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I needed to find a quick and dirty way to put all of Mail.app's stored email addresses into my Address Book. It turns out that these are stored in a SQLitev3 database named MailRecents-v4.abcdmr in ~/Library » Application Support » AddressBook/. To import these into Address Book's contact list, all I needed to do was this:
Install SQLitev3 (sudo port install sqlite3 if using MacPorts)
Dump the contents of the recents table to a text file with this series of commands in Terminal:
$ sqlite3 ~/Library/Application Support/AddressBook/MailRecents-v4.abcdmr
sqlite> .separator ,
sqlite> .output /path/to/outputput/file/Recents.csv
sqlite> select * from ZABCDMAILRECENT;
sqlite> .exit
Now use Address Book's File » Import function to import the newly-created Recents.csv as a text file. You will be prompted to choose which fields to import as what, with the first/last names and email addresses from your recents avail...
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