email_analytics/email_stats.py

#!/usr/bin/python

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.')
args = parser.parse_args()

plt.figure()
plt.ylim([0, 24])
plt.ylabel('Hour')
plt.xlabel('Date')
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')