In mail.app, get list of Previous Recipients for just one of the many email accounts

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I use mail.app to interact with about a dozen different email accounts, which I use for different purposes. I need to create a list of the Previous Recipients of just on of those email accounts. A forum I was admin for crashed, and we lost the member database. Luckily, to join they had to email the admin account, and I then sent them a welcome email. We have restarted it at a new location. I'd like to notify people who were activated before. Recipients is better than senders so I don't inadvertently invite all the spammers to join!

Since recipient auto-complete functions properly, mail.app must have access to senders/recipients directly and I just want to access that information for a specific single email account – the forum admin account and not my personal or other special purpose accounts.

Buscar웃 provided an AppleScript that solves this for Senders instead of Previous Recipients, but I've never used Applescript so my attempts to modify it were unsuccessful. See In mail.app, get list of recipients for just one of the many email accounts.

Best Answer

Try:

tell application "Mail" to set previousRecipients to address of every recipient of messages of mailbox "Sent Messages" of account "my account name"

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Account type: imap

Incoming mail server: mail.me.com

Outgoing mail server: smtp.me.com

(I note that Apple's KB of this states: smtp.mail.me.com i.e. mine does not have "mail" in it).

User name: (_ _ _ _ _)@me.com (don't put in @me.com though)

Tick require logon using SPA

on advanced tab:

outgoing server tab

my outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication: tick this

use same settings as my incoming mail server: click this

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Use following type of encrypted connection: SSL

Outgoing server (SMTP): 587

Use following type of encrypted connection: TLS

So far my account is still working but have not upgraded to iOS5 or iCloud yet as waiting for update to another program that I use to bypass iTunes for music importing.

Mail.app Recipients List – Get List of Recipients for One Email Account

Here is a 2 step process to do that.

Part I

First create a Smart Folder in Mail.

There you will sort all emails specific to a selected account.

smart folder

You can skip the above part and sort by account then select the messages from a single account.

Part II

Now use (Copy) one of those Apple Scripts (Thank you Matthieu Riegler) in to your AppleScript Editor.app

tell application "Mail"
    set theSenderList to {}
    set theMessages to the selected messages of message viewer 0
    repeat with aMessage in theMessages
        set end of theSenderList to (extract address from sender of aMessage)
    end repeat
    set AppleScript's text item delimiters to " "
    set the clipboard to (theSenderList as string)
    set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ""
    beep
end tell

Now back to the Mail Smart folder, and select as many emails as you want there (or all).

Back to Apple script, click run and it will extract the addresses of the selected emails to your clipboard. Once done....

Open new Notes or other empty text document and click Paste to get the addressees collected.

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