[plug] Working with Mbox files

[Wilkinson, Alex]

    0n Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 11:27:14PM +0800, Nathan Alberti wrote: 

    >I need to create a report for a bunch of mbox files that shows the number of
    >mail received for the past 7 days and the unread count (for those messages)

mboxstats and mboxgrep may help you:

mboxstats
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   mboxstats creates several top-10 lists from a file containing message 
   in mbox-format.  List of top10 lists:
   
   o Top writes 
   o Top receivers 
   o Top subjects 
   o Top cc'ers 
   o Top top-level-domain 
   o Top timezones 
   o Top organisations 
   o Top useragents (mailprograms) 
   o Top month/day-of-month/day-of-week/hour 
   o Average number of lines per message 
   o All kinds of per-user statistics 
   
   And much more! 
   
   WWW: http://vanheusden.com/mboxstats/

mboxgrep
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   mboxgrep is a small utility that scans a mailbox for messages matching a
   regular expression. Found messages can be either displayed on standard output,
   counted, deleted, piped to a shell command or written to another mailbox.
   
   Its features include:
   
   * ability to limit the search to message body or headers (although the whole
   message is scanned by default)
   * message counting
   * ability to invert the sense of matching
   * ability to write found messages to another mailbox
   * support for mbox (either plain or compressed), MH, nnmh, nnml and maildir
   folders
   * support for basic and extended POSIX regular expressions, and, optionally,
   Perl-complatible regular expressions (if linked with the PCRE library)
   
   WWW: http://mboxgrep.sourceforge.net/


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