How to analyze email with python?

[Vonpupp]

Hello,

I would like to analyze my emails with python and answer some question like who are the most frequent senders, how many emails I receive per day, etc.

I am pretty sure this is doable by parsing all the mail folders directly. But I thought using mu's xapian db instead would make more sense.

Any idea if using mu's xapian db would possible for these purposes and how to start? My idea would be generate a huge dataframe in pandas for later analysis.

Thanks.

Albert.

[Husain Alshehhi]

Does `mu find` not satisfy your need? see `man mu-find`.

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[Dirk-Jan C. Binnema]

In particular, starting with e.g.
mu find "" --format=json
gets you all messages in json-format which you can then process in
python.

Note that dates are represented in the funny emacs time representation.

Kind regards,
Dirk.

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[Vonpupp]

Thank you very much both. I am very grateful for pointing me into the right direction. That is a solid start.

Regards,

Albert.