Well, everything looks like it is working, except it is taking forever. I am assuming the parsing is dependent on your connection speed?

Kaobear

It takes some time... depends on how much mail you have, how much memory you have, and how fast the machine is. Mine took about 10 minutes apiece at 75k messages or so.

Gina Trapani

@Gina Trapani: Wow...that you have a timespan for every 75 THOUSAND messages - that scares me. I can barely manage a few thousand, let alone double digits...

thy

@thy: Heh, yeah, two years worth of mail, 76k messages, 54k threads--April 2006 to April 2008. None of it in my inbox, of course. :)

Gina Trapani

Hmmm this is pretty interesting! Knowing me, with this tool, I will probably reach analysis-paralysis, but it'll be fun nevertheless ^_^

ww2db.com

Doesn't work for my email if I use_ssl and there were a few other little problems as well.

Prolific Programmer

Had to install cheetah template system, but after that it worked on the first go. Analyzed 10k emails in a just a few minutes. Really cool little app.

landsnark

I tried it on my mac. After installing Cheetah, running Mail Trends tells me this:

[2008-04-14 16:15:38,300] Initializing
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "main.py", line 249, in
opts = GetOptsMap()
File "main.py", line 35, in GetOptsMap
assert "username" in opts_map
AssertionError

cool..

kd5ftn

It was buggy as heck. I ran it inside a VM of Ubuntu 7.04. after making sure i had the right version of python, it still wouldn't run without an error, until I specified all arguments in the command line. Then it actually processed over 9000 emails and spit out a web page. I don't, however, feel that I learned anything from the graphs. I get a lot of email, most are from my family and my wife - nothing new there.

flatlinebb

Nice! Doesn't this just beg for an implementation using Google App Engine?

braam

@kd5ftn:

I have the same problems as well. :(

Gatewayy

@Brett:

Me as well.

I've got Python 2.5 on Fedora 7.

Oh well, it would have been fun. And since I know zero python, I'll let it go.

KSMarksPsych

@kd5ftn and Brett, I had the same problem. It's fixed by hardcoding your details (nice, huh? ;))
You need to edit the "main.py" file in the mail-trends folder as follows:
Go to line 32 and replace the following TWO lines:
for name, value in opts:
opts_map[name[2:]] = value

with the NINE lines:
# for name, value in opts:
# opts_map[name[2:]] = value
opts_map["server"] = "imap.gmail.com"
opts_map["username"] = "yourname@gmail.com"
opts_map["use_ssl"] = ""
opts_map["me"] = "yourname@gmail.com"
opts_map["skip_labels"] = ""
opts_map["password"] = "yourpassword"
opts_map["max_messages"] = "1000"

Now just replace 'yourname' and 'yourpassword' as appropriate.

NOTE: Python is really sensitive to tabs, so you may need to make sure that the tabs line up with the existing code. You don't need to recompile or anything, just run the command again :)

FlintZA

This is _exactly_ what I've been hoping gmail would implement into their site for months! So I've been trying to get it to install on my Mac (10.5), but I think I'm running into a simple error. Cheetah seems to be installed, but mail-trends is complaining that it can't seem to find the module for cheetah. Any suggestions?

yellowmac

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wmasson

@FlintZA:

That fixed it, thank you very much for the Python assistance!

Brett

@FlintZA:

Thank you so much!

The white space got me the first time around, but the second time I got it right.

This is really cool!

KSMarksPsych

@physician: oops, meant to say "python 2.5.2" not "ruby 2.5.2". sorry.

physician

i run into the same assertion error that kd5ftn received. this is on a mac running leopard and ruby 2.5.2. when i use FlintZa's solution, i run into an indentation error. strangely enough, everything runs fine in a parallels VM under windows XP.

physician

This is pretty nifty, but this guy has put together one hell of a list of email visualizations.

[flowingdata.com]

Majwell

@FlintZA:

It still doesnt work for me :/
I tried several tab versions but it always gets back to unexpected indent.
Can anyone post a well-tabbed generic version of the file? (like having it with 'yourname' instead of course of real names and passes.
Thnx

Wyco

@yellowmac:

I'm having this issue too. Although on Windows XP. Has anybody got this working on Windows?

TBW

XOBNI FTW! Rocks the house. Try to get an invite if at all possible. I sill have 4.

powaking

Dear Powaking: Could you please send me an invite to Xobni? I'd greatly appreciate it. mathprog777 [at] gmail [dot] com. Thanks!

Tricky