Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> __/ [ Whiskers ] on Sunday 05 March 2006 00:01 \__
>> I expect a more 'refined' method could be devised, but grep is the basic
>> tool. See man grep ;))
>
> The task at hand makes it appear like liasing with a spammer would a good
> idea. You would not realible extract addresses based on the "@" symbol,
> nor would you be able to pull addresses reliably based on regex with
> "From:".
The key difference between me and a spammer is that I can see by looking at
the email address whether it's wheat or chaff.
> You are still left with some issues like non-RFC-compliant messages.
Well if they don't have the common courtesy to comply with RFCs, they don't
get into the contact book ;-)
> I'd imagine that the best use of time would involve echoing or
> concatenating all lines that contain "From: ", then remove duplicate lines
> and manually copy them to KMail. If you add some commas in accordance with
> the CSV conventions (if any exist), then you should be able to import as
> CSV. I think you get to assign the column names (thus meaning) when
> importing file that are CSV or TSV. You could use KSpread to help you with
> that.
Thanks for the CSV tip. I nearly ended up spending the entire day doing
something perl-y with .vcf files :-S
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