I often pull emails into a database to analyze them, but sometimes I want something simpler. Emails are typically stored in one of two ways: mbox format, where an entire mailbox is stored in a single file, and maildir format, where a mailbox is a directory with one file in it for each email. My desktop mail application is Mail.app on OS X, and it stores messages in a maildir-ish format, so...
September 16, 2013
Ad-hoc analysis
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