers

br Michael