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/.