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Master Addy Stripper
by
William Bontrager

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Your email program lets you have different "folders" or "mailboxes" for sorting/filtering and storing your emails. Most popular email programs store the emails of each folder in a big file.

No more do you have to copy and paste each email address from your emails. Just find the email folder file containing the emails you want the addresses from, upload it to your server, and put Master Addy Stripper to work.

Master Addy Stripper returns a list of names and addresses, one per line, formatted correctly for your email's To: line.

Outlook Express and Eudora for Windows both use .mbx extensions for their folder file names. Eudora for Macintosh uses no file name extensions, but uses the Eudora folder name as the hard drive file name. Pegasus for windows uses .pmm extension for file names containing multiple emails and .cnm for those containing only one email. Your email program might use a different file name convention.

Load likely files into a word processor until you find one with multiple emails stored inside. (Note: Don't change or save any of the files you inspect. It might mess up your email program.)

To prepare:

  1. Get Master Addy Stripper from http://willmaster.com/a/masteraddystripper.pl (Once you see it in your browser, store it on your hard drive as MasterAddyStripper.cgi)

  2. Change the first two lines of Master Addy Stripper according to the directions included in the program.

  3. Upload Master Addy Stripper to your server in a directory allowed to run CGI programs.

  4. CHMOD Master Addy Stripper to 755.

To use:

  1. Upload the email folder files you want scanned.

  2. Access Master Addy Stripper with your browser; the URL will be something like http://www.mydomain.com/cgi-bin/MasterAddyStripper.cgi

  3. Answer the questions on the form.

  4. Click the button.

(Sorry, Unix and Linux only. If you don't use the mailing portion of the program then it will probably work well on NT, too.)

Happy Holidays!

Copyright 1999 by William Bontrager

William Bontrager, Programmer and Publisher
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