I am trying to help a friend curate 15 years of email currently stored as 6 gigabytes of IMAP data (using Gmail & Mail.app). The basic plan is migrate the data from a gigantic sloppy collection of mails to a personal knowledge base / some Personal knowledge management tool… Right now evernote being a strong contender.
To that end I am trying to mine this data for contact information (postal mail address, job title, &tc), attachments with context. Then I intend to sort / filter them such that I can apply accurate labels to them.
One thing that I keep coming back to, is that Mail.app appears to be able to work out all sorts of interesting things from the text of the mail… like Postal Address.
I am not much of a applescript developer so I am really have trouble getting started.
Can anyone help me get started?