Email Address Extract
Extracting emails from files is probably something that the majority of computer users never need to do. It refers to parsing files to identify email addresses and make those addresses available after the parsing so that they can be used in programs or applications.
It can however be interesting to some users who have them stored in a database with all kinds of information and want to extract all emails to mail every user in that database. It can be used as a way to collect addresses to spam Internet users as well but I'm not advocating this as I hate spam just like everyone else on this planet.
But, if you happen to have a plain text file that contains a number of email addresses, then you may find it useful to use a software program to extract those email addresses. This can be useful to add them all to a mailing list for instance, without having to copy those mail addresses manually which would take a long time.
The software Email Address Extract works surprisingly well. All you need to do is point it to a folder on your hard drive and select the file type that you want to be crawled.
Some preconfigured files types are htm, log and dat but it is possible to use wildcards or other file types as well. The option to process sub-folders automatically is available as well here.
The scan itself does not take longer than a few seconds normally. I did test it on one of my mailbox files in Thunderbird and it did extract more than 6000 emails from it which means it works with with all files that contain text. Doubt it will be highly successful crawling binary files though.
Emails that have been found can be exported into a text document for further processing. They can be sorted by username or mails server before doing so.
Update: the program has not been updated for a while and it is not compatible with 64-bit editions of the Windows operating system. The program homepage lists Windows NT as the last compatible operating system, and while you may still be able to run it on later versions of Windows, you may run into issues doing so.
An alternative that you may want to use is Email Extract, an online service that you can use to extract emails from text that you paste into the online form.
It has its issues as well obviously. First, it is an online service which means that whoever operates it gets at least theoretical access to the emails as well.
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You said that Outlook isn’t your main email client, so which is your main one?
I think its thunderbird
It is Mozilla Thunderbird.
Awesome! This actually solved my problem… what a stupid bug.
If this is the same bug that I’ve encountered, there may be another fix: (1) hover over open Outlook item in Taskbar, cursor up to hover over Outlook window item, and right-click; (2) this should give you Restore / Move / Size / Minimize / Maximize — choose Move or Size; (3) use your cursor keys, going arbitrarily N/S/E/W, to try to move or size the Outlook window back into view. Basically, the app behaves as though it were open in a 0x0 window, or at a location that’s offscreen, and this will frequently work to resize and/or move the window. Don’t forget to close while resized/moved, so that Outlook remembers the size/position for next time.
THANK YOU Claude!!! I could get the main window to launch but could not get any other message window to show on the desktop. You are my hero!!!!
Solved my issue! 6 years later and this is still problem…
Fantastic. Thank you. Size did the trick.
This solved my Outlook problem, too. Thank you. :)
Thank you so much, this started happening to me today and was causing big problems. You are a life saver, I hope I can help you in some way some day.
You are a god – thank you!
thanks a lot…. work like charm.. :-)
Yah…thanks Claude. I’ve been having the same problem and tried all the suggestions…your solution was the answer. It had resized itself to a 0/0 box. Cheers
Excellent post. This had me baffled even trying to accurately describe the problem. This fixed it for me.
Thank you
Thanks a lot for the article. Don’t know why it happenend, don’t know how it got fixed, but it was really annoying and now it works :-)
Thanks a lot. I was facing this issue from past 3 week. I tried everything but no resolution. The issue was happening intermittently and mainly when I was changing the display of screen ( as i use 2 monitors). The only option i had was to do system restore. But thanks to you.
I’ve been tried to sole this problem for 12hours. Your comment about changing the display of screen helped me a lot!! Thanks!!
Thank you…don’t know why this happened but your instructions helped me fix it. Running Windows 10 and office pro 2007
Great tip! Thanks!
Worked for me, too – thank you!!!
It’s Worked for me, too
thank you very much!
I had a similar issue with Outlook 2013 on Windows 10 and this helped me to fix it. Thank you very much!
Thank you so much. Solved!
Considering you published this in 2012, incredible not been debugged by Microsoft.
Thank you again. M
This problem was faced by only one user logging to TS 2008 r2 using outlook 2010.The issue was resolved.
Thanks.
Great tip. Thank you!!!! If it helps, I had to use the Control Key and the arrow keys at the same time to bring my window back into view. Worked like a charm.
Thank you, this worked !!!!
Man, you are a fucking god. Thanks a lot, what an annoying bug!!
Awesome, this post solved the issue. Many thanks!