#sqlite #gmail #mbox #google #file #convert

app gmail-mbox-analyzer

analyze gmail mbox files

1 unstable release

0.1.0 Jun 7, 2024

#70 in Email

GPL-3.0-only

33KB
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gmail-mbox-analyzer

If your Google Mail is full and you want to understand why, gmail-mbox-analyzer may help.

This tool has two functions:

  • Converts an mbox file, probably exported from Google Takeout, into a SQLite database.
  • Provides a gloriously HTML 1.0 UI for drilling down by label, year, domain, and sender.

Installation

  • Ensure Rust is installed, probably via rustup.
  • From a shell: cargo install gmail-mbox-analyzer
  • You may need to install sqlite3 system libraries. For example, on Ubuntu, sudo apt install libsqlite3-dev

Usage

First, retrieve your mbox file from Takeout.

Then, from a command line, convert it to a SQLite database:

gmail-mbox-analyzer index "All mail Including Spam and Trash.mbox" mail.sqlite

Finally, load the report view:

gmail-mbox-analyzer report mail.sqlite

It will tell you to load a URL like http://localhost:31200/

Credits

This software wouldn't exist without the excellent mbox-reader, mail-parser, and rusqlite crates. With them, it only took a few evenings.

Special thanks to actix-web, https://docs.rs/tera/, and https://docs.rs/humansize/.

Dependencies

~55MB
~1M SLoC