addrcollector 1.0.2

A Python application for collecting email addresses from email messages

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.

$ addrcollector --help
addrcollector: Collect email addresses for later retrieval, or
search the database of previously collected addresses.

Usage:
  addrcollector.py --add ADDRESS [NAME]
  addrcollector.py --import
  addrcollector.py --search WORD...
  addrcollector.py --help

Options, arguments, and commands:
  -a --add      Manually add an address.
  ADDRESS       Email address to add to database.
  NAME          Name to associate with email address (optional).
  -i --import   Import addresses from headers of one message via standard input.
  -s --search   Search database for addresses; multiple keys are ORed.
  WORD          Search key.
  -h --help     Usage help.

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 up this, 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

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/>.