I've been doing some mailing list analysis recently (in Ruby), and would be very interested in porting it over to Smalltalk. (I was actually getting really frustrated at the lack of proper debugging setup in Ruby, even though it had some great mail-related libraries). I was looking at thread lengths, numbers of unanswered threads, etc.

Alexandre -- I haven't been able to find a good Mail parsing library for Smalltalk (preferably one that reads the Mbox format natively), I'd be curious to know what you end up using.

As for the download URL -- the link Marcus gave is, unfortunately, in Piper-mail's own format (a simplified version of mbox, really).
To get the actual .mbox file, you'd need to use this link:

http://lists.pharo.org/mailman/private/pharo-dev_lists.pharo.org.mbox/pharo-dev_lists.pharo.org.mbox

(Note that it requires you to authenticate with your mailing list email and password (that you created when you first signed up for the mailing list)). But once authenticated, you can download it with Zinc (or wget) or whatever, and start processing it.

Let us know how it goes!


On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 8:41 AM, Thierry Goubier <thierry.goubier@gmail.com> wrote:


2015-07-06 14:29 GMT+02:00 Peter Uhn��k <i.uhnak@gmail.com>:
The archives are straight text files, in which the individual messages are
separated by a seemingly random number of LFs.

Actually they are valid mbox files. (At least my mutt opened it just fine.)
The separator is "From " line, not newlines.

From followed by a space. Each message ends with an blank line��


It seems there are multiple, incompatible mbox formats.

Thierry