How do I export my mail addresses?

export email addresses from gmail folder on google apps

• we have a google apps mail account and I've been filing emails i've sent to certain people in a specific folder (using tags). is there a way to export the email addresses of all the people I emailed for messages in this folder? thanks, B

• Answer:

  Nothing built-in to Google Apps does this, but here's what I'd recommend: Export your mail with something like Thunderbird connected to your account over IMAP (POP works too). Gmail labels will map to folders. Export your mail for that specific label (now a folder in Thunderbird) to a folder on your hard drive. They'll probably be in a mbox or eml format, both very parseable. Write a script to look at all the email in that folder, extract the email addresses, and then write them to a new csv file. If you don't know how to get started writing this script, just pay someone to do it - not worth your time, and it's an easy task for someone who knows what they are doing. I can do it for you if you are interested. Then you'll have the csv file with all these specific email addresses! Bonus: This answer applies more generally, to questions of the form: "I want to perform some sort of analysis on emails I have in Gmail, but there's no way to do it natively in Gmail."