List of Addresses in email body text...

How can i extract those for use...?

[Harley_m]

Hi,

Not sure hwere to put this - thought this woudl be the most suitable... :)

I am webmaster for a sucessful support group - to which members can join for free via an HTML form, that is then sent to me, listing there details - including their email address (though the message isnt directly from them)

There are about 1000 of these now - and i need to find a way to extract these email address, so that i can then copy into a BCC or a bulk mailer - so that i can send out news letters...

Id there a simple way of doing this? - the thought of copy and pasting everyone is a nightmare...

hope you can help!

Thanks, Harley

[TheDave]

Is the senders email in the body of the email, in the same place each time, or is it the From address of the email? If it's the From address you might be able to use outlook or something to get them into an address book. If the address is in the body of the email I guess you'd have to right some sort of script to parse the emails for the senders address and put it in a database. If you can't write a script to do this I think you're in for some copying and pasting :(

[Mardi_Gras]

Harley - what you are looking to do should be fairly simple. If you are using Outlook, Catrap (free trial available from ornicusa) will parse any delimited fields you want and place them where you want them - either in an Outlook contacts folder or into a spreadsheet for database use. Or both. Unlike some parsers, it will work on messages already in your in box. I parse the complete results of information request forms with it.

If you don't use Outlook, Address Manager Pro will search through the body of e-mails in Outlook Express and Eudora (as well as Outlook) and pull out all e-mail addresses. They do offer a demo version but it will only "show" you the e-mail addresses - to actually get them you have to pay. But it's less than $30.

Other options include Advanced E-mail Parser from mailutilities (pricey at over $300) and Message Parse.

Good luck - one of the above should meet your needs.

[jpjones]

If the incoming email has a standard prompt before it, e.g:

Email Address: [e-mail]

then you could use regular expressions to search for that and copy the line into an external file.

If using windows, you could save all the emails into 1 file, then use something like Textpad to do a general find for "Email Address:", bookmark the lines, then copy the bookmarked lines into a new document.

You've then got your list of emails.

JP

[Harley_m]

Thanks guys - very helpful... :)