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retrieve email addresses from mails and insert them into contacts

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angelsteek
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I have a lot of email imported in my mail boxes in Thunderbird. I would like to extract all email addresses from them (to, from, cc, bcc) and create a file that I can then import again in Thunderbird contacts. I've searched for quite some time now but I cannot find a way to make this work. I'm using Thunderbird 60.0 (32-bits) so unfortunately some of the add-on's I found do not work anymore.

Any help, suggestions is greatly appreciated.

Angelsteek

I have a lot of email imported in my mail boxes in Thunderbird. I would like to extract all email addresses from them (to, from, cc, bcc) and create a file that I can then import again in Thunderbird contacts. I've searched for quite some time now but I cannot find a way to make this work. I'm using Thunderbird 60.0 (32-bits) so unfortunately some of the add-on's I found do not work anymore. Any help, suggestions is greatly appreciated. Angelsteek

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sfhowes
sfhowes
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Email Address Crawler is working here in TB 60, but you may have to first switch the preference extensions.strictCompatibility to false to get it to install (Tools/Options/Advanced/General/Config. editor, double-click the preference to toggle its value). To install, drag the Download link and drop it onto Tools/Add-ons/Extensions in TB. Right-click a folder to show the window as in the attached picture. You can select an address book as the target of the collected addresses.

angelsteek
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Thanks sfhowes. This worked very well.