Hi there,

I couldn't find any similar question.

I want to download all my gmail emails (sent + inbox) and parse each of them as they get downloaded (without storing them, I don't have enough space) and do some analysis on headers + body (not attachments).

I simply want to scrape all email addresses in each email and keep track of the most recent date I had contact with that email and count instances of that particular email address (to easily find out which addresses I contact more often). Maybe two separate counters for inbox and sent.

Bonus: being able to save the string next to the email when present. e.g. xdg@yahoo.com is actually "John Doe"

I would appreciate some high level pointers to appropriate libraries.

Please note that the key is that I can't store so many emails (not enough disk space), so the process needs to be done without storage. Load each email and then flush it from memory.

I coded in Perl around 10 years ago, so I'm quite rusty, but I hope I'll still manage.

thanks,
alfonso

In reply to Dump all my gmail emails to parse them without storing them by alfonso

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