Email Mailbox Analyzer

Email Mailbox Analyzer

This skill provides a tool for analyzing email mailbox usage and generating detailed reports.

Tool

email-mailbox-analyzer

Analyzes email mailbox usage by extracting IMAP server configurations from Thunderbird and running the imapdu tool to generate detailed usage reports.

When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when you need to:

• Analyze email storage usage across multiple accounts
• Identify large mailboxes that consume significant storage
• Generate CSV reports with mailbox statistics

Features

• Automatically extracts IMAP server settings from Thunderbird's prefs.js
• Runs imapdu analysis for each configured email account
• Generates CSV reports with mailbox statistics
• Sorts results by mailbox size for easy identification
• Creates timestamped output directories for organized results

Requirements

• uvx (for running imapdu)
• Thunderbird with IMAP accounts configured
• Bash shell

Usage

Basic Usage

To analyze all configured IMAP accounts:

./scripts/email-mailbox-analyzer.sh

Manual Usage

To run a specific analysis command:

uvx git+https://github.com/cpackham/imapdu --user sender@example.com --csv --no-human-readable mail.example.com | sort -t, -k3 -n

Output Format

The tool generates CSV files with the following columns:

• count: Number of messages in the folder
• path/to/folder: Folder path
• total-bytes: Total size of all messages in bytes
• largest-message-bytes: Size of the largest message in bytes

Example Output

count,path/to/folder,total-bytes,largest-message-bytes
123,INBOX,4567890,123456
45,Sent,2345678,98765

Implementation Details

Scripts

The skill includes a main script that:

1. Extracts IMAP server configurations from Thunderbird's prefs.js
2. Identifies all IMAP accounts (skipping local folders and smart mailboxes)
3. Runs imapdu analysis for each account
4. Processes and sorts CSV output by mailbox size
5. Creates timestamped output directories for results

Configuration

The script automatically detects Thunderbird's configuration by finding the first *.default-release profile directory under ~/.thunderbird/. If Thunderbird is installed in a non-standard location, pass the path explicitly to the script.

Error Handling

The script includes error handling for:

• Missing Thunderbird configuration files
• Failed IMAP connections
• Authentication issues
• Missing dependencies

Troubleshooting

• Permission errors: Ensure read access to your Thunderbird profile's prefs.js (find it with ls ~/.thunderbird/*.default-release/prefs.js)
• Connection issues: Check internet connection and IMAP server availability
• Authentication problems: Ensure Thunderbird passwords are up to date
• Missing dependencies: Install uvx before running the script

Notes

• Results are sorted by total bytes (column 3) in ascending order
• Each run creates a new timestamped directory in the home folder
• The script automatically skips non-IMAP servers like "Local Folders" and "smart mailboxes"