README.md

email-db

email-db takes an .mbox file (the default format when exporting from gmail and other services), and writes summaries of your emails into an SQLite database so you can do analysis on them with SQLite.

Build the application

make build_all

The built application is create at build/email-db.

Run the application to build the sqlite database

build/email-db path/to/mbox/file.mbox path/to/new/sqlite.db

To explore

• Export your emails in .mbox format (e.g. takeout.google.com for gmail users)
• Install sqlite (ubuntu: apt install libsqlite3-dev)
• sqlite3 path/to/new/sqlite.db
• explore with SQL!
  • e.g. to see who has been sending lots of emails: SELECT count(*), from_address FROM emails GROUP BY from_address ORDER BY count(*) asc;