Hello MM list,
Does anyone know if it's possible to access MailMate's database** - the
one that contains all the metadata about emails that it manages?
I'd really like to be able to access my email data so I can analyze /
visualize things I'm interested in. As an example, see Stephen Wolfram's
personal analytics post:
http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2012/03/the-personal-analytics-of-my-life/
I've been able to collect and visualize a lot of my personal data so far
(keystrokes, todos, messages, IMs, daily steps, bike rides), and email
is next on my list.
So, ideally I'd be able to have a data file (or several) in some kind of
format (csv, JSON, XML, ...), with all the basic headers/metadata:
- from
- to
- cc
- date
- subject line
Less ideally it would be a database in some readable but non-standard
format and I'd have to do my own parsing with regex or other gymnastics.
_Least_ ideally is that I would have to write a script that would go
through all the directories in `~/Library/Application
Support/MailMate/Messages/...` and scrape/analyze each single .eml file
in each single directory. That would be very IO heavy and seems like a
waste since MailMate has already done that for itself. That is the last
resort, but I'd like to not have to do that.
Any tips?
Thanks!
Sherif
** Safely of course. As in, I'd copy it somewhere where the original
that MM depends on is untouched.
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