# Creating mail list in Outlook from existing messages

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creating-mail-list-in-outlook-from-existing-messages/184832>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 27, 2003, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creating-mail-list-in-outlook-from-existing-messages/184832 "2003-06-27T20:01:20Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 27, 2003, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creating-mail-list-in-outlook-from-existing-messages/184832/1 "2003-06-27T20:01:20Z")

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Is there a snazzy way to take a folder or .pst full of emails and have some process extract all the names the emails were sent to and dump them into a Contacts list or the to: field on a new message?

Version in question is Outlook 2000, running on Windows 2000.

I just don’t feel like opening/previewing all those messages to get the names!