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Re: Mining my mailbox for top email service providers

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Post by pingec »

runlevel1 wrote: post #16
TacticalTable wrote: post #7

It's interesting that this is missing a lot of major enterprise marketing email providers. The author clearly isn't subscribing to things like Best Buy's weekly deal email, or Target cart reminders.

A few years back, one of our (Twilio SendGrid's) developer evangelists created an open source Chrome extension to show the icon of the ESP who sent a message in Gmail. The last big Gmail UI update broke it, but most of the ESP identification strategies probably still work: https://github.com/nquinlan/Email-Intelligence/blob/master/c...

This is a brilliant idea, if only it were updated for the latest gmail UI

Re: Mining my mailbox for top email service providers

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Post by simias »

I must admit that I was a bit shocked when I realized that the author had used javascript for this task. At first I assumed that he was scripting some webmail interface but then I saw that he was using 'emailjs-imap-client'.

I understand that people use what they're familiar with and there seems to be a vibrant ecosystem for JS outside of the browser but it'll never not be weird seeing it take over what would once have been written in Perl or Python, especially since for a long time all I heard about Javascript was "well yeah it sucks but it's not like I have a choice if I want to script in the browser".

Software is eating the world, and the web is eating software.

Re: Mining my mailbox for top email service providers

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Post by paulmendoza »

runlevel1 wrote: post #16
TacticalTable wrote: post #7

It's interesting that this is missing a lot of major enterprise marketing email providers. The author clearly isn't subscribing to things like Best Buy's weekly deal email, or Target cart reminders.

A few years back, one of our (Twilio SendGrid's) developer evangelists created an open source Chrome extension to show the icon of the ESP who sent a message in Gmail. The last big Gmail UI update broke it, but most of the ESP identification strategies probably still work: https://github.com/nquinlan/Email-Intelligence/blob/master/c...

OMG, this sounds like a massive security risk. That nice developer could easily siphon off all the email to his backend server with this little extension. I install almost no extensions because they are too risky.

Re: Mining my mailbox for top email service providers

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Post by volgar1x »

simias wrote: post #23

I must admit that I was a bit shocked when I realized that the author had used javascript for this task. At first I assumed that he was scripting some webmail interface but then I saw that he was using 'emailjs-imap-client'. I understand that people use what they're familiar with and there seems to be a vibrant ecosystem for JS outside of the browser but it'll never not be weird seeing it take over what would once ha…

who cares, it's just a 100-line long script that probably won't be maintained or used anymore

Re: Mining my mailbox for top email service providers

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Post by quonn »

simias wrote: post #23

I must admit that I was a bit shocked when I realized that the author had used javascript for this task. At first I assumed that he was scripting some webmail interface but then I saw that he was using 'emailjs-imap-client'. I understand that people use what they're familiar with and there seems to be a vibrant ecosystem for JS outside of the browser but it'll never not be weird seeing it take over what would once ha…

Modern JavaScript/TypeScript is fine. Especially when compared to Perl, of all languages.

Re: Mining my mailbox for top email service providers

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Post by lettergram »

There’s some really interesting things you can pull out of your email. Having done some analysis myself it’s actually fairly easy to export data from Gmail to do an analysis.

This is from a few years ago, but I bet it’ll still do the trick:

https://austingwalters.com/analyzing-email-data/

Everything is in python:

https://github.com/lettergram/Email_Analysis

Regardless, I encourage everyone to do an analysis of their emails. Cut out the junk, set reminders on when to check, etc. it’s both enlightening and potentially horrifying to discover trends.

Re: Mining my mailbox for top email service providers

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Post by mbrameld »

pingec wrote: post #21
runlevel1 wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A few years back, one of our (Twilio SendGrid's) developer evangelists created an open source Chrome extension to show the icon of the ESP who sent a message in Gmail. The last big Gmail UI update broke it, but most of the ESP identification strategies probably still work: https://github.com/nquinlan/Email-Intelligence/blob/master/c...

This is a brilliant idea, if only it were updated for the latest gmail UI

https://www.inboxsdk.com/ lets you pretty easily manipulate the Gmail UI if you want to have a crack at it.

Re: Mining my mailbox for top email service providers

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Post by jaynetics »

volgar1x wrote: post #25
simias wrote: post #23

I must admit that I was a bit shocked when I realized that the author had used javascript for this task. At first I assumed that he was scripting some webmail interface but then I saw that he was using 'emailjs-imap-client'. I understand that people use what they're familiar with and there seems to be a vibrant ecosystem for JS outside of the browser but it'll never not be weird seeing it take over what would once ha…

who cares, it's just a 100-line long script that probably won't be maintained or used anymore

It would be more readable in almost any other widespread language, and I'm saying that as someone who does a lot of JS.
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