The MBOX file format is a common format for mail servers. The data comes from the Apache public archives: https://lists.apache.org.

Import the inbox

Get information on MBOX file elements:

Define the elements for data import:

Import the data from the file:

Visualize each email in a Dataset:

Analyze the emails

Extract the dates for which the emails were sent:

• Each date is represented as a DateObject.

Extract the body of emails:

Use StringLength and Total to sum the character length of emails:

Visualize the emails

Use DateHistogram to create a histogram for the time of day emails were sent:

Create a Histogram that shows the distribution of message lengths: