How to copy all email addresses from an email in Thunderbird

Question

Is there a way to automatically copy all the email addresses from an email's To, Cc, Bcc headers etc in Thunderbird? I am currently right clicking and doing "Copy Email Address" for each one but this is obviously unsatifactory.

Answer 1

Yes, you can. Just use Message Source in the View menu.
You'll see all the same details as in the header of the e-mail but in a format you can copy and paste...

Answer 2

Can you drag and select them, then just copy + paste what's selected (ie all?).

When doing this in Outlook, although the e-mail addresses may not be visible they're still copied (& pasted).

Answer 3

If you have several mails, then I would just export all the emails and write a little script, that extracts all the email addresses from the files. Then you really have it automatically. Of course that's only good, if you have more than one email.

Answer 4

What I usually do is ... Forward email. I have my TB configured to forward inline. Then, there you get all the headers in text. I just copy the mails and the paste in the new message.

Done ;)

Answer 5

I have answered a similar question: create address list (mailing) from email recipients.

EMail Address Crawler is a very old Thunderbird add-on that extracts email addresses from all the emails within a folder. It retrieves addresses from the email source code (header and body). This is useful when an email is forwarded or when there are extra addresses within the email header (e.g. redirection email addresses):

• open the context menu on an folder of emails
• select Crawl folder for email addresses
• choose the destination mailing list (or choose a new one)
• choose some options, click OK
• then the add-on extracts email addresses from the folder emails content and stores them within the chosen mailing list

But, EMail Address Crawler may not compatible with your Thunderbird version. In order to force install, disable extensions.checkCompatibility in the about:config or simply use Disable Add-on Compatibility Checks. However, even disabling compatibility check, EMail Address Crawler may not be usable (the folder context menu may just open the address book window).

Moreover, there is another old add-on: CrowdMailer. This very basic add-on is still compatible with recent Thunderbird versions:

• copy-paste the email source code into the CrowdMailer dialogue box
• CrowdMailer extracts the email addresses
• CrowdMailer creates a new email filled with these extracted addresses

But I did not found a way to save these addresses within a mailing list... who has an idea?