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extracting email addresses from documents on Mac OS X
 one of the best standalone utilities i've found for extracting email addresses out of documents is MailJuicer, from Freshly Squeezed Software. it has, in my opinion, a lovely user interface and although it has some problems (see below), MailJuicer meets my basic criteria for what i use myself and recommend to others: simple, stable and free.
for some reason, MailJuicer simply isn't listed on Freshly Squeezed's freeware page, and their software isn't hosted anywhere but on their own servers (so i couldn't get it from MacUpdate or VersionTracker). manually rewriting the URLs at their site seemed to work, however, and until Freshly Squeezed fixes the problem you can try this link instead:
http://freshsqueeze.com/get.fss?get=MailJuicer
surprisingly, there aren't many utilities like it for Mac OS X. i did find something called JPEE that's free, but i didn't have time to figure out how it worked. Maxprog's eMail Extractor X (US$20) would probably work, and i found Url Extractor (US$45) which looks quite powerful, but as far as i could tell it doesn't recognize email address unless they're found in a mailto link.
like i said, MailJuicer isn't without problems. it crashed after extracting 3600 email addresses from a 227MB file, but my workaround was splitting my file in half and running MailJuicer on two smaller files instead of one.
~ Christefano, 16 June 2006
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