Re: [Evolution-hackers] extracting email to structured text (csv)
Hi all of you, thanks for you replies (in very short delay :o) I think i will do wat you propose, create a new mbox with the messages I want then parse it to extract data. I'm more experimented in python but, this is certainly a good way to practice ruby. Do you think it's useful for you, me to send results (scripts) on the evolution-hack list or somewhereelse ? thx Simon - Simon Le Bayon ZINDEP 25, rue de l'Ancienne Mairie 35230 Bourgbarré Tél : 02 99 57 79 73 Fax : 02 99 57 03 69 Por : 06 63 40 32 19 url : http://www.zindep.com skype : slebayon Le samedi 21 juin 2008 à 10:46 -0400, Reid Thompson a écrit : Reid Thompson wrote: Tobias Mueller wrote: Hey Simon :) On 18.06.2008 19:52 simon le bayon wrote: I'm a sociology phd student, with few competences in it, and i'd like to extract thousands of email from evolution to a csv or other structured file. I don't know whether mbox or maildir is structered enough and whether Evolution supports copypaste old mails to a new mbox account. But if both facts are given, you might want to create a new mbox (or maildir) account, copypaste your mails into that accout, so that all mails are in the mbox file and mess around with your data. HTH, Tobi ___ Evolution-hackers mailing list Evolution-hackers@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers rubymail, or one of the other ruby mail libraries may allow you to do what you want.. http://www.rfc20.org/rubymail/docs/ http://www.rfc20.org/rubymail/ rubymail has a parse_mbox call that might allow what you want... found this on the web... might be modifiable for what you want. #!/usr/bin/ruby -w # Split a mbox file into $year-$month files # Copyright (C) 2008 Joerg Jaspert # BSD style license, on Debian see /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD require 'pathname' require 'rmail' count = 0 File.open(Pathname.new(ARGV[0]), 'r') do mbox RMail::Mailbox.parse_mbox(mbox) do raw count += 1 print # count mails\n begin File.open(RMail::Parser.read(raw).header.date.strftime(split/mail-%y%m), 'a') do out out.print(raw) end rescue NoMethodError print Couldn't parse date header, ignoring broken spam mail\n end end end ruby tmail is also very nice. it should allow you to do what you want. http://tmail.rubyforge.org/reference/index.html notes that it recognizes mbox, maildir, etc. ___ Evolution-hackers mailing list Evolution-hackers@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
Re: [Evolution-hackers] extracting email to structured text (csv)
On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 10:45 +0200, simon le bayon wrote: Hi all of you, thanks for you replies (in very short delay :o) I think i will do wat you propose, create a new mbox with the messages I want then parse it to extract data. I'm more experimented in python but, this is certainly a good way to practice ruby. Do you think it's useful for you, me to send results (scripts) on the evolution-hack list or somewhereelse ? thx Simon rubymail, or one of the other ruby mail libraries may allow you to do what you want.. http://www.rfc20.org/rubymail/docs/ http://www.rfc20.org/rubymail/ rubymail has a parse_mbox call that might allow what you want... found this on the web... might be modifiable for what you want. #!/usr/bin/ruby -w # Split a mbox file into $year-$month files # Copyright (C) 2008 Joerg Jaspert # BSD style license, on Debian see /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD require 'pathname' require 'rmail' count = 0 File.open(Pathname.new(ARGV[0]), 'r') do mbox RMail::Mailbox.parse_mbox(mbox) do raw count += 1 print # count mails\n begin File.open(RMail::Parser.read(raw).header.date.strftime(split/mail-%y%m), 'a') do out out.print(raw) end rescue NoMethodError print Couldn't parse date header, ignoring broken spam mail\n end end end ruby tmail is also very nice. it should allow you to do what you want. http://tmail.rubyforge.org/reference/index.html notes that it recognizes mbox, maildir, etc. I'd be interested in seeing/using it also. reid ___ Evolution-hackers mailing list Evolution-hackers@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
Re: [Evolution-hackers] extracting email to structured text (csv)
Reid Thompson wrote: Tobias Mueller wrote: Hey Simon :) On 18.06.2008 19:52 simon le bayon wrote: I'm a sociology phd student, with few competences in it, and i'd like to extract thousands of email from evolution to a csv or other structured file. I don't know whether mbox or maildir is structered enough and whether Evolution supports copypaste old mails to a new mbox account. But if both facts are given, you might want to create a new mbox (or maildir) account, copypaste your mails into that accout, so that all mails are in the mbox file and mess around with your data. HTH, Tobi ___ Evolution-hackers mailing list Evolution-hackers@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers rubymail, or one of the other ruby mail libraries may allow you to do what you want.. http://www.rfc20.org/rubymail/docs/ http://www.rfc20.org/rubymail/ rubymail has a parse_mbox call that might allow what you want... found this on the web... might be modifiable for what you want. #!/usr/bin/ruby -w # Split a mbox file into $year-$month files # Copyright (C) 2008 Joerg Jaspert # BSD style license, on Debian see /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD require 'pathname' require 'rmail' count = 0 File.open(Pathname.new(ARGV[0]), 'r') do mbox RMail::Mailbox.parse_mbox(mbox) do raw count += 1 print # count mails\n begin File.open(RMail::Parser.read(raw).header.date.strftime(split/mail-%y%m), 'a') do out out.print(raw) end rescue NoMethodError print Couldn't parse date header, ignoring broken spam mail\n end end end ruby tmail is also very nice. it should allow you to do what you want. http://tmail.rubyforge.org/reference/index.html notes that it recognizes mbox, maildir, etc. ___ Evolution-hackers mailing list Evolution-hackers@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
