On 20 May 2015, at 3:05, Sherif Soliman wrote:
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 guess it's possible, but it would never be safe to do so while
MailMate is running. It could also change at any time in the future.
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
The best way to generate such data would be to create a bundle with one
or more commands. I would love to have a general statistics bundle which
users could use to visualize aspects of their emails (or email
activity).
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.
Manually parsing email headers “correctly” is a *huge* task and I
would strongly discourage such an approach.
Any tips?
If you want to explore creating a Statistics bundle for MailMate then
I'll be happy to help. We can do that off list.
--
Benny
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