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Apart from being a boring question I don't even know how to ask it.
So my very small company has just been absorbed into a mega company (I'm not exactly chuffed but that's for another thread) They have bought us (just 2 staff) for our knowledge and experience in a particular field and they want access to all those contacts and relationships we have made over the last decade.
Now for the (really) boring bit, all my contacts email addresses are stored in the email server we use and just appear in the To: box on a drop down when I type their name. How can I grab all that info when I get transitioned over to the mega company email set up? Can it be done?
The best answer I can give (without knowing the server software, versions, setup, etc) is "Probably".
That information is on the server and, assuming you don't take it down and destroy it, the information is probably not going anywhere, so moving it when you get transitioned is not urgent. I'd go one step further and say it is probably going to become the problem of some poor schmuck in the large company's IT department to solve rather than your issue (unless the buy-out stated you would hand that over when the money drops).
10 years of unstructured info in a server backup is going to present a challenge for whoever is tasked with going through it though.
Sounds a precarious way of working!
Which email client do you use and how many addresses are there?
If the answer is Outlook and a few hundred you could do this manually by right clicking on each address in the To: field in turn, selecting "Copy address" and then pasting it into a text file or spreadsheet.
Or you could highlight all the addresses in the To: field and paste into a text file. You would probably have an output similar to
John Doe <jdoe@example.com>; Fredd Bloggs <fbloggs@example.com>
You could extract the emails addresses from that text string by various means - I would probably use Python