example of reading the www-talk 1991-1994 mbox archive with python

www_talk.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

# prints the subject lines for the www-talk 1991-1994 email archive

import os
import mailbox

os.system("wget http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2797650/www-talk_1991-1994.tar.gz")
os.system("tar xvfz www-talk_1991-1994.tar.gz")

for mbox_file in os.listdir("www-talk_1991-1994/data"):
    for msg in mailbox.mbox("www-talk_1991-1994/data/" + mbox_file):
        print msg["subject"]