The email survey is a collection of scripts written in Perl for collecting fairly anonymous data about your email and returning it to the author so he can work on some nice graphs for his thesis.

It can cope reliably with mail in mbox, maildir and now the format used by Mail.app (although this is a little experimental) and can output the results to the standard output, or to a file or even (depending on your machine) send it directly via email.

As of version 0.3a its ability to classify files as these formats is much improved. As of version 0.3b it no longer requires File::LibMagic and instead includes an internal classifier.

It will even search likely places on your machine for mails to look at if you aren't sure exactly where all your mail is, this deals with the standard placements /var[/spool]/mail, ~/(m|M)ail[dir], some versions of Thunderbird and some versions of Mail.app

As of version 0.3 EXPERIMENTAL support for retrieving data from IMAP accounts is provided, this should be fine (and worked during the testing I was doing this afternoon) however!

Remember: the author can assume no liability for this program eating your mail.

Software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" basis, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing rights and limitations under the License.

Please see the README and INSTALL files for details. The ChangeLog contains details of releases.

2006-07-13 Email Survey 0.4c (40k)