How to mail everyone in my inbox?

[jimcanswim]

Hi,

Is it possible to email everyone in my inbox without duplicating if they appear in my inbox more then once?

I want to send out a notification that I have changed my email address to everyone who has ever contacted me, but not spam them 50 times if they have emailed me 50 times.

I can't see anything that will work in rules.

The closest I can get is http://basics4mac.com/article.php/notify_changes

Anyone able to help?

Thanks

 

[miles01110]

Sort by address and go through the list.

 

[jimcanswim]

I was hoping there would be an automatic way of doing it as that would take forever to deal with 3 years worth of emails.

Anyone else?

 

[MikeDTyke]

There's likely an automator workflow, though i'm not in front of my mac to check.

A quick google brought this http://macscripter.net/viewtopic.php?id=25875

not so clear cut as it uses python to extract the addresses from files.

 

[MikeDTyke]

Much better way if you have lion. http://www.macworld.com/article/161326/2011/07/extract_email_address.html

Google is your friend.... a friend that tracks everything you do that is.

 

[jimcanswim]

Thanks Mike,

Looks interesting but I'm not sure from the description it will do what I need.

Also I don't have Lion and I'm in New Zealand where I have a 20GB cap, so downloading Lion would root me for the month.

Would love to hear if anyone can think of a work around in Snow Leopard.

Cheers

 

[miles01110]

I would think doing it manually would be better in the first place. You can eliminate all of the automated e-mail addresses (that your message will bounce back from) as well as eliminate people you never talk to anymore.