email_analytics

Email Analytics

A short script to do simple analysis of mbox email files.

Currently the script:

• plots time vs day of all emails, optionally color-coded by user-specified sender information (example below)

In the future, I would like to add capabilities to:

• histograms collapsed along different axes
• histogram of popular email addresses
• gant chart of when email addresses were being emailed
• histogram of number of attachments and size of attachments
• histogram of number of recipients
• word count of emails?
• python natural language toolkit analysis?

Usage

For usage information:

$ python email_stats.py -h
usage: email_stats.py [-h] [--plotfile PLOTFILE] [--title TITLE]
                      [--sendercolors SENDERCOLORS]
                      mbox

positional arguments:
  mbox                  Mailbox to analyze.

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --plotfile PLOTFILE, -p PLOTFILE
                        Name of output plotting file.
  --title TITLE, -t TITLE
                        Plot title.
  --sendercolors SENDERCOLORS, -s SENDERCOLORS
                        Comma separated list of search strings for the sender
                        field. Each will be displayed with a different color.

Sample Output

License

The script is licensed under the GPLv3.