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Looking for a good e-mail extractor

Not a crawler, not for spamming purposes - just legitimate business contact

         

MatthewHSE

12:18 am on May 5, 2004 (gmt 0)

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I have a form on my site where people can enter their name, address, and e-mail to receive physical, come-in-the-mailbox samples. We have permission to contact these people by e-mail (permission given by the user deliberately selecting an appropriately labeled checkbox), but since the form data is saved in a comma-delimited text database, there's no good, fast way of extracting the e-mail addresses for use.

I am not interested in spamming or sending unsolicited e-mail, and I am not interested in having a spambot roaming the web collecting e-mail addresses. All I want is a good tool that will extract the e-mail addresses from a .txt document. Is there a good, free tool that will do this?

If anyone can point me in the right direction here, it will save me a ton of data-entry time!

Thanks,

Matthew

encyclo

12:40 am on May 5, 2004 (gmt 0)

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What email program are you using? Outlook, along with many others, can import addresses directly from a .csv file, so it may just be a question of trying the Import Wizard and seeing if it can work out which field to import.

At worst, you can open the .csv file in Excel/other spreadsheet program and remove all the columns other than the one with the addresses in it. Save as .csv, and the import should go smoothly.