#!/usr/bin/python # # email_stats.py # # Time vs date plot for an email mbox file. # # Copyright (C) 2015 George C. Privon # # This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. # # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU General Public License for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License # along with this program. If not, see . import mailbox import datetime import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import matplotlib.dates as mdates import argparse parser = argparse.ArgumentParser() parser.add_argument('mbox', help='Mailbox to analyze.') parser.add_argument('--plotfile', '-p', default=False, action='store', help='Name of output plotting file.') parser.add_argument('--title', '-t', default='Email Send Times', action='store', help='Plot title.') args = parser.parse_args() plt.figure() plt.ylim([0, 24]) plt.ylabel('Hour') plt.xlabel('Date') plt.minorticks_on() plt.title(args.title) a = mailbox.mbox(args.mbox) for msg in a: if msg['date'] is not None: try: z = datetime.datetime.strptime(msg['date'], '%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %z') except ValueError: try: z = datetime.datetime.strptime(msg['date'], '%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %Z') except ValueError: print("Skipping message from " + msg['date']) continue plt.plot_date(z.date(), z.hour + z.minute/60., fmt='r.', # tz=z.tzname(), xdate=True) if args.plotfile: plt.savefig(args.plotfile) else: plt.savefig('email_times.png')