addrcollector

A Python application for collecting email addresses from email messages

About

addrcollector collects email addresses from email messages. This is similar to Thunderbird's "Collected Addresses" feature and corresponding functionality in other software. In the case of addrcollector, however, email messages are read from standard input, or manually on the command line, and the email address database can be queried by keyword.

It is possible for addrcollector to be integrated with a mail delivery system like Procmail or Maildrop to collect addresses from all messages, or with mail clients like Mutt or Alpine to collect addresses selectively.

Dates and display names are also collected. If an address is seen more than once, then (1) the date is updated and (2) the display name is updated if the new one is longer than the old one.

For example, to add an address manually (the display name is optional):

$ addrcollector add [email protected] "Jon Smith"
$ addrcollector add [email protected]

To import addresses from a message passed on standard input:

$ addrcollector import < mymail.msg

To search for addresses using keywords (multiple keywords may be given and are ORed):

$ addrcollector search jon sven
2020-07-03 [email protected]                Jon Smith
2020-07-03 [email protected]

Installing from PyPI

addrcollector is published on PyPI and can be installed with pip.

1. Install the addrcollector package.

   $ pip3 install addrcollector

   This should provide a ~/.local/bin/addrcollector script that you can execute.

2. If that path is included in your PATH environment variable, you can run the addrcollector command without typing the entire path. To set this up (if it hasn't been done already), add the following code in your ~/.bash_profile (it may be ~/.profile for a shell other than Bash):

   if [ -d "$HOME/.local/bin" ] ; then
       PATH="$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH"
   fi

Running from repository

If you have cloned the repository, you can run addrcollector from it directly.

1. Install Poetry:

   $ pip3 install poetry

2. With the addrcollector repository root as your current directory, use Poetry to install the dependencies:

   $ poetry install

3. Now that the dependencies have been installed, use Poetry to run addrcollector:

   $ poetry run addrcollector

Sponsors

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Contributing

If you interested in contributing to this project, thank you!

• Share this project with someone else who may be interested
• Contribute a fix for a currently open [issue](https://github.com/owenh000/addrcollector/issues) (if any) using a GitHub pull request (please discuss before working on any large changes)
• Open a new issue for a problem you've discovered or a possible enhancement
• Sponsor my work through GitHub Sponsors (see also owenh.net/support)

Thank you for your interest!

Copyright and License

Copyright 2020 Owen T. Heisler. Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0).

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

This source code may be used, modified, and/or redistributed according to the terms of the Creative Commons Zero 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) license. You should have received a copy of this license along with this program (see LICENSE). If not, see <https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/>.