Load email from .mbox files into SQLite
Install this tool using pip:
pip install mbox-to-sqlite
Use the mbox command to import a .mbox file into a SQLite database:
mbox-to-sqlite mbox emails.db path/to/messages.mbox
You can try this out against an example containing a sample of 3,266 emails from the Enron corpus like this:
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ivanhb/EMA/master/server/data/mbox/enron/mbox-enron-white-s-all.mbox
mbox-to-sqlite mbox enron.db mbox-enron-white-s-all.mbox
You can then explore the resulting database using Datasette:
datasette enron.db
To contribute to this tool, first checkout the code. Then create a new virtual environment:
cd mbox-to-sqlite
python -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
Now install the dependencies and test dependencies:
pip install -e '.[test]'
To run the tests:
pytest